Alexander Balanescu, the London-based violinist of Romanian origin, leads the avant- garde string quartet Balanescu Quartet, formed in 1987. Before that, Balanescu was part of the Michael Nyman ...

Despite having been a familiar London face for more than 20 years, Alexander Balanescu is Romanian from his boot heels to his black fedora. On his 1994 album Luminitza, he grasped his eastern European ...

When Romanian singer Maria Tanase died in 1963, almost a million people flooded onto the streets of Bucharest for her funeral. A brief archival snippet on the internet reveals a sea of mourners ...

Balanescu Quartet revine la Bucuresti pentru a sarbatori 10 ani de la lansarea albumului emblematic „Maria T” printr-un spectacol audio/video complet, o calatorie unica in enigmaticul dar de ...

East West Daydreams is one of those recordings that grabs one's attention immediately, only to be quickly and completely overwhelmed by the musicianship, drama and intensity of the music. The trio of ...

Admiration for Romanian violinist Alexander Balanescu’s renowned Quartet has led Vyvienne Long, one of our most idiosyncratic musicians, to invite them to Ireland on a national tour. The Balanescu ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

The long-running electronic and postpunk label Mute is launching a new series called An Introduction To..., giving listeners entryways into the catalogs of some of the label's most prolific, if not ...