Béla Bartók: Hungarian Pictures, Concerto for Orchestra Concerto Budapest & András Keller

• Béla Bartók (1881 - 1945): Hungarian Pictures:
• 1 Bartók: Hungarian Pictures. I. An evening in the village. Lento rubato - Allegro 02:41
• 2 Bartók: Hungarian Pictures. II. Bear dance. Allegro vivace 01:39
• 3 Bartók: Hungarian Pictures. III. Melody. Andante 02:22
• 4 Bartók: Hungarian Pictures. IV. Slightly tipsy. Allegretto rubato 02:17
• 5 Bartók: Hungarian Pictures. V. Swineherd's dance. Allegro molto 02:01
• Concerto for Orchestra:
• 6 Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra. I. Introduzione. Andante non troppo - Allegro vivace 09:51
• 7 Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra. II. Giuoco delle coppie. Allegro scherzando 06:01
• 8 Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra. III. Elegia. Andante, non troppo 07:16
• 9 Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra. IV. Intermezzo interrotto. Allegretto 04:03
• 10 Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra. V. Finale. Presto 09:23
• Total Runtime 47:34

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"...This recording (like the entire TACET catalogue) not only captivates on first listen, but invites you to savor countless small details, each twist a treasure that Andras Keller and the musicians of Concerto Budapest bring out as knowledgeably as they do lovingly.

They (Bartok and Kodaly) wanted not only to put the Hungarian into the light, not to serve a mere colony of German music history, but to study folk music in all its manifestations, moreover to serve the fraternization of peoples.

Later they explicitly aimed at "a synthesis of East and West".

This very turn from the Hungarian to the global is nowhere more evident than in one of the last works, the Concerto for Orchestra, which outwardly echoes the Hungarian Pictures as they do the early period of folk music research..." (from the liner notes by Jan Reichow)

Concerto Budapest
András Keller, conductor

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