GRAMOPHONE — MARCH 2023 | Great credit must go to the Romanian conductor Cristian Măcelaru, who displays real kinship here with the melodic colour and cast of the music and marries it so compellingly to the textural elements. It sounds gorgeous, spacious and...
WARNER CLASSICS — 26 AUGUST 2022 | Violinist Augustin Hadelich has conceived an album that unites three works for violin and orchestra and a piece originally written for solo guitar. For Britten’s Violin Concerto, Prokofiev’s Violin Concerto No 2 and Sarasate’s Carmen...
PARIS, FR — 15 SEPTEMBER 2022 — Cristian Măcelaru, Music Director of the Orchestre National de France, Sibyle Veil, Présidente-directrice générale (Chief Executive Officer) of Radio France, and Michel Orier, Directeur de la musique et de la création (Director of Music...
SANTA CRUZ, CA — MARCH 12, 2019 — The Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music, America’s longest running festival of new orchestral music, celebrates its 57th season, July 28 – August 11, 2019, with a remarkable women-centric season, featuring a series of relevant and...
KÖLN, GERMANY — MAY 14, 2019 | WDR 3 — WDR Sinfonieorchester announced the 2019/20 season in a press conference in Cologne – conductor Cristian Măcelaru was introduced to WDR patrons and media! WDR Sinfonieorchester announced their 2019/20 season in a press conference...
BACHTRACK — FEBRUARY 24, 2019 — Spring seems to have come early this year and this was reflected in tonight’s programme with an advanced celebration of that great festival of Spring, Easter in Rimsky-Korsakov’s Russian Easter Festival Overture. Leading us in an...
NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA OF ROMANIA, US Tour 2019 – Cristian Măcelaru conducting Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis and National Symphony Orchestra of Romania “The Jungle by Wynton Marsalis is heard here for the first time in its completed...
NOVEMBER 14, 2018 — Guest conductor Cristian Măcelaru leads The Philadelphia Orchestra in the full-orchestra version of Aaron Copland’s complete score for Appalachian Spring on November 23 and 24 (more information and tickets can be found here). The following excerpt...
OCTOBER 8, 2018 — BBC Symphony Orchestra | Barbican Hall, London, UK. This evening at the Barbican was partly formed around the idea of musical animality – Beethoven’s propulsive overture to his ballet-score The Creatures of Prometheus opened the concert and Mason...
SANTA CRUZ, CA — MARCH 13, 2017 — The Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music, America’s longest running festival of new orchestral music, celebrates the arrival of its brilliant new Music Director and Conductor, Cristian Măcelaru, with a sensational series of...
NEW YORK TIMES — FEBRUARY 15, 2015 — As anniversaries go, a sesquicentennial may lack the obvious punch of a centennial or bicentennial. (Don’t bother to look it up; a sesquicentennial is a 150th anniversary.) But the classical-music world will take any anniversary it...
