Timeline

Gala performance in Bucharest

Concert at Studioul Radioteleviziunii with the same early-music programme, including carols, performed in Poland

Tour in Hungary for Zilele festive ale Budapestei and the Liszt-Bartók Festival: Budapest (22 October), Debrecen (25 October), Fülöp (26 October), Pécs (28 October), Dunaújváros (29 October)

The previous concert, repeated at the audience’s request, introduced and discussed by the young musicologist Viorel Cosma

Concert at Studioul Radioteleviziunii to open the season of the Ciprian Porumbescu Conservatory, with the programme performed in Poland; at this concert, the Madrigal Choir sings carols for the first time in communist Romania

Tour in France, to mark the French Students’ Union’s International Festival: Paris (17 and 19 September), Orly (21 September), Nanterre (22 September), the Romanian Embassy in Paris (23 September)

Tour in Poland, to mark the “Musica Antiqua Europae Orientalis” International Festival: Bydgoszcz (14 September), Torun (15 September), Ciechocinek (16 September)

Concert in Sinaia, to mark the summer courses organised by the University of Bucharest

Gala concert at the Opera and Ballet Theatre, for the Political Consultative Committee of the states party to the Warsaw Pact, in the presence of all the communist heads of state from Eastern Europe

Gala performance at the Opera and Ballet Theatre, in honour of the visit of Chinese Premier Ciu Enlai

Concert at the Athenaeum, featuring compositions by J.P. Rameau, with the chamber orchestra, conducted by Paul Popescu

Tour in Czechoslovakia, to mark the “Primăvara la Praga” International Festival: Uherské Hradiště (19 May), Uherský Brod (20 May), Prague (22 May), Brno (23 May), Bratislava (24 May)