Album Description"One has the vividly registered feeling that Mandeal has uncorked the genie's flask ... The work has some sweeping, richly ambient string writing. In the finale a choir joins the orchestra rising to a glorious peak... This music will be warmed to by those who like their Scriabin or Szymanowski." --MusicWeb-InternationalGeorge Enescu (1881-1955) is the most famous Romanian composer of all time. The Romanian Philharmonic Society was founded in 1868. Its conductors have included significant figures in Romanian music not to mention Enescu himself, whose name the orchestra incorporated into its title in 1955. The current conductor is Cristian Mandeal, who studied with both Karajan and Celibidache. He has conducted numerous major orchestras and more than forty world premieres.