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Electrecord
Electrecord is a Romanian record label which was founded in 1932. It was subsequently transformed into the national recording company following the socialist doctrine of centralization and was the only record label in Communist Romania. History Communist times To avoid disc importing from Western Europe and the U.S., Electrecord was often demanded to release copies of some of the discs released abroad (just as recording companies in U.S.S.R. were doing themselves). Even today it is the subject of many anecdotes complaining about the bad quality of Romanian discs; a comparison between an import and a local copy would be the most eloquent proof. Electrecord had to balance the government's demands with those of listeners and musicians. Despite the poor quality of recordings and the lack of information on disc covers, Electrecord released a number of collection discs of which the most successful were the '' Formaţii de muzică pop'' series (translated "pop music bands"), which b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Constantinescu
Paul Constantinescu (; 30 June 1909, Ploieşti – 20 December 1963) was a Romanian composer. Two of his main influences are Romanian folk music and Byzantine chant, both of which he used in his teaching. One of his students was composer Margareta Xenopol. From 1928-33 he studied at the Bucharest Conservatory (now known as the National University of Music Bucharest) with Castaldi, Jora, Cuclin and Brǎiloiu, and then in Vienna from 1934-35 with Schmidt and Marx. Returning to Bucharest, he taught from 1937-41 at the Academy for Religious Music, and then from 1941 until his death was a professor of composition at the Conservatory. He received the Enescu prize in 1932, and the Romanian Academy prize in 1956. Constantinescu used folk and liturgical elements in his works, with a strong command of form and modal harmony. He did much to pave the way for the post-Enescu generation of Romanian nationalist composers. Works ;Dramatic: *O noaptefurtunoasǎ, comic opera (1934; rev. 1950 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Celelalte Cuvinte
Celelalte Cuvinte (English:''The Other Words'') is a Romanian rock band formed in December 1981 by Călin Pop (lead vocals, lead guitar, and blockflöte/recorder), Marcel Breazu (bass guitar, backing vocals), and Leontin Iovan (drums), while they were still students at the Politehnica University of Timișoara in Timișoara, Banat, south-western Romania. The initial name of the band was "Sonic" when they were still performing as university students and they were one of the most favourite musical acts of Florian Pittiș who also had an important and proactive role in endorsing them to larger audiences. The first concert of the band took place on 13 December 1981 at the Students' House in Timișoara. In 2021, the band celebrated 40 years of musical activity with an online concert scheduled on the digital platform ''vStage'' on 18 December. History Formed in Timișoara, while the members of the band were students there. Having won a couple of song-contests and being invited to vario ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sergiu Celibidache
Sergiu Celibidache (; 14 August 1996) was a Romanian conductor, composer, musical theorist, and teacher. Educated in his native Romania, and later in Paris and Berlin, Celibidache's career in music spanned over five decades, including tenures as principal conductor of the Munich Philharmonic, Berlin Philharmonic, Sicilian Symphony Orchestra and several other European orchestras. Later in life, he taught at Mainz University in Germany and the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Celibidache frequently refused to release his performances on commercial recordings during his lifetime, claiming that a listener could not have a "transcendental experience" outside the concert hall. Many of the recordings of his performances were released posthumously. He has nonetheless earned international acclaim for his interpretations of the classical repertoire and was known for a spirited performance style informed by his study and experiences in Zen Buddhism. He is regarde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grigoraș Dinicu
