The first London festival
of Romanian composers

• Produced by pianist Anda Anastasescu and The London Schubert Players

• Twenty UK and Two World Premières

• Works (1902 – 2005) by Enescu, Silvestri, Lipatti, Bentoiu, Vieru, Andricu, Ciortea, Rogalski, Basacopol, Odagescu, Spanu, Dinescu, Popovici, Herea and Miereanu.

Romanian Institute, 1 Belgrave Square SW1, 7pm

Selected orchestral and chamber music works by 10 Romanian composers.
Tickets: £12 include reception with traditional food and wine and the festival’s brochure. Groups £10
Box Office: 020 7603 1396

St Peter’s, Kensington Park Road, W11 at 4pm and 5pm

Marius Herea Overture: Vlad, Prince of Wallachia – the real Dracula
Irina Odagescu Youth everlasting and Life without End for narrator and orchestra, on a Romanian fairy tale
Luminita Spanu Pictures from the Carpathians
Doru Popovici Romanian Dance
Conductor Florin Totan
Tickets: £5
Box Office 020 7603 1396

St Martin-in-the-Fields Trafalgar Square, 7.30pm

Romanian Christmas Carols
Conductors John Landor and Ion Minoiu
Tickets: £22, £18, £14, £10, £6
www.smitf.org
Box Office: 020 7839 8362

Wigmore Hall, 36 Wigmore St W1 at 7.30pm

Piano Recital: Anda Anastasescu
Silvestri Sonata quasi una fantasia
Beethoven Sonata
Op 31 No. 2 The Tempest
Silvestri Chants nostalgiques
Enescu Suite Op 10 Des cloches sonores
Chopin Grandes Valses Brillantes Op 34 No. 3 and No. 1
Valse Op. posth in E minor
Scherzo No. 1
Tickets: £15, £13, £10
www.wigmore-hall.org.uk
Box Office 020 7935 2141

Romanian Institute, 1 Belgrave Square SW1 at 7pm

Silvestri String Quartet
Pascal Bentoiu String Quartet
Enescu Aria and Scherzino
Tudor Ciortea Piano Quintet
Tickets: £8 include a glass of wine. Groups £6
Box Office: 020 7603 1396

Purcell Room, South Bank Centre, Royal Festival Hall at 7.30pm

Saint-Saëns Septet for Piano, Trumpet and Strings
Anatol Vieru Clarinet Quintet
Vieru Eratosthenes’ Sieve for String Quartet, Piano, Clarinet
Enescu Octet for Strings
Conductor Hu Kun
Piano Anda Anastasescu and Andrei Vieru
Clarinet Nicholas Carpenter
Trumpet Ciprian Ilie
Tickets: £13, £10
www.rfh.org.uk
Box Office 0870 382 8000