National Radio Orchestra of Romania (Bucharest

Bucharest

Bucharest is the capital municipality, cultural, industrial, and financial centre of Romania. It is the largest city in Romania, located in the southeast of the country, at , and lies on the banks of the Dâmbovița River....

, Romania

Romania

Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea...

) is the Romanian National symphony orchestra.

History

• National Radio Orchestra was founded in 1928 by the composer and conductor Mihail Jora
  Mihail Jora
  Mihail Jora was a Romanian composer, pianist, and conductor.Jora studied in Leipzig with Robert Teichmüller. From 1929 to 1962 he was a professor at the conservatoire of Bucharest. He worked 1928 to 1933 as a director/conductor of the Broadcasting Orchestra in Bucharest...
  
   and is the principal ensemble of the Musical ensembles of the Romanian Radio Broadcasting Society.

Chief conductors

• Mihail Jora
  Mihail Jora
  Mihail Jora was a Romanian composer, pianist, and conductor.Jora studied in Leipzig with Robert Teichmüller. From 1929 to 1962 he was a professor at the conservatoire of Bucharest. He worked 1928 to 1933 as a director/conductor of the Broadcasting Orchestra in Bucharest...
  
  
• Alfred Alessandrescu
• Theodor Rogalski
• Ionel Perlea
• Constantin Silvestri
  Constantin Silvestri
  -Early life:Silvestri, born of Austro-Italian-Romanian stock, was brought up on his own by his mother, his father dying from alcoholism and his stepfather dying when the boy was 16. He had learnt how to play the piano and organ before the age of 6. He played the piano in public at 10 and was a...
  
  
• Iosif Conta
• Emanuel Elenescu
• Mendi Rodan
  Mendi Rodan
  Mendi Rodan was a Romanian-born Israeli conductor, composer and violinist.-Biography:Mendi Rodan was born in Iaşi, Romania, one of three children of Solomon and Miriam Rosenblum. Mendi began playing the violin at the age of five...
  
  
• Paul Popescu
• Horia Andreescu

Current members

First violin

• Virgil Zvorişteanu - solo - concert maestru
• Munteanu Claudia - solo - şef partidă
• Maria Simona Georgiana
• Soleanu Marina Irinel
• Florescu Mariana
• Sas Emil
• Aparu Dana Alina
• Măereanu Alida Patricia
• Pătrăşcoiu Florin
• Cioran Andreea Mădălina
• Zvorişteanu Eleonora Irina
• Ungureanu Ana
• Dumitrescu Ruxandra Maria
• Dragomir Elena Dana
• Drăgoescu Andrei Adrian

Second violin

• Hoajă Mihaela - solo - şef partidă
• Zaiţ Oana Genoveva - solo
• Vasilescu Mircea - solo
• Carpen Crişan
• Eftimie Elena
• Nagy Carmen Daniela
• Georgescu Monica
• Cărămidă Vasile
• Ailincăi Elena Marinela
• Brînaru Oliviu
• Şindeli Mirela Elena
• Vuluţă Bogdan Mihai Constantin
• Kurutz Monica
• Tărăcilă Nicolae

Viola

Viola

The viola is a bowed string instrument. It is the middle voice of the violin family, between the violin and the cello.- Form :The viola is similar in material and construction to the violin. A full-size viola's body is between and longer than the body of a full-size violin , with an average...

• Măi Antal Michel Carol - solo - şef partidă
• Bănică Ginetta - solo
• Popovici Iulian Emil - solo
• Măi Antal Marie Jeanne
• Voicu Simona
• Răileanu Iulia Demetra
• Kabdebo Mihaela
• Facaş Mariana
• Nedelcu Ana Mariana Elena
• Ciurduc Maria Cristina
• Aparu Cornel
• Ţimiraş Marioara
• Irimia Alina Jenica

Cello

Cello

The cello is a bowed string instrument with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is a member of the violin family of musical instruments, which also includes the violin, viola, and double bass. Old forms of the instrument in the Baroque era are baryton and viol .A person who plays a cello is...

• Mitrea Mihai - solo - şef partidă
• Paşol Teodor Cristian - solo
• Niţescu George Alexandru
• Naidin Adrian
• Marin Ioana
• Nagy Viorica
• Paşol Cătălin George
• Postolache Bogdan Andrei
• Bădican Mihaela Carmen
• Popovici Valeriu Alexandru

Double bass

Double bass

The double bass, also called the string bass, upright bass, standup bass or contrabass, is the largest and lowest-pitched bowed string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra, with strings usually tuned to E1, A1, D2 and G2...

