April 2014 Newsletter | | MUSIC 3 April, 7 pm ICR London free | SONATA IN SOUND AND WORD Virtuoso pianist Matei Șerban Rogoz makes his UK debut in the Enescu Concerts Series with an exceptional reading of some of the scores that have made the piano king of all musical instruments. Before the evening's programme, featuring works by Beethoven, Prokofiev and Enescu, the musician, also an accomplished music historian, will introduce his latest book, The Piano Sonata: The 18th and 19th Centuries. more | MUSIC 3 April, 8 pm Cafe OTO, London | A MUSICAL SOUL FOR ELECTRONIC MACHINES With the support of the Romanian Cultural Institute in London, spectralist duo Iancu Dumitrescu and Ana-Maria Avram returns to Cafe OTO for another enthralling show of avant-garde musical experiments. MORE | LITERATURE 8-10 April Earls Court One & other locations | ROMANIA AT THE LONDON BOOK FAIR 2014: ALL IS OLD AND NEW IS ALL Our programme at one of the world's most consequential congregations in the realm of books gravitates around the age-old interplay of cultural tradition and change. The events, unfolding at Earls Court, Europe House, the European Bookshop as well as our home at 1 Belgrave Square, will epitomise this fruitful dialectic, evoked with laconic expressivity by Romania's greatest poet, Mihai Eminescu, in the verse borrowed as the motto of our presence at LBF 2014. MORE | MUSIC 9 April, 7 pm ICR London free | LBF 2014: ANCIENT DELIS - TREI PARALE ENSEMBLE IN CONCERT Engaged for years in a passionate effort to revive Romanian court and urban music of the 18th and early 19th centuries, TREI PARALE, a group of versatile musicians playing old instruments, has succeeded in rescuing some of the juiciest scores of this forgotten, yet marvellous tradition. The mellow, jaunty melodies, which provided the background of a lazy life of Oriental indulgence, constitute the musical ingredient of our programme at LBF 2014. MORE | DESIGN 9 April, 7 pm ICR London | LBF 2014: 'The ALLURE OF TYPOGRAPHY' | |
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