National Radio Orchestra - live broadcast
Friday, 14 October 2011 , 19.00

"One day, when I was finishing the last pages of L'Oiseau de Feu in St.Petersburg, I had a fleeting vision which came to me as a complete surprise, my mind at the moment being full of other things. I saw in imagination a solemn pagan rite,sage elders, seated in a circle, watched a young girl: dance herself to death. They were sacrificing her to propitiate the god of spring. Such was the theme of the Sacre du Printemps." (Igor Stravinski - Chronicle of my life).

Le sacre du printemps also represents the highlight of the new season of the National Radio Orchestra that is starting on Friday, the 14^th of October 2011, at 19.00, at the Radio Concert Hall. The programme will include Mondes Impossibles by Irinel Anghel, the Violin Concerto in F minor by Aleksandr Glazunov and Le Sacre du printemps by Igor Stravinski. The concert will feature conductor Christian Badea and violinist George Cosmin Bănică.

Conductor Christian Badea

Christian Badea, a remarkably talented conductor, has an exceptional career and is invited to conduct concerts held in some of the most prestigious concerts halls in Europe, North America and Asia. His impressive repertoire contains symphonic, vocal-symphonic and opera works that cover a diverse stylistic palette. His programmes often include works by Zemlinsky, Schoenberg, Berg, Webern, Honegger, Janáček, Bartók, Prokofiev, Shostakovich, Walton, Vaughan Williams, Britten, Lutosławski, Messiaen, Ligeti. Maestro Christian Badea is also attentively supporting the promotion of the Romanian music throughout the world.

Violinist George Cosmin Bănică

… started his music education at the Dinu Lipatti Music High School of Bucharest with teacher Mircea Constantinescu, and between 1996 and 2001 attended the classes of the National University of Music of Bucharest under the guidance of maestro Ştefan Gheorghiu. Between 2002 and 2005 he studied for a master's degree at the Cologne University of Music with Mihaela Martin. Besides his soloist activities, George Cosmin Bănică was also member and concertmaster of the George Enescu Philharmonic Orchestra of Bucharest between 2005 and 2008, and in March 2009 became the concertmaster of the Tonhalle Orchester of Zürich.