What to do this weekend

At a loose end? BR brings you the best of Bucharest’s cultural highlights for the weekend ahead.

 

GEORGE ENESCU FESTIVAL

Friday, September 20, 17.00

 

HESPERION XXI & LA CAPELLA REIAL DE CATALUNYA

Romanian Atheneum

Conductor : JORDI SAVALL

 

Programme :

BORGIA DYNASTY

 

Artistic concept of the project :  Jordi Savall & Montserrat Figueras

Drama and historical sources : Josep Piera & Manuel Forcano

Collaborators : Josep Piera, Joan F. Mira, Vicent Ros

 

LA CAPELLA REIAL DE CATALUNYA

Soloists : ADRIANA FERNANDEZ (soprano), PASCAL BERTIN (countertenor),

DAVID SAGASTUME (countertenor), LLUÍS VILAMAJO (tenor),

FRANCESC GARRIGOSA (tenor), FURIO ZANASI (baritone),

DANIELE CARNOVICH (bass)

Reader :

JOSEP PIERA (Valencian / Catalán), JESÚS FUENTE (Castilian), DANIELE CARNOVICH (Italian)

 

HESPÈRION XXI

JORDI SAVALL (viola da gamba soprano), ANDREW LAWRENCE-KING (psaltery, arpa doppia & arpa cruzada), DIMITRI PSONIS (santur), DRISS EL MALOUMI (voice & oud), SERGI CASADEMUNT (viola da gamba tenor), IMKE DAVID (viola da gamba bass), PHILIPPE PIERLOT (viola da gamba bass), XAVIER DÍAZ-LATORRE (vihuela de mano & guitar), SEBASTIAN MARQ (flutes), NEDYALKO NEDYALKOV (kaval), JEAN-PIERRE CANIHAC (cornett), BÉATRICE DELPIERRE (schawm), DANIEL LASSALLE (sackbut), JOSEP BORRÀS (basoon), CARLOS GARCIA-BERNALT (organo di legno), PEDRO ESTEVAN (prscusion & bells)

 

Saturday, September 21, 22.30

 

SAINT MARTIN IN THE FIELDS

Romanian Atheneum

Conductor : Sir NEVILLE MARRINER

Soloist : BORIS BROVTSYN – violin

 

Programme :

F. Mendelssohn-Bartholdy – “Ruy Blas” Overture

F. Mendelssohn-Bartholdy – Concerto for violin and orchestra in e minor op. 64

F. Mendelssohn-Bartholdy – Midsummer Night’s Dream (integral)

With the participation of ”GEORGE ENESCU’S” PHILHARMONIC CHOIR

Conductor of the Choir : ION IOSIF PRUNNER

Soloists : IRINA IORDĂCHESCU – soprano

MARIA JINGA – mezzo-soprano 

 

Sunday, September 22

Business Review recommends: Wagner series

RUNDFUNK – SINFONIEORCHESTER BERLIN

Palace Grand Hall, 17.00

Conductor : MAREK JANOWSKI

“GEORGE ENESCU” PHILHARMONIC CHOIR

Conductor of the Choir : IOSIF ION PRUNNER

 

Programme :

R. Wagner – Götterdämmerung  WWV 86D

 

Soloists :

Siegfried – STEFAN VINKE

Gunther – VALENTIN VASILIU  (Bucharest National Opera)

Alberich – MARTIN WINKLER

Hagen – ERIC HALFVARSON

Brünnhilde – PETRA LANG

Gutrune – ALEXANDRA REINPRECHT

Waltraute – ELISABETH KULMAN

Norn 1 – DANIELA DENSCHLAG

Norn 2 – ELISABETH KULMAN

Norn 3 – ANELIYA VIDINOVA

Woglinde – ILEANA TONCA

Wellgunde – ALINA BOTTEZ

Flosshilde – SORANA NEGREA

 

Performance subtitled in Romanian 

OUTDOOR  

Strada de C’arte Festival

September 20-28

Boteanu Street, near Carol I Central Library

 

The Boteanu Street will turn into a pedestrian area, hosting the greatest outdoor book fair in Bucharest. The most important publishing houses and bookstores, poetry recitals, live blues and jazz concerts, book launches, recycling workshops, film screenings, debates, contemporary art exhibitions and workshops dedicated to children will be part of a unique program the organizers from the Central University Library offer book and arts lovers.

