Calendar of events | April 2015

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Visit our website    View online    Forward this email   April 2015 MUSIC 2 April, 7pm RCI London Free IN PURSUIT OF THE RARE: ALEXANDRU NEGRIUC IN THE ENESCU CONCERTS SERIES One of the most promising young Romanian pianists of the day, London-based Alex Negriuc, delivers a programme full of exuberance and discoveries, which includes, along with established works by Beethoven, Rachmaninov, Chopin and Enescu, little known scores by 19th century Transylvanian child prodigy Carl Filtsch, who died at only fifteen. more MUSIC 6 April, 1pm St Martin-in-the-Fields Free AN EASTER REJOICE: ADELA LICULESCU AT ST MARTIN-IN-THE-FIELDS Piano rising star Adela Liculescu joins our popular series at St-Martin-in-the-Fields with a recital bursting with youthful vigour and panache. The programme opens with George Enescu's hypnotic 'Pavane' from the Piano Suite, Op. 10, and also features Franz Liszt's Sonata in B minor, S 178 and 'La Valse' by Maurice Ravel. more LBF 2015 14 - 16 April Olympia Exhibition Centre, RCI London & European Bookshop   IN PRAISE OF BRIDGING AUTHORS: ROMANIA AT THE LONDON BOOK FAIR 2015 Romania's 8th consecutive participation at the London Book Fair evokes, through the authors and the books reunited in a truly Romanian-British programme, the virtue of literature to precipitate great encounters and revelations: inner, cultural, geographical. The programme revolves around two major writers - one Romanian, the other British - who have made their work, each in their own way, the privileged space of major discoveries: Ana Blandiana and Sir Patrick Leigh Fermor.  more LBF 2015 15 April, 7pm RCI London Free DWELLING IN WORDS: AN EVENING WITH ANA BLANDIANA Poet Ana Blandiana recalls, in the company of some of her most outstanding translators and commentators, her exceptional personal and poetic journey that turned a talented young literary aspirant, with a family background that was undesirable for the communist system, into a legendary writer who, book after book, has distilled the tribulations of a national soul hijacked by lies and violence. With live jazz impromptus by saxophonist Nicolas Simion and guitarist Sorin Romanescu.  MORE FILM 23 April, 7pm RCI London Free RADU MUNTEAN'S 'THE RAGE' IN THE CRIME SEASON AT THE ROMANIAN CINEMATHEQUE  As Britain negotiates the fog and mist of spring, our Crime Season continues with another high-octane thriller, directed by versatile auteur Radu Muntean and starring Dragos Bucur, the fetish leading man of the Romanian New Wave. Skilfully employing themes and symbols of American gangster movie, the film depicts the dangerous, violent underworld of contemporary Romania through the story of three friends caught in a bloody intrigue with the local mob. more THEATRE 27 April - 2 May Glasgow Tickets A MYTH REVISITED: 'VLAD THE IMPALER' IN GLASGOW AND BRIGHTON A fresh, imaginative take on Marin Sorescu's revisionist examination of the one of Middle Age's most enigmatic heroes, 'Vlad the Impaler', staged by intrepid theatre veterans Faynia Williams and Richard Crane, opens in Glasgow at the famous A Play, A Pie and A Pint on 27 April before a stint in the Brighton Fringe Festival between 5-10 May. more Ongoing: VISUAL ARTS until 6 April 2015 Whitechapel Gallery Tickets 'THE MAN WITH THE STICK' AT WHITECHAPEL GALLERY One of the most original and recognizable figures of the Paris cultural scene of the 70's and a leading representative of the international avant-garde movement, Andrei Cadere (1934-1978) joins the greatest names of Abstract art of the 20th century as part of Whitechapel's 'Adventures of the Black Square', a hugely illuminating retrospective opening on January 15.  MORE Ongoing: PHOTOGRAPHY extended until 12 April Horniman Museum and Gardens, London Free REVISITING ROMANIA: PORTRAITS FROM LONDON Eye-catching exhibition of photographs of contemporary Romanians living and working in London, by Romanian photographer Ion Paciu. Focusing on Romanians in London, this exhibition of portraits introduces some of the stories behind their journeys to the UK, aspects of their lives and their relationship with their homeland and culture.  MORE Ongoing: TRADITIONAL CULTURE until 6 Sept 2015 Horniman Museum and Gardens, London Free REVISITING ROMANIA: DRESS AND IDENTITY Horniman Museum with the support of RCI presents the biggest exhibition in Britain devoted to Romanian traditional crafts and folk costumes in living memory, a fascinating celebration of our ancient, sophisticated art of making outwear and fabrics. Accompanied by 'Portraits from London', a photographic exploration of Romanians living in London by Ion Paciu. MORE ALSO ON THE RADAR:   19 Apr |  Royal Albert Hall: Alexandra Dariescu plays Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No.1 You are receiving this email because You are receiving this newsletter because you, or someone using this email address, subscribed to the ICR London calendar of events. 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