September 27th 1978 - August 2nd 2012 The pianist Mihaela Ursuleasa was found deceased in her apartment in Vienna, her adopted city, on the morning of August 2nd 2012. The forensic doctor pronounced a natural death, the cause was apparently a brain aneurysm. She was only 33 years old. Mihaela Ursuleasa received the ECHO Klassik prize for her debut album Piano & Forte last October, and now follows that masterpiece with a brand-new recording. While the first disc took us on a musical journey around the world, Romanian Rhapsody takes us to the pianist s home(s): the title piece by George Enescu is a veritable hymn to Romania, where she began her career. A happy encounter with Claudio Abbado then led her to Vienna, where a scholarship made it possible for her to study seriously. The music on her new CD thus follows the course of the Danube, as it were, extending to Schubert.