Alexander Balanescu, the London-based violinist of Romanian origin, leads the avant- garde string quartet Balanescu Quartet, formed in 1987. Before that, Balanescu was part of the Michael Nyman ...

East West Daydreams is one of those recordings that grabs one's attention immediately, only to be quickly and completely overwhelmed by the musicianship, drama and intensity of the music. The trio of ...

When Romanian singer Maria Tanase died in 1963, almost a million people flooded onto the streets of Bucharest for her funeral. A brief archival snippet on the internet reveals a sea of mourners ...

Balanescu Quartet revine la Bucuresti pentru a sarbatori 10 ani de la lansarea albumului emblematic „Maria T” printr-un spectacol audio/video complet, o calatorie unica in enigmaticul dar de ...

Admiration for Romanian violinist Alexander Balanescu’s renowned Quartet has led Vyvienne Long, one of our most idiosyncratic musicians, to invite them to Ireland on a national tour. The Balanescu ...

This was an unusual multi-media event as the music, specially composed by Romanian virtuoso violinist Alexander Balanescu for two very different films by Gillian Lacey, was actually played live as ...

Maria Tanase, who died at the height of her fame in 1963, has been described as Romania's Edith Piaf. A film star as well as a singer, she combed villages for songs, like a true ethno-musicologist, ...

The long-running electronic and postpunk label Mute is launching a new series called An Introduction To..., giving listeners entryways into the catalogs of some of the label's most prolific, if not ...