George Enescu: Romanian Rhapsody No. 1, Op. 11 | Orchestre National de France & Cristian Mcelaru

George Enescu: Romanian Rhapsody No. 1 in A major, Op. 11 | Orchestre National de France & Cristian Măcelaru | George Enescu Festival | | Palace Hall RELATED CONTENT: Recorded from public broadcast. Enjoy! Please subscribe for more content like this! Cheers! _____________________________________________________ The Rhapsody No. 1 in A major is dedicated to the composer and pedagogue Bernard Crocé-Spinelli (a fellow student with Enescu in André Gedalge’s counterpoint class at the Conservatoire), and is the better known of the two rhapsodies. The essence of this rhapsody is the dance. Enescu claimed that it was “just a few tunes thrown together without thinking about it“, but his surviving sketches show that he carefully worked out the order in which the melodies s