Bands

Tescana Chamber Orchestra

Created from members of the Philarmonic of Bacau, at the initiative of Ovidiu Balan, its conductor, the Tescana Chamber Orchestra is a musical group that has, from its very first concerts, contributed to raising the standards of the entire artistic group from which it was formed and to the enrichment of its musical repertoire.

For this reason, it has attracted the public's great appreciation, becoming very succesful not only in Bacau, but also worldwide.

Founded in 1975 and named "The Youth Chamber Orchestra", after only two years the group receives its final name , becoming "Tescana". Thus, the group is named after Tescani, the place where George Enescu composed most of his masterpieces and where he finalized his work of genius, the opera Oedipus.

The 15 musicians where selected from the string section, forming a compact group, united in their wish to interpret a repertoire containing rarely played musical works spanning from the preclassic period to the contemporary one.

Many works have also been composed for this orchestra, being interpreted for the first hearings on the Atheneum's stage or in Italy, Greece, Spain, Moldova etc..

They have made numerous recordings for Radio Bucharest and for Electrecord Bucharest with which they have made two discs containing the pieces they played that had been composed specially for them.

FAGOTTISSIMO

The bassoon quartet "Fagottissimo" was created in 1999 when the three bassoonists from the Mihail Jora Philharmonic of Bacau: Mihai Timofti, Costica Marcut and Pavel Ionescu, together with George Hariton, first bassoon at the Moldova Philharmonic of Iasi, decided to explore the magnificent universe of this interesting instrument's timbre.

This group"s repertoire includes baroque music and reaches works composed specially for this combination of instruments.

The quartet has already had numerous performances in the country (Iasi, Bacau, Ramnicu Valcea, Craioba, Piatra Neamt) and abroad (Italy, France, Germany, Bulgaria, Ukraine) taking part in various festivals and playing in famous theatres such as Piccolo Reggio-Torino, Teatro Zanon-Udine, Palazzo Magnani-Reggio Emilia etc.

"CONSONANTE" String Quartet

The quartet was founded in 2003 amid the Mihail Jora Philharmonic from Bacau, its members being all instrumentalists from the orchestra:

Andrei Onofrei - first violin
Stefan Epuran - second violin
Mihai Epuran - viola
Vanda K. Multhaler - cello

The quartet has had recitals throughout the country, taking part in the "Days of Contemporary Music" Festival and in the "George Enescu" Museum concert season in Tescani.

The group has also made an artistic tour in Italy in 2005, performing J.Haydn and W.A.Mozart in Camogli, Voghera and Monza.

Their repertoire includes the following works:

J.Haydn- "The Seven Last Words of our Saviour on the Cross" (arrangement for vocal - and string quartet, Hob.III:50-56)
W.A. Mozart- Adagio and Fugue in C Minor
F.Schubert- Quartet Satz
G.Enescu - Piano quintet op. 29
H.P.Turk - Meditation uber K.V. 499
Edi Terenyi - Quartet nt. 7 "Blumenberg"

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12/12/2008

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12/12/2008

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12/12/2008