Grigoraș Ionică Dinicu (; April 3, 1889 – March 28, 1949) was a Romanian violin virtuoso and composer of Roma ethnicity. He is most famous for his often-played virtuoso violin showpiece "Hora staccato" (1906) and for making popular the tune Ciocârlia, composed by his grandfather Angheluș Dinicu for "nai" (the Romanian pan flute). It is rumored that Jascha Heifetz once said that Grigoraș Dinicu was the greatest violinist he had ever heard. In the 1930s he was involved in the political movement of the Romanian Roma and was made honorary president of the "General Union of the Romanian Roma". Other well known compositions are: ''Hora mărțișorului'' (''Mărțișor'', literally "little March", is a major Romanian seasonal holiday on March 1), ''Ceasornicul'' (''The Clock'') and ''Căruța poștei'' (''The Post Wagon''). Early life and education He was born in Bucharest, in the neighborhood of the '' lăutari'' named ''Scaune'' (''Chairs''). Because his father was busy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicu Covaci
Nicolae (Nicu) Covaci (born 19 April 1947 in Timișoara, Romania) is a Romanian guitarist, painter, and music composer. He is best known as the leader and founding member of Romanian Romanian may refer to: *anything of, from, or related to the country and nation of Romania **Romanians, an ethnic group **Romanian language, a Romance language *** Romanian dialects, variants of the Romanian language **Romanian cuisine, traditiona ... rock and cult band Phoenix, for which he is vocalist and guitar player, with more than 50 years of activity. Biography Nicolae Covaci was born in Timișoara, on 19 April 1947. He took up playing guitar at the age of 15 and in 1962 he, together with Florin "Moni" Bordeianu, founded a band called Sfinții (The Saints). 1960s * 1962: Nicolae Covaci founds the student band "Sfinții" (The Saints) in Timișoara. The band wins the second prize at the Bucharest Student Festival. From the very beginning the band is criticized for having a western European ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gabriel Cotabiță
Gabriel Cotabiță (born 1 November 1955, Craiova) is a Romanian rock vocalist. In 2002 he joined a group of rock musicians and together they formed the band VH2, of which Gabriel is a vocalist. He was also a host of a Callatis Festival and also a prominent part of a Romanian mainstream rock scene. He has had a few notable collaborations with artists such as Ștefan Bănică, Jr. Ștefan is the Romanian form of Stephen, used as both a given name and a surname. For the English version, see Stefan. Some better known people with the name Ștefan are listed below. For a comprehensive list see . Notable persons with that nam ... and Loredana Groza. References 1955 births Living people People from Craiova Romanian musicians {{Romania-singer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mircea Baniciu
Mircea Baniciu (; born 31 July 1949) is a Romanian musician, singer, and songwriter. Originally known as the lead singer of the Romanian rock group Transsylvania Phoenix, Baniciu quit the group when they illegally fled Romania for West Germany in 1977, continuing his career as a successful solo singer throughout the 1980s before forming a folk supergroup in 1992 with fellow musicians Mircea Vintilă, Vlady Cnejevici, and Florian Pittiș, with whom he had successfully toured Romania during the 1990s. Following the Romanian Revolution, Baniciu re-joined Transsylvania Phoenix as their lead singer, but, due to frequent disagreements with band leader Nicu Covaci, has performed and appeared on the group's albums irregularly, before finally quitting Phoenix permanently in 2007. In 2014, with fellow Phoenix bandmates Josef Kappl and Ovidiu Lipan "Țăndărică", Baniciu formed Pasărea Rock Pasărea Rock (English: "The Rock Bird") is a Romanian rock supergroup formed in Februa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elena Cernei
Elena Cernei (1 November 1924 – 27 November 2000) was a Romanian operatic mezzo-soprano, musicologist, and voice teacher. During her 25-year career as an opera singer, she sang in leading opera houses in both Europe and North America. In 1963, she was made ''Artistă Emerită'' (Honoured Artist) of the Republic of Romania and in 1999 received the degree of ''Doctor Honoris Causa'' from the National University of Music Bucharest for her contributions to the field of musicology. Biography Elena Cernei was born in 1924 in Bairamcea near Cetatea Albă (now Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi in Ukraine). She studied singing at the Ciprian Porumbescu Conservatory in Bucharest under Constantin Stroescu from 1951 to 1955. During that period, she also sang as a soloist with the George Enescu Philharmonic Orchestra and at the Romanian National Opera. She continued to sing with the Romanian National Opera from 1952 to 1977, as well as touring Europe and North America starting in the mid-1960s. Outs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Romania
Romania ( ; ro, România ) is a country located at the crossroads of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe. It borders Bulgaria to the south, Ukraine to the north, Hungary to the west, Serbia to the southwest, Moldova to the east, and the Black Sea to the southeast. It has a predominantly temperate- continental climate, and an area of , with a population of around 19 million. Romania is the twelfth-largest country in Europe and the sixth-most populous member state of the European Union. Its capital and largest city is Bucharest, followed by Iași, Cluj-Napoca, Timișoara, Constanța, Craiova, Brașov, and Galați. The Danube, Europe's second-longest river, rises in Germany's Black Forest and flows in a southeasterly direction for , before emptying into Romania's Danube Delta. The Carpathian Mountains, which cross Romania from the north to the southwest, include Moldoveanu Peak, at an altitude of . Settlement in what is now Romania began in the Lower Pale ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sabin Drăgoi
Sabin Vasile Drăgoi (; 6 June 1894 – 31 December 1968) was a Romanian composer, who specialized in folk music. His oeuvre includes orchestral and chamber works, film music and operas. Major works *''Constantin Brâncoveanu Constantin Brâncoveanu (; 1654 – August 15, 1714) was Prince of Wallachia between 1688 and 1714. Biography Ascension A descendant of the Craiovești boyar family and heir through his grandfather Preda of a considerable part of Matei Ba ...'' *'' Kir Ianulea'' *'' Horia'' *'' The Misfortune'' (''Năpasta'') 1894 births 1968 deaths 20th-century classical composers Romanian classical composers Romanian opera composers Male classical composers 20th-century male musicians {{romania-composer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ion Dolănescu
Ion Dolănescu (; 25 January 1944 – 19 March 2009) was a Romanian singer of folk music and a politician. He was married to singer Maria Ciobanu. He was a member of the Greater Romania Party and was elected to the Chamber of Deputies The chamber of deputies is the lower house in many bicameral legislatures and the sole house in some unicameral legislatures. Description Historically, French Chamber of Deputies was the lower house of the French Parliament during the Bourbon ... from 2000 to 2004. Songs * ''M-am născut printre Carpați'' * ''Gorjule, grădină dulce * ''De când sunt pe-acest pământ'' * ''Mândro, când ne iubeam noi'' * ''Să-mi trăiască nevestica'' * ''Neuitata mea, Maria'' * ''Au, lele, vino-ncoa (with Maria Ciobanu)'' * ''Face-m-aș privighetoare (with Maria Ciobanu)'' * ''Pe sub dealul cu izvorul (with Maria Ciobanu)'' * ''Pe sub creanga vișinie'' * ''Tare-i dulce porcul de Crăciun (with Vali Vijelie)'' * ''Mare ți-e grădina Doamne, iar eu d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gil Dobrică
Gil Dobrică (; February 14, 1946 – April 17, 2007) was a Romanian singer. He is most famous for his 1979 cover version of John Denver's song "Take Me Home, Country Roads" or simply "Country Roads" (adapted as "Hai acasă" - "Come on Home"), although he had performed a variety of musical genres (pop, rock, blues, soul, jazz, country) and performed several covers of artists as diverse as Ray Charles, Little Richard, Otis Redding and Bill Monroe. Born in Călărași, Dolj County, Gil Dobrică moved to Craiova when he was 14, where he went to a vocational school and became a lathe operator. When he was 17, he started singing at the workers' club in the ''November 7'' Factory in Craiova, with a repertoire ranging from jazz, soul, rock to swing. In the 1970s, he came to Bucharest and started collaborating with the band Sfinx. During the same period he recorded his most famous song ''Hai acasă'' ("Let's Go Home"), a Romanian adaptation of John Denver's Take Me Home, Country Road ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