• Ralea Octavian Nicolae - solist instrumentist - şef partidă
• Tudor Mariana
• Băran marius
• Roibu Emiol Marian
• Balogh Arthur
• Popescu Răzvan
• Smărăndescu Săndel
• Knihinski Iuliu Cezar
• Iancu Gheorghe Marius

Flute

Flute

The flute is a musical instrument of the woodwind family. Unlike woodwind instruments with reeds, a flute is an aerophone or reedless wind instrument that produces its sound from the flow of air across an opening...

• Papară Borza Graţian - solo - şef partidă
• Petecilă Gabriela Georgiana - solo
• Voroneanu Magdalena

Oboe

Oboe

The oboe is a double reed musical instrument of the woodwind family. In English, prior to 1770, the instrument was called "hautbois" , "hoboy", or "French hoboy". The spelling "oboe" was adopted into English ca...

• Măereanu Marian - solo - şef partidă
• Muşat Viorel - solo corn englez
• Gliga Dumitru Dorin
• Ghita Valentin

Clarinet

Clarinet

The clarinet is a musical instrument of woodwind type. The name derives from adding the suffix -et to the Italian word clarino , as the first clarinets had a strident tone similar to that of a trumpet. The instrument has an approximately cylindrical bore, and uses a single reed...

• Duminică Adrian Vasile - solo - şef partidă
• Petrescu Dan - solo
• Dina Mihai - solo
• Theodoru Andrei Cristian - solo

Basson

• Surduleasa Ion - solo
• Iordache Mihail - solo
• Roşca Ionuţ - solo
• Moisi Mircea Albert

Horn

Horn (instrument)

The horn is a brass instrument consisting of about of tubing wrapped into a coil with a flared bell. A musician who plays the horn is called a horn player ....

• Buzdugan Vlad Andrei - solo - şef partidă
• Gîscă Gavril - solo -
• Amarinei Oţeleanu Ion
• Lazăr Paul
• Borcan Cristian Marin

Trumpet

Trumpet

The trumpet is the musical instrument with the highest register in the brass family. Trumpets are among the oldest musical instruments, dating back to at least 1500 BCE. They are played by blowing air through closed lips, producing a "buzzing" sound which starts a standing wave vibration in the air...

• Răileanu Oleg - solo - şef partidă
• Serafimovici Sebastian - solo
• Dornescu Ilie
• Diaconescu Cristian
• Cernei Dumitru

Trombone

Trombone

The trombone is a musical instrument in the brass family. Like all brass instruments, sound is produced when the player’s vibrating lips cause the air column inside the instrument to vibrate...

• Cenuşer Tiberiu - solo - şef partidă
• Soare Magherescu Marin - solo
• Bucerzan Cătălin Mihai - solo
• Burdun Constantin
• Radu Florian

Tuba

Tuba

The tuba is the largest and lowest-pitched brass instrument. Sound is produced by vibrating or "buzzing" the lips into a large cupped mouthpiece. It is one of the most recent additions to the modern symphony orchestra, first appearing in the mid-19th century, when it largely replaced the...

• Ceascai Mihai Radu - solo - şef partidă

Harp

Harp

The harp is a multi-stringed instrument which has the plane of its strings positioned perpendicularly to the soundboard. Organologically, it is in the general category of chordophones and has its own sub category . All harps have a neck, resonator and strings...

• Ganţolea Elena - solo

Pipe organ

Pipe organ

The pipe organ is a musical instrument that produces sound by driving pressurized air through pipes selected via a keyboard. Because each organ pipe produces a single pitch, the pipes are provided in sets called ranks, each of which has a common timbre and volume throughout the keyboard compass...

• Chiriacescu Florin

Timpani

Timpani

Timpani, or kettledrums, are musical instruments in the percussion family. A type of drum, they consist of a skin called a head stretched over a large bowl traditionally made of copper. They are played by striking the head with a specialized drum stick called a timpani stick or timpani mallet...

 and percussion

• Balea Cristian - solo - şef partidă
• Teodorescu Dan Cristian - solo
• Maxim Ştefan Lucian
• Aolăriţi Constantin
• Anastasiu Alexandru Răzvan
• Srouji Ali Cezar

Some recordings

• CD

• ELCD 112 AAD

Maurice Ravel - Bolero
Orchestra Radioteleviziunii Române
Dirijor Carlo Felice Cillario

• ELCD 114 AAD

Miniaturi simfonice
Orchestra Radioteleviziunii Române Dirijor Iosif Conta

• EDC 251 ADD

Valentin Gheorghiu
Edvard Grieg: Concertul pentru pian si orchestra în la minor, op.16
Orchestra simfonica a Radioteleviziunii
Dirijor: Richard Schumacher

