Bartok - Concerto for Orchestra, Music for Strings, Percussion & Celesta
£12.30
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Label: Pentatone
Cat No: PTC5186247
Format: Hybrid SACD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Orchestral
Release Date: 7th July 2017
Contents
Artists
Boston Symphony OrchestraConductors
Rafael KubelikSeiji Ozawa
Works
Concerto for Orchestra, Sz116 BB123Music for strings, percussion and celesta, Sz106 BB114
Artists
Boston Symphony OrchestraConductors
Rafael KubelikSeiji Ozawa
About
Bartok's at times breezily energetic Concerto for Orchestra was an instant hit on its premiere given by the Boston Symphony Orchestra in 1944 and it has remained popular ever since. It's a compelling work, bursting with Central European folk melodies, North African rhythms, shimmering harmonies and vivid orchestration that culminates in a strident final movement guaranteed to bring the house down. In a darker vein, Bartok's earlier Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta is a powerful and eerily atmospheric work which has been used in film soundtracks to great effect, notably in Stanley Kubrick's The Shining.
Rafael Kubelik recorded the Concerto for Orchestra several times throughout his career but it was this 1974 recording with the Boston Symphony Orchestra that has been singled out for especial praise, Gramophone magazine commending Kubelik's "sheer animal excitement and biting intensity ... with the rhythms pointed to bring out the wit, above all the peasant-like jollity ... This is a performance to keep making you smile with delight."
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