Bart?k: Concerto for Orchestra; Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta; Hungarian Sketches

Bart?k: Concerto for Orchestra; Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta; Hungarian Sketches

Bart?k: Concerto for Orchestra; Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta; Hungarian Sketches
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Composer: Bela Bartok
Conductor: Fritz Reiner
Orchestra: Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1993-08-10
Music Label: RCA
Soundtracks:
  1. Introduzione: Andante non troppo; Allegro vivace
  2. Giuoco delle coppie: Allegretto scherzando
  3. Elegia: Andante non troppo
  4. Intermezzo interrotto: Allegretto
  5. Finale: Pesante; Presto
  6. Andante tranquillo
  7. Allegro
  8. Adagio
  9. Allegro molto
  10. An Evening in the Village
  11. Bear Dance
  12. Melody
  13. Slighty Tipsy
  14. Swineherd's Dance

Free Music Notes for Bart?k: Concerto for Orchestra; Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta; Hungarian Sketches

Free Music Review: Outstanding Bartok
Hit: 5 Stars

Bela Bartok is a very hard composer to record successfully I imagine. There are so many facets to his imagination that if a conductor can't interpret them to his orchestra, then it's easy for the performances to get "lost in translation" so to speak.

Fritz Reiner, who was one of the greatest classical conductors of all time, and his Chicago Symphony turned in one of the best performances of this very complex piece of music I've ever heard. The performance is passionate, technically superb, and emotionally well balanced. This is an absolutely essential recording for all classical fans regardless if you like Bartok's music or not. This recording made me a Bartok fan, because the performances were so convincing.

If you're already into Bartok's music, then I'm sure you own this. New listeners to Bartok also pick up Pierre Boulez's readings of Cantata Profana and The Wooden Prince on Deutsche Grammophon. This is also essential listening for Bartok fans.

Bart?k: Concerto for Orchestra; Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta; Hungarian Sketches Poster

Since its release on LP in the mid-1950s, Fritz Reiner's rendition of the Concerto for Orchestra has stood as the standard against which all other recordings of the work are measured. Even after all these years, the recording remains just as convincing and authoritative. Reiner's superb control of his orchestra and of Bart?k's rhythms and textures is still unsurpassed, even by dozens of subsequent conductors in the digital age. Likewise, the Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta shows just what an incredible ensemble the Chicago Symphony was under Reiner's direction. This umpteenth reissue, in RCA's Living Stereo series, promises to be the one to have, its sonics noticeably improved over the earlier CD release in 1989. --David Vernier

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