Bartok: Concerto for Orchestra, Dance Suite & Rhapsodies / Ehnes, Gardner, Bergen Philharmonic

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Label
Chandos
Release Date
November 3, 2017
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      BARTOK, BELA
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra
    • PERFORMER
      Ehnes, Gardner
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      November 03, 2017
    • UPC
      095115518922
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      CHSA 5189
    • LABEL
      Chandos
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. I. Introduzione: Andante non troppo - Allegro vivace

      Composer: Béla Bartók

      Ensemble: Bergen Filharmoniske Orkester

      Conductor: Edward Gardner

    2. II. Giuoco delle coppie: Allegretto scherzando

      Composer: Béla Bartók

      Ensemble: Bergen Filharmoniske Orkester

      Conductor: Edward Gardner

    3. III. Elegia: Andante non troppo

      Composer: Béla Bartók

      Ensemble: Bergen Filharmoniske Orkester

      Conductor: Edward Gardner

    4. IV. Intermezzo interrotto: Allegretto

      Composer: Béla Bartók

      Ensemble: Bergen Filharmoniske Orkester

      Conductor: Edward Gardner

    5. V. Finale: Presto

      Composer: Béla Bartók

      Ensemble: Bergen Filharmoniske Orkester

      Conductor: Edward Gardner

    6. I. Lassu: Moderato -

      Composer: Béla Bartók

      Ensemble: Bergen Filharmoniske Orkester

      Performer: James Ehnes, Hans-Kristian Kjos Sørensen

      Conductor: Edward Gardner

    7. II. Friss: Allegro moderato (first version)

      Composer: Béla Bartók

      Ensemble: Bergen Filharmoniske Orkester

      Performer: James Ehnes, Hans-Kristian Kjos Sørensen

      Conductor: Edward Gardner

    8. II. Friss: Allegro moderato (second version)

      Composer: Béla Bartók

      Ensemble: Bergen Filharmoniske Orkester

      Performer: James Ehnes, Hans-Kristian Kjos Sørensen

      Conductor: Edward Gardner

    9. I. Lassu: Moderato -

      Composer: Béla Bartók

      Ensemble: Bergen Filharmoniske Orkester

      Performer: James Ehnes

      Conductor: Edward Gardner

    10. II. Friss: Allegro moderato -

      Composer: Béla Bartók

      Ensemble: Bergen Filharmoniske Orkester

      Performer: James Ehnes

      Conductor: Edward Gardner

    11. I. Moderato -

      Composer: Béla Bartók

      Ensemble: Bergen Filharmoniske Orkester

      Conductor: Edward Gardner

    12. II. Allegro molto -

      Composer: Béla Bartók

      Ensemble: Bergen Filharmoniske Orkester

      Conductor: Edward Gardner

    13. III. Allegro vivace -

      Composer: Béla Bartók

      Ensemble: Bergen Filharmoniske Orkester

      Conductor: Edward Gardner

    14. IV. Molto tranquillo -

      Composer: Béla Bartók

      Ensemble: Bergen Filharmoniske Orkester

      Conductor: Edward Gardner

    15. V. Commodo

      Composer: Béla Bartók

      Ensemble: Bergen Filharmoniske Orkester

      Conductor: Edward Gardner

    16. VI. Finale -

      Composer: Béla Bartók

      Ensemble: Bergen Filharmoniske Orkester

      Conductor: Edward Gardner


Four years after a highly successful Bartok recording with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Edward Gardner here returns to the composer on SACD, with James Ehnes as solo violinist, and his Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. The central piece in this recording is the Concerto for Orchestra, the largest work that Bartok completed during the last five years of his life and described by the composer, in the program notes for its 1944 premiere, as ‘a gradual transition from the sternness of the first movement and the lugubrious death-song of the third, to the life-assertion of the last one.’ It is joined by the Dance Suite, the immediate predecessor, among Bartok’s few works for full orchestra without a soloist, of the Concerto for Orchestra, though by more than two decades; and by the violin Rhapsodies, the colorful folk influences of which are revealed by James Ehnes, a specialist in the repertoire, who already has recorded the complete sonatas as well as the concertos for violin and for viola to critical acclaim.