Bluebeard's Castle

Album by Béla Bartók & Pierre Boulez & Tatiana Troyanos & Siegmund Nimsgern & BBC Symphony Orchestra

Bluebeard's Castle is a one-act opera by Hungarian composer Béla Bartók, premiered in 1918. Musically it combines richly scored orchestral colour, folk-influenced modal themes and an advanced harmonic language to produce intense psychological drama, and it occupies a pivotal place in Bartók's output and in early 20th-century opera for its synthesis of folk elements with modernist techniques.
First released: 1994

Tracklist

  1. 1.
    Bluebeard's Castle, op. 11, Sz. 48, BB 62: I. Here We Are Now
    4:24
  2. 2.
    Bluebeard's Castle, op. 11, Sz. 48, BB 62: II. Is This Really Bluebeard's Castle
    5:12
  3. 3.
    Bluebeard's Castle, op. 11, Sz. 48, BB 62: III. Ah, I See Seven Great Shut Doorways
    5:59
  4. 4.
    Bluebeard's Castle, op. 11, Sz. 48, BB 62: IV. Woe! - What Seest Thou!
    4:36
  5. 5.
    Bluebeard's Castle, op. 11, Sz. 48, BB 62: V. What Seest Thou!
    4:14
  6. 6.
    Bluebeard's Castle, op. 11, Sz. 48, BB 62: VI. Mountains of Gold
    2:31
  7. 7.
    Bluebeard's Castle, op. 11, Sz. 48, BB 62: VII. Ah! What Lovely Flowers!
    5:02
  8. 8.
    Bluebeard's Castle, op. 11, Sz. 48, BB 62: VIII. Now Behold My Spacious Kingdom