Béla Bartók (1881-1945) - Concerto for Orchestra; Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta (1990)
Cover Front Album
Composer Béla Bartók (1881-1945)
Conductor Alexander Rahbari
Orchestra / Ensemble I BRT Philharmonic Orchestra, Brussels
Length 74:11
Format CD
Genre Orchestral; Concerto
Index 65
Out of Print No
Credits
Producer Gunter Appenheimer
Label Naxos
Track List
01 Concerto for Orchestra: Introduzione: Andante non troppo - Allegro Vivace 10:52
02 Concerto for Orchestra: Giuoco delle coppie: Allegretto scherzando 06:57
03 Concerto for Orchestra: Elegia: Andante non troppo 08:22
04 Concerto for Orchestra: Intermezzo interrotto: Allegretto 04:27
05 Concerto for Orchestra: Finale: Presto 10:03
06 Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta: Andante tranquillo 10:36
07 Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta: Allegro 07:33
08 Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta: Adagio 07:33
09 Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta: Allegro molto 07:48
Personal
Purchase Date 11/20/1998
Value $7.50
Store Gift
Condition 100%
Nationality Hungarian
Premiere Boston, December 1944; Basle, January 21, 1937
Period 20th Century
Details
Studio Concert Hall of the Belgian Radio
Catalog Number 8.550261
Live No
Recording Date June 1990
Spars DDD
Reissue No
Sound Stereo
Notes
Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta:
Written in 1936. Commissioned by Paul Sacher, founder of the Basle Chamber Orchestra, who premiered it.

Concerto for Orchestra:
Commissioned by the Koussevitzky Music Foundation in 1943 in memory of the conductor's wife, Nathalie.

Essay: Keith Anderson