The greatest of Romanian musicians, George Enescu was equally remarkable as a violinist and as a composer. He contributed significantly to the development of music in his own country, although much of his activity centred on Paris, where he was a pupil of Marsick and for composition of Fauré and Massenet. His violin pupils include Grumiaux, Ferras, Gitlis and Menuhin.

Despite early success, notably the two Romanian Rhapsodies [Naxos 8.550327], his work found real appreciation only among a small number of musicians and admirers. Prolific in his youth, during which he pursued studies first in Vienna then in Paris, the demands of performance and administration, not to mention upheaval in his personal life and in his beloved Romania, slowed his creativity so that he was able to complete only a handful of major compositions after the First World War. Yet the sheer quality of these works, which amalgamate his understanding of the classical masters with the achievement of the French and German romanticists, while transcending stereotypical notions of radical and conservative, has seen a gradual resurgence of interest over the past three decades.

Chamber music

ADAMS, J.: Violin Concerto / CORIGLIANO: Chaconne from The Red Violin	ADLER, Larry: The Great Larry Adler (1934-1947)	BACEWICZ, G.: Violin Sonatas Nos. 1 and 3 / ENESCU, G.: Violin Sonata No. 2 (Mordkovitch, Fountain)
BACH, J.S. / ENESCU / PIZZETTI: Violin Sonatas (Menuhin) (1929, 1936, 1938)	BARTOK / ENESCU: Concerto for Orchestra / Romanian Rhapsodies	BARTOK: Hungarian Pictures / WEINER: Hungarian Folkdance / ENESCU: Romanian Rhapsodies
Cafe au lait	CHOPIN: Piano Sonata No. 3 / ENESCO: Piano Sonata No. 3 (Lipatti) (1943-1947)	DVORAK: Wind Serenade / JANACEK: Mladi / ENESCU: Dixtuor
ENESCU, G.: Oedipe [Opera]	ENESCU, G.: Piano Music, Vol. 2 - Piano Sonatas Nos. 1, 3 / Prelude and Fugue / Nocturne	ENESCU, G.: Violin Music, Vol. 2 (Remus, Stan)
ENESCU: Cello Sonata Op. 26 / VILLA-LOBOS: O Canto do Capadocio	ENESCU: Cello Sonatas, Op. 26 (Buruiana)	ENESCU: Complete Works for Violin and Piano, Vol. 1
ENESCU: Impressions d'enfance / Violin Sonatas Nos. 2 and 3	ENESCU: Oedipe	ENESCU: Piano Music, Vol. 1 - Suites Nos. 1-3