 

Bibliocity Marathon

Until September 24

 

The Bucharest Metropolitan Library offers a various manifestations marathon, attractive cultural shows, book launchings, theatre shows, public reading sessions, movie screenings, exhibitions, symposiums, creative workshops, Street Art events and so on that a inspired by the wonderful world of books. Access is free of charge and the complete program can be found on http://www.bibliocity.ro/.

 

DISCOVER BUCHAREST

Guided pedestrian night tour

September 19-22, 19.00

Meeting place: Odeon Theatre

 

During “Bucharest Days”, ARCEN Association will organize a cultural night tour of Bucharest, using the theme ìBehavior, habits and obsessions in Bucharesti. The event will present the 19th and 20th century life of Bucharest and its inhabitants will be illustrated.

 

The night tour will include the following streets: Calea Victoriei, Ion Campineanu Street, Academiei Street, Piata Revolutiei, Valter Maracineanu Street, George Vraca Street, Ion Brezoianu Street, Rigas entrance, Constantin Mille Street and Regina Elisabeta Boulevard.

 

Guided tour of The National Art Museum

September 21 – 22, 11.30, 14.00, 17.00

Cost: RON 20

 

The National Art Museum invites the public this week-end for a series of guided tours in the recently restored historic places of the central part of the museum (the Royal Living Room, the Hall of the Throne and the Staircase of Kings).

Visitors can use the opportunity to visit the exhibition “Bits of Memory – Royal Portraits”. The RoyalPalace aims to recreate moments of the Royal Family history (in the Throne Hall Annex) and of the RoyalPalace (in the Royal Living Room Annex).

 

Walking tour in Cotroceni historic quarter of Bucharest

September 21, 10.30-13.00

Reservations: v.mandache@gmail.com / 0040 (0)728.323.272

Tour available in Romanian and English, RON 35

 

The tour offers a guide through one of the best quality historic architecture areas of Romania’s capital, constituted mainly from Neo-Romanian and Art Deco designs. These edifices were developed for the professional classes, especially well known medics, who built their residences  in the environs of Bucharest’s Medical University, the most prestigious higher education institution in that field from these parts of Europe, located at he heart of Cotroceni quarter.

 

Art Nouveau Bucharest – architectural tour

September 22, 10.30-13.00

Reservations: v.mandache@gmail.com / 0040 (0)728.323.272

Tour available in Romanian and English, RON 35

 

The tour offers a guide through the innovative and flamboyant Art Nouveau current that emerged at the end of c19th, as a reaction to the rigidity of the historicist styles, had also an important impact in Fin de Siècle Romania. One of its notable influences was the articulation within its coordinates of the local national style, known today as Neoromanian, in a similar manner with other emerging national styles in the rest of Eastern Europe.

 

 

EXHIBITION

Visual Power: 21st Century Native American Artists/ Intellectuals

America 24/7

The National Library

The American Bucharest Corner was inaugurated on June 20 at the National Library and two exhibitions take place: “Visual Power: 21st Century Native American Artists/ Intellectuals.” which shows Native American contributions as scholars, professors, museum curators, and writers as well as makers of traditional fine arts, video and photography to document their cultural heritage and their struggle for sovereignty and a second poster exhibit, “America 24/7”, accompanied by a book, the result of a project by American author and publisher, David Elliot Cohen, and American photographer, Rick Smolan.  More than 25,000 digital photographers across the U.S. – including 36 Pulitzer Prize winners – responded to the invitation to take pictures of their towns, families, neighbors and friends for 24 hours a day for seven days.  The best photos capturing the diverse authentic America were included in the exhibit. More details, here.

 

Q.E.D. by Mircea Cantor

The National Museum of Contemporary Art

Until April 2014

More than 1,200 people have attended the opening of the first local solo exhibition of one of the most important young artists to emerge on the international scene over the last decade: Mircea Cantor, winner of the Prix Marcel Duchamp Award 2011. The QED exhibition, the largest survey of the artist’s works to date, comprises 30 pieces. More details here.

 

Oana Vasiliu