Moldo Cescendo classical music festival to end in Bucharest

Chisinau, 25 July /MOLDPRES/ - The fourth issue of the Moldo Crescendo Classical Music Festival titled, Music Unites, held in ten cities of Moldova and Romania, will end at the Romanian Athenaeum from Bucharest on 27 July.   

The 2018 issue of the festival was inaugurated at the Chisinau-based Organ Hall on 14 July. Afterwards, concerts continue in Balti, Cahul, Iasi, Brasov, Sibiu and Timisoara and today artists give concert in Cluj-Napoca.  

The Moldo Crescendo Classical Music Festival appeared in Chisinau in 2015, at an initiative by young musicians born in Chisinau, who were studying abroad. This year, Moldo Crescendo crosses Moldova’s border for the first time ever and gives seven concerts in Romania. According to the organizers, the Moldo Crescendo concerts are special, as before each song, artists talk about the composer’s works, about the atmosphere specific to the period when the concerned composer worked, as well as about emotions the composer wanted to convey.     

The band Moldo Crescendo is made up of instrumentalists Dan Iulian Drutac -  violin (The United Kingdom), Ionel Manciu – violin (The United Kingdom), Ian Psegodschi – viol (the Netherlands), Radu Croitoru – cello (Romania), Constantin Borodin – cello (Romania) and Marcel Lazar – piano (Romania). For the first time ever, the Moldo Crescendo festival has two bands guests:  Ludens Piano Trio from Bucharest and LX Trio from Lisbon. The festival’s programme includes works by Bach, Shostakovich, Enescu, Debussy, Smetana, Cassado and other composers.     

The fourth issue of the Classical Music Festival takes place thanks to more than 400 people who donated to a crowd-funding campaign initiated by Moldo Crescendo, which covered a good deal of the spending for the festival. The event is also backed by the Education, Culture and Research Ministry, Bucharest-based Romanian Cultural Institute and other institutions.    

(Reporter N. Roibu, editor L. Alcaza)