Pianist Luiza Borac’s recital at ‘Chopin… and more’
Wednesday, 13 October 2010 , 19.00

This autumn, Radio Romania is organizing Chopin… and more, a series of concerts by the Radio Orchestras and Choirs, celebrating the Polish composer’s 200th birthday.

Pianist Luiza Borac will be the first to give a recital at 19:00, Wednesday, October 13th, 2010, at the Bucharest Radio Hall. Well-known for her sensitive and poetic style, doubled by an exceptional technique, Luiza Borac will play the works of two famous composers, Chopin and Enescu; performing these works have brought her many recognitions.

The concert schedule includes: 12 Études by Frédéric Chopin, Rapsodia română nr. 1 op. 11 (Romanian Rhapsody No. 1, Op. 11) by George Enescu (solo piano arrangement by George Enescu) and 9 Lieder by Franz Schubert (solo piano arrangements by Franz Liszt).

Luiza Borac has been awarded over thirty prizes in national and international competitions, and has a remarkable discography, radio recordings, and TV appearances. The Enescu Collection, containing the composer’s solo piano works, was a true success and it received the 2007 BBC Music Magazine Awards prize and was considered to be the best instrumental record of the year. The Viena Chopin Blätter wrote on the Chopin performances: ’a deep sense of feeling, supreme technique, form and expression... even Chopin himself would have played it this way’; the CD called Chopin - Études & Six Polish Songs got a four-star review from The Times.

Chopin... and more brings together three Romanian pianists at the height of their career. Coincidentally, their biography reveals that they all had to leave their native country, shortly after turning twenty; the same thing happened to the great composer in the autumn of 1830, during the November Uprising against the tsarist regime of Warsaw.

There was nothing dramatic about the Romanian artists’ case. Luiza Borac lives in Hannover, Matei Varga in the United States and Horia Mihail has come back to Romania after having lived for ten years in America. The three pianists have brought home what Chopin may have also wanted, if destiny had given him the opportunity: a unique interpretative style, bearing the marks of life away from one’s native country and language. Chopin...and more is organized by Radio Romania, with the Radio Orchestras and Choirs and includes Luiza Borac’s recital on Wednesday, Horia Mihail and Matei Varga’s recitals on the October 21st and November 30th , all of them at the Bucharest Radio Hall. The Chopin... and more concerts are part of the Chopin Year cultural events.

Translated by Ciocanel Tudor and Alina-Olimpia Miron
MTTLC, Bucharest University

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