WINDS AND OTHER SONGS
(Sergiu Cioiu (85) sings Alexandru Mandy)

October 31, 2025 at 7:00 PM

State Jewish Theater

20 years have passed since the composer, poet, author of the Song of the Wind, the Brâncuși Triptych The Table of Silence, The Kissing Gate, The Endless Column and many other successful, ever-present songs, passed into eternity.
And the interpreter of these songs created by Alexandru Mandy, the artist Sergiu Cioiu, turns a round sum, 85 autumns.

It is, therefore, an anniversary show and a tribute to the great composer Alexandru Mandy. Extraordinary recital that will take place at T. E.S.
(Duration: 100 minutes.)

The recital includes songs with a learned sound architecture and dialogues with the guests who accompany the artist, namely Vlad Crețu (voice and guitar) and Lyuben Gordievski (piano).

"From subtle whispers to tones full of pregnance, the ever-young artist (because we can speak of a second youth!) reveals a surprising ability to dose and exhibit a whole plurality of feelings. No less striking is the overflowing energy with which he maintains the intense tone of externalization for two hours in a row. Really, an energy of self-giving and creativity, worthy of envy", 
(Florian Lungu, music critic.)

"Mr. Sergiu Cioiu is a nobleman of the melodies of the past, present in contemporaneity with much style, fascinating with a song largely recitative, "sui generis", highlighting his artistic and human qualities. When he "flaneaza" on the portatives, the "vagabond" Sergiu Cioiu enters into Dream, which erupts around and breaks into frenetic applause.

At Sergiu Cioiu, the miraculous blend of styles poetized on melodic chords - harmonic recitation, funk rhythms and nostalgia of nature, the latter reminding of the state of 'art" of Emil Botta, only that Sergiu Coiu offers it the amplitude of the Zburator, in vivid, optimistic colors. His connection with nature, with leaves and trees, with stones and the sea, which he sings as if they were lovers, consorts of a long journey, places him in a special area of the Romanian chanson, in a certain revived intellectual folklore, with an emphasis on everything that is Beautiful and Alive. And something increasingly rare, authenticity..."

SERGIU CIOIU SINGS POETRY

(Florentin Nicolae Streche, journalist)