”...a spectacular rhapsody on Romanian themes...” - Diplomat Magazine

"...a unique multi-ethnic vision – through declared Romanian, Hungarian, Saxon, English, Jewish, Italian, Gypsy characters." - National Heritage Institute

"There were about ten songs, dances and musical themes extracted from the codex. I quickly gave up on keeping count, because the music was simply captivating. A mixture of folklore with pre-classical music, there are vague influences of Monteverdi, we are on the edge of Western civilization, in Habsburg Transylvania (a stroke of luck, musically speaking). But also a simplicity, somewhat inevitable, generated by the era and the sources of inspiration. Everything is wrapped in an ingenious accompaniment: the strings of the chamber orchestra produce an unusually vibrant sound of an imaginary and huge cymbalom. The comments that the soloist and the orchestra make in turn are modern, but the dosage of contemporary sounds is not invasive, but contained within some limits so as not to stun the listener. I really liked this balance, which we are not at all used to, in a society always inclined to exaggerate language, and if I had to choose one among the songs, this would be the second (I think it was called "Another Wallachian Dance", but I can't be very sure, because in fact its theme evolved organically), of a simplicity that bordered on childlike, but which then developed, without haste and without pride, into a discourse that was rather subtle than crowded with ideas, voiced emphatically. Eugen Tichindeleanu lived in this universe, adding to it a virtuosity based on the various techniques used in the repetitions of the main theme. This combination of Transylvanian folklore (archaic, rough at times, but also tragic) with the restrained joy that Maistorovici extracted from Western pre-classical music was, I repeat, very well ballanced. (...) It is, keeping the proportions, a new Poème Roumain." - Adevarul

Performances of note:

Daniel Rowland performs for Romanian Culture Day concert conducted by Vlad Maistorovici

January 2022, The Palace of Culture Târgu Mureș

Târgu Mureș State Philharmonic

Vlad Maistorovici, conductor

Daniel Rowland, concertino

Vlad Maistorovici performs with Transilvania Philharmonic

December 2019, Auditorium Maximum Cluj

Transilvania Philharmonic

Radu Paponiu, conductor

Vlad Maistorovici, concertino

Dutch premiere under the auspices of the Romanian Presidency of the Council of the EU

19 February 2019, Diligentia Theater The Hague

Young European String Camerata

Vlad Maistorovici, violin/direction

Valeriy Sokolov directs Festival Orchestra

June 2018, Kruhnen Musik Halle

vibrate!festival International Orchestra

Valeriy Sokolov, direction/violin

Vlad Maistorovici, concertino

Estonian premiere at the XXIII KURESSAARE KAMMERMUUSIKA PÄEVAD

5 August 2017, Kuressaare kultuurikeskus

Eesti Sinfonietta

Maano Männi, direction

Johannes Põlda, concertino

Festival Orchestra at the Romanian National Library

December 2016, Romanian National Library Bucharest

vibrate!festival International Orchestra

Vlad Maistorovici, direction/concertino

Dmitry Sitkovetsky conducts world premiere at Enescu Festival

September 2015, The Romanian Athenaeum

New European Strings

Dmitry Sitkovetsky, conductor

Eugen Tzikindelean, concertino