Bartok: Concerto for Orchestra; Music for Strings, Percussion & Celesta / Alsop, Baltimore Symphony

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Béla Bartók’s Concerto for Orchestra, one of his greatest works, was written in the United States after the composer was forced to flee Hungary during World War II. It is not only a brilliant display vehicle for each instrumental section but a work of considerable structural ingenuity that unites classical forms and sonorities with the pungency of folk rhythms and harmonies. Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta explores darker moods through a score of marvellously poised symmetry. This release follows Marin Alsop’s ‘riveting’ (Gramophone) Baltimore Symphony recordings of Dvorák’s symphonies.

REVIEW:

Marin Alsop leads a splendid performance of the oft-recorded Concerto for Orchestra, full of character, whether in the jocular “games of pairs” second movement, the ensuing spooky elegy, or the finale that begins (seemingly) a touch reserved but takes off like a shot in the coda. It’s a memorable and wholly successful effort, excellently engineered to boot.

– ClassicsToday.com (D. Hurwitz)



Product Description:


  • Catalog Number: 8572486


  • UPC: 747313248674


  • Label: Naxos


  • Composer: Béla Bartók


  • Conductor: Marin Alsop


  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Baltimore Symphony Orchestra



Works:


  1. Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta, Sz 106

    Composer: Béla Bartók

    Ensemble: Baltimore Symphony Orchestra

    Conductor: Marin Alsop


  2. Concerto for Orchestra, Sz 116

    Composer: Béla Bartók

    Ensemble: Baltimore Symphony Orchestra

    Conductor: Marin Alsop