5 renowned radio symphony orchestras at the second edition of RadiRo!

Between September 20th – 27th, 2014, Bucharest will be endowed once again with the enthralling fervour and artistic vigour of a vivid European capital at the 2nd edition of RadiRo – International Festival of Radio Orchestras!

Radio România, 05.09.2014, 21:08

For an entire week, at the end of September, the concert hall and the ‘sound podium’ will join together at the RadiRo Festival, a unique musical event in Europe, which will bring in Bucharest 5 radio orchestras, along with internationally renowned soloists and conductors!

The Festival is organized by Radio Romania, a friend and devoted supporter of classical music, who, ever since 1928, when the first radio signal has been sent into ether, continues to provide to its listeners both musical jewels broadcast on radio waves and live musical productions performed at the Romanian Radio Hall.

And if the National Radio has brought to the Romanians’ houses, across decades, the magic baton of Herbert von Karajan, the violin of Yehudi Menuhin or live broadcasts from George Enescu International Festival or from various first-rate European musical events, RadiRo is pleased to invite you, at its 2nd edition, to step into the concert hall and listen live to outstanding orchestras and musicians whom the Romanian public has mostly had the privilege to listen only on the radio by now.

In 2012, the first edition of RadiRo has brought on the Romanian musical stage prestigious symphony ensembles such as BBC Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI and Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France.

This year, at its 2nd edition, the 8 days of Festival will see performing in Bucharest the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Stuttgart Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre National de France and the Romanian Radio National Orchestra, under the baton of world acclaimed conductors: Joshua Weilerstein, Ondrej Lenárd, Stéphane Denève, Case Scaglione, Vassily Sinaisky, Tiberiu Soare and Cristian Mandeal.

Virtuosos of a refined artistic sensibility will perform during the RadiRo evenings: pianist Jonathan Biss, soprano Katarina Jovanovic, pianist Jan Simon, together with violinists Nikolaj Znaider and Vadim Gluzman, mezzo-soprano Ruxandra Donose, pianist Horia Mihail, and violinist Alexandru Tomescu.

The remarkable personality of the honorary artistic director of the Festival, conductor Cristian Mandeal, brings about a substantial added value and prestige to the RadiRo Festival. With hundreds of concerts conducted in 35 countries across 4 continents, performing in the company of the most reputed contemporary artists, Cristian Mandeal is today among the great Romanian conductors who belong not only to Romania, but to the entire world. With a peerless refinement and artistic generosity, Cristian Mandeal sparks off in the concerts he conducts — and the audience promptly feels it every time! — a true communication ‘chemistry’ both with the orchestra and the public.

It is precisely the same energy flow that RadiRo Festival aims to convey, so that music may travel freely in the vivid space of the concert hall! You are therefore invited to make a step forward in the journey we’ve started two years ago, so as to enjoy together an event which celebrates the harmony, extraordinary vitality and timeless verity of classical music!

Cristian Mandeal, Honorary Artistic Director of RadiRo 2014: “Now at its second edition, RadiRo — The International Festival of Radio Orchestras has won fast a well deserved reputation in the local cultural landscape. Equally welcome is the international dimension of the event, hosting from one edition to another renowned European orchestras, with the same specific profile and the same educational and promotional aims, which are brought together in a single space and time so as to give their best, bring an outstanding original approach and engender new evaluations, comparisons and competitions, like true barometers of a higher artistic European climate from where the competitive fair play spirit cannot miss by any means.”

Jan Simon, pianist, director of the Czech Radio ensembles, festivals and competitions: “I think that the organization of this Festival is a splendid idea. We have tried a similar project in Prague 5 years ago at the Radio Autumn Festival. We have invited at that time the radio symphony orchestras from Leipzig, Hilversum and Budapest. But we were not able to earn a sponsorship for the second edition. I am glad that Radio Romania is continuing this idea and especially at such a level! The second edition of RadiRo International Festival will see performing in Bucharest Orchestre National de France, Vassily Sinaisky and Nikolaj Znaider. You have organized an exceptional festival!”

Oltea Şerban — Pârâu, Director Radio Romania Media Cultural Centre: “What makes this Festival unique is that it hosts exclusively radio orchestras and not philharmonic, opera or other kinds of symphony orchestras. It is important because the public radio has generated a musical movement and all across Europe public radio broadcasters hold still this double mission, a media and a cultural one, which is highly supported by their orchestras and choirs. Romania takes pride in having a powerful radio component in this field, with a symphony and a chamber orchestra, an academic choir, a childrens choir, a jazz and a folk orchestra, therefore we are very well represented among the other European public radio broadcasters.”

Producer and organizer: Radio Romania

Co-producer: TVR

Under the patronage of the Romanian Government

Sponsors: Vodafone

Official transport: Dacia

With the support of: Banca Transilvania, Borsec, ARCUB, Catering Romania, Librăriile Cărtureşti

Media partners:

Adevărul, Dilema Veche, Observator Cultural, Caţavencii, Şapte Seri, Business Review, Suplimentul de cultură, Agenţia de carte, Ziare.com, Actualitatea Muzicală, Ziarul Metropolis, Librăriile Humanitas

*For further details about the program and guests of this edition of the Festival please visit the Festivals web page: www.radirofestival.ro and the Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/radiro.festival.

*Tickets to RadiRo 2014 are available on www.bilete.ro, at all offices of the Romanian Post Company, in the Inmedio Stores bearing the Bilete.ro logo, in the Germanos stores as well as at the Romanian Radio Hall Box Office.