Bartok - Concerto for Orchestra, Music for Strings, Percussion & Celesta | Pentatone PTC5186247

Bartok - Concerto for Orchestra, Music for Strings, Percussion & Celesta

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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 Orchestra

Conductors

Rafael Kubelik
Seiji Ozawa

Works

Bartok, Bela

Concerto for Orchestra, Sz116 BB123
Music for strings, percussion and celesta, Sz106 BB114

Artists

Boston Symphony Orchestra

Conductors

Rafael Kubelik
Seiji Ozawa

About

Bela Bartok's brilliant orchestral tour de force, the Concerto for Orchestra is coupled with his spine-tingling Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta in these newly 'Remastered Classics' recording with the Boston Symphony Orchestra conducted by Rafael Kubelik and Seiji Ozawa.

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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