Immediately after my arrival in Bucharest, in September 2013, I had the opportunity to listen to some concerts played at the Geroge Enescu Festival and I was very excited. In particular, the baroque concerts, played at midnight in the splendid Romanian Athenaeum, had a special charm. I also remember with great delight the grandiose opera shows part of the The Ring of the Nibelung cycle, written by Wagner, at Sala Palatului. I am happy that there will be another edition of this festival, where many world class musicians shall participate. For example, violin player Anne-Sophie Mutter, whom I had the pleasure of listening to in Berlin, Peking and Hong Kong, and who was also a guest in my house. Or Alexandru Tomescu with his brilliant technique, so well emphasized by his Stradivarius violin, that I was able to listen to several times in Bucharest. I am also very delighted to salute my countrymen playing in Bucharest: Christian Thielemann, the conductor of the Dresda State Chapel and piano player Christian Zacharias, two extraordinary German musical ambassadors. I am also certain that the concert of the Berlin Philharmonics shall be one of the breaking points of the “Enescu” Festival 2015.
