Ferenc Fricsay conducts Bela Bartok
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Label: Audite
Cat No: AUDITE21407
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 3
Release Date: 28th February 2011
Contents
Works
Cantata Profana, BB100 Sz.94 'The Nine Splendid Stags'Dance Suite, Sz77 BB86
Divertimento for Strings, Sz113
Music for strings, percussion and celesta, Sz106 BB114
Piano Concerto no.2, BB101, Sz95
Piano Concerto no.3, BB127, Sz119
Portraits (2), op.5 BB48b
Rhapsody for piano and orchestra, op.1 Sz27
Violin Concerto no.2, Sz112 BB117
Artists
RIAS KammerchorChor der St Hedwigskathedrale
Tibor Varga (violin)
Andor Foldes (piano)
Geza Anda (piano)
Louis Kentner (piano)
Helmut Krebs (tenor)
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone)
RIAS-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin
Conductor
Ferenc FricsayWorks
Cantata Profana, BB100 Sz.94 'The Nine Splendid Stags'Dance Suite, Sz77 BB86
Divertimento for Strings, Sz113
Music for strings, percussion and celesta, Sz106 BB114
Piano Concerto no.2, BB101, Sz95
Piano Concerto no.3, BB127, Sz119
Portraits (2), op.5 BB48b
Rhapsody for piano and orchestra, op.1 Sz27
Violin Concerto no.2, Sz112 BB117
Artists
RIAS KammerchorChor der St Hedwigskathedrale
Tibor Varga (violin)
Andor Foldes (piano)
Geza Anda (piano)
Louis Kentner (piano)
Helmut Krebs (tenor)
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone)
RIAS-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin
Conductor
Ferenc FricsayAbout
The project of a representative, possibly even complete, recording of Bartók’s oeuvre formed a part of Fricsay’s work from the beginning of his time in Berlin. These RIAS recordings feature almost exclusively Hungarian artists for the solo parts: a novelty at the time. In Fricsay’s view, Hungarian soloists were best suited to realising his precise concept of the close relationship between, on the one hand, Hungarian language and culture and, on the other, interpreting Hungarian music authentically. The only exception is Fischer-Dieskau, whom Fricsay much admired.
This compilation from 1951 to 1953 includes all surviving Bartók recordings from the RIAS archives with Fricsay. Even today, more than 60 years after these recordings were made, Fricsay’s intensity is perceptible for the listener as an existential experience – both in the impetus and the positive power of the rhythm, and also in the mysteriously resigned and ironically contorted moments in this music which is so rich in nuances.
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