Bartok - Bluebeard’s Castle
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Label: BIS
Cat No: BIS2388
Format: Hybrid SACD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Opera
Release Date: 2nd April 2021
Contents
Artists
Mika Kares (bass)Szilvia Voros (mezzo-soprano)
Geza Szilvay (narrator)
Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor
Susanna MalkkiWorks
Bluebeard's Castle, op.11 Sz48Artists
Mika Kares (bass)Szilvia Voros (mezzo-soprano)
Geza Szilvay (narrator)
Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor
Susanna MalkkiAbout
Balázs turned the drama into what he called a ‘mystery play’, however, and his stylisation of the story throws the weight of the drama onto stage-setting and music. The single act centres on the successive opening of the castle’s seven doors, and Bartók’s music brings across the horrors of the blood-drenched torture chamber, the steely power of the armoury and the glitter of jewels in the treasury as well as the interplay of increasingly feverish questionings from Judit and defiant responses from Bluebeard.
Susanna Mälkki and the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra have already proved their Bartók credentials with a disc of his ballet scores which was chosen as Record of the Week in BBC Radio 3 Record Review and earned top marks in Diapason and on the website Klassik-Heute. Joined by Mika Kares as Duke Bluebeard and his Judit, the Hungarian mezzo-soprano Szilvia Vörös, the team here performs Bartók’s darkly glittering, shimmering and threatening score in a live recording from 2020.
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