• EDC 273 DDD

George Enescu
Simfonia nr.1 în Mi bemol major, Op.13
Simfonia de scoala nr.4 în Mi bemol major
Orchestra Nationala Radio
Dirijor: Horia Andreescu
Olympia, Londra si Electrecord

• EDC 274 DDD

George Enescu
Simfonia nr.2 în La major, Op.17
Rapsodia Româna nr.1 în La major op.11
Rapsodia Româna nr.2 în Re major op.11
Orchestra Nationala Radio
Dirijor: Horia Andreescu
Olympia, Londra si Electrecord

• EDC 275 DDD

George Enescu
Simfonia nr.3 în Do major, Op.21
Poema Româna, op.21
Orchestra Nationala Radio
Dirijor: Horia Andreescu
Olympia, Londra si Electrecord

• EDC 278 DDD

George Enescu
Suita nr.2 pentru orchestra in Do major, op.20
Suita nr.3 pentru orchestra ("Sateasca"), op.27
Uvertura de concert pe teme în caracter popular românesc, op.32
Andantino (1896)
Orchestra Nationala Radio
Dirijor: Horia Andreescu
Olympia, Londra si Electrecord

• EDC 279 DDD

George Enescu
Vox Maris (Poem simfonic) op.31
Simfonia de scoala nr.1 în re minor (1895)
Balada pentru vioara si orchestra, op.4a
Solista: Cristina Anghelescu
Orchestra Nationala Radio
Dirijor: Horia Andreescu
Olympia, Londra si Electrecord
George Enescu
Simfonia nr. 5
Rapsodiile 1 si 2
Orchestra Nationala Radio
Dirijor: Horia Andreescu
Editura "Casa Radio" George Enescu - Constantin Silvestri
Rapsodiile nr.1 si 2
3 piese pentru orchestra de coarde
Orchestra Nationala Radio
Dirijor: Horia Andreescu
Intercont Music

• EDC 321 ADD

Ludwig van Beethoven
Simfonia Nr.9 în re minor, Op.125
Orchestra Simfonica si Corul Radiodifuziunii Române
Dirijor: Iosif Conta
Solisti: Emilia Petrescu -soprana
Martha Kessler - mezzo soprana
Ludovic Spiess - tenor
Helge Bomches - bas

• EDC 352 ADD

Ion Voicu
H. Wieniawsky
Concertul nr.2 pentru vioara si orchestra în re minor, op.22
Orchestra simfonica a Radioteleviziunii
Dirijor:Iosif Conta

Dana Borsan
Franz Liszt
Concert pentru pian si orchestra nr.2 în La major
Parafraza pentru "Dies Irae" pentru pian si orchestra
Hans Wolf
Concert pentru pian si orchestra în do diez minor
Orchestra Nationala Radio
Dirijor: Ludovic Bacs
Dana Borsan
Frédéric Chopin
Concert pentru pian si orchestra nr.2 în fa minor op.2
Maurice Moszkowski
Concert pentru pian si orchestra în Mi major op.59
Orchestra Nationala Radio
Dirijor: Ludovic Bacs

• IMCD 1109

Perrenial Romania
Ciprian Porumbescu
Balada op.29
George Enescu
Rapsodia Româna în la major op.11, nr.1
Constantin Dumitrescu
Dans taranesc op.15
Martian Negrea
Isbuc (Tarantella) din suita "Muntii Apuseni"
Theodor Rogalski
Joc din Ardeal
Gaida
Hora din Muntenia
Paul Constantinescu
Olteneasca
Sabin Dragoi
Colinda din "Divertisment Rustic"
Constantin Silvestri
10,11,12 Trei piese pentru orchestra de coarde
George Enescu
Rapsodia Româna în re major op.11, nr.2
Dirijor: Horia Andreescu (2,8,9)
Petre Bocotan (4,7)
Iosif Conta (5,6)
Paul Popescu (3)
Madalin Voicu (1)
Soloist: Ion Voicu (1) Tiberiu Olah
Simfonia a 3-a
Orchestra Nationala Radio
Dirijor: Horia Andreescu
Attaca, Olanda

• LP

• Tiberiu Olah

Armonii 4
Orchestra Nationala Radio
Dirijor: Horia Andreescu
Electrecord Mihai Moldovan

• Crochiu pentru un spatiu mioritic

Orchestra Nationala Radio
Dirijor: Horia Andreescu
Electrecord

External links

• National Radio Orchestra of Romania official site