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...
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...
NOVEMBER 24, 2018 — Praise for Măcelaru and the Philadelphia Orchestra. Philadelphia Orchestra’s all-American program stays real by David Patrick Stearns, For the Inquirer. Each generation of American composers is faced with developing an authentic symphonic voice in...
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...
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...
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 — SEPTEMBER 6, 2019 | For his debut as Chief Conductor, Cristian Măcelaru chose alongside Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 4 the contrasting “Te Deum” composed by the Bohemian composer Antonín Dvořák in 1892 on the occasion of the 400th anniversary of...
New York (July 30, 2020) – It has been announced this past week that Nicola Benedetti, Wynton Marsalis and Cristian Măcelaru have been nominated for 2020 OPUS KLASSIK Awards! The nominations of Nicola Benedetti, Cristian Măcelaru and Wynton Marsalis are based on their...
SANTA CRUZ, CA — March 1, 2021 — The Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music, America’s longest-running festival of new orchestral music, premieres its second-ever virtual season, July 31 – August 8, 2021. Led by Grammy Award-winning Music Director and Conductor...
New York, NY — MAY 21, 2021 | Today, Blue Engine Records releases the first recording of Blues Symphony (Symphony No. 2), an innovative and colossal work from Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Wynton Marsalis. In the hands of The Philadelphia Orchestra under the...
LINN RECORDS — 28 MAY 2021 | Physical & digital release — Charismatic pianist SIMON TRPČESKI performs Shostakovich’s Concertos with the outstanding Janáček Philharmonic Ostrava under CRISTIAN MĂCELARU. “Trpčeski’s art is to probe deep beneath the notes and elicit...
WARNER CLASSICS — 26 NOVEMBER 2021 | Physical & digital release — Camille Saint-Saëns Complete Symphonies with the Orchestre National de France conducted by CRISTIAN MĂCELARU. In a release that marks the centenary of Camille Saint-Saëns’ death in December 1921,...
