Mrs. Liliana Staicu, Radio Musical Season starts on Friday, October 11th, when the audience is reunited with Radio National Orchestra and conductor Sascha Goetzel. Iwould like to ask you to give us more details about this first concert and about what other programs the Radio ensambles offer.

Indeed, Friday, October 11th, marks the start of the 96th season of Radio România Orchestras and Choirs with Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, interpreted to commemorate 200 years since its premiere. The performers I have invited- together with conductor Sascha Goetzel, the Radio National Orchestra and the Academic Radio Choir conducted by Ciprian Țuțu - are soprano Luiza Fatyol, mezzo-soprano Ramona Zaharia, tenor Remus Alăzăroae and bass Adrian Sâmpetrean. It is a selection of soloists considered to be the most suitable to perform this work, both from our point of view and that of the audience, since this concert is already sold-out. So, those who would like to listen to this concert can do so through live broadcast at Radio România Muzical and Radio România Cultural, which is also the case with all the other concerts taking place during this season.

Then, on October 16th, the Radio Chamber Orchestra opens its season with a concert featuring David Grimal, one of the most important violinists of our time, the one who led the Les dissonance ensemble. The following day, on October 17th, the Radio Big Band, together with Alice Francis, opens its season as well with an electro swing program, The Magic of Electro Swing, and, on October 27th - the Folk Music Orchestra.

Other proposals of the season are symphonies, such as Edward Elgar's First Symphony, which is presented for the first time on the stage of Sala Radio, then the Wynton Marsalis'Fourth Symphony, The Jungle, with Radio National Orchestra and Radio Big Band conducted by Gabriel Bebeșelea, symphonies by Ceaikovski, then César Franck's Symphony and other similar works by Beethoven, vocal-symphonic opuses like Rossini's Little solemn Mass or Beethoven's Fantasy for soloists, chorus and orchestra, but also fragments from Bach's Christmas Oratorio, the last of whichperformed by the Radio Chamber Orchestra and, of course, the Academic Radio Choir. Among the artists who will be on the stage of Sala Radio during these first three months of the season, I would like to mention pianists Teo Gheorghiu, Cadmiel Boțac, Alexandra Silocea and Hyung-Ki Joo, member of the famous duo Igudesman& Joo. Violinist Maria Marica - the one who won the 2022 edition of the Enescu Contest-, cellist Jan Sekaci, harpist Maria Bîldea, but also Simona Strungaru, whom we shall see both as the conductor of the Radio Big Band and as a soloist and conductor of the Radio Chamber Orchestra, will also be there. And, naturally, Alexandru Tomescu and Răzvan Suma, the soloists of the radio, will also be there.

What is more, the Radio orchestras' website has now been improved. What are the new features that the audience of the Sala Radio can benefit from by accessing this new website?

As you have mentioned, on the occasion of the season opening, we also launched the Sala Radio website, where all information related to the Radio Orchestras and Choirs season, as well as anything that the general public has to know about Sala Radio and modalities to rent it in order to organize events, can be found. Furthermore, the new www.salaradio.ro website offers a better user experience, enabling the spectator to faster identify the opportunities presented in the offer provided by Sala Radio and, at the same time, making the purchase of tickets and subscriptions easier through the platform which allows this service.