Lutoslawski / Bartok - Musique funebre
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Label: ECM New Series
Cat No: 4764672
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Release Date: 7th May 2012
Contents
Works
Choruses (27), Sz103 BB111Romanian Folk Dances (6) for orchestra, Sz68 BB76
Musique funebre
Artists
Hungarian Radio Children’s ChoirStuttgart Chamber Orchestra
Conductor
Dennis Russell DaviesWorks
Choruses (27), Sz103 BB111Romanian Folk Dances (6) for orchestra, Sz68 BB76
Musique funebre
Artists
Hungarian Radio Children’s ChoirStuttgart Chamber Orchestra
Conductor
Dennis Russell DaviesAbout
This selection of lively Bartók pieces is viewed through the prism of Witold Lutoslawski’s Musique funčbre, written in memory of the great Hungarian composer, and first performed on the 10th anniversary of Bartók’s death. It’s an important, and moving, piece - and one which also led to international recognition for Lutoslawski, Bartók’s Polish kindred spirit.
The Divertimento for strings was Bartók’s last composition in Europe before emigrating to the US. It adapts Hungarian local colour in a manner that documents his despondency and can still cause shivers in listeners today. He was probably aware that with this work in 1939 he was taking leave of Europe and his traditions. He must also have sensed that Europe as he knew it was about to disappear into the darkness of history.
The least known works here are undoubtedly the Seven Songs, taken from a collection of 27 by Bartók. These choruses on folk texts were created for Kodály’s educational programme. Like the Romanian Folk Dances of 1915 (which were orchestrated a couple of years later), they are not folksong arrangements but rather original compositions “in the style of folk music”. Wolfgang Sandner comments in his booklet notes: “They reveal a personality trait that one rarely comes across to such an extent in his other compositions: serenity; one is tempted to call it a sunny disposition, not clouded by social adversity. “Hey, life, glorious life, / This is the life, the glorious life!” are the last lines of the wooing song Csujogató, and that is how Bartók’s original music sounds: joyous, beautiful and pure.”
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