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Through her life dedicated to music, the composer Irina Od?gescu brought to Romanian culture a new breath of a genuine originality. Using a complex language, profoundly anchored in the modernity of the second part of the 20th century, her musical works are distinguished by an expression force that results from an inner experience that goes to the listener, managing to convince both specialists and music lovers. This particularity of her language is exceptionally highlighted in the choral work entitled Our Father, ...

Even now, 2,000 years after his disappearance, the Latin poet Ovidius Publius Naso continues to remain one of the most appreciated writers of verses that belong to the ancient Roman period. Considered to be one of the most influential sources of inspiration in European culture, Ovid's work and especially Metamorphoses stimulated the imagination of some of the greatest creators of universal culture in various artistic fields such as poetry, literature, visual arts, or music. In 1951, composer Benjamin Britten made ...

Headed perhaps by a personal passion of the zodiac, and also influenced by the opening science to space exploration and the recent conquest of the moon, the American composer George Crumb (b.1929) proposed in the early 70s a series of authentic pieces for piano grouped under the generic name of Makrokosmos. This series of works is a thorough exploration of multiple possibilities of the piano expression. Composer's intention was to write a encompassing work using all the techniques imaginable for this instrument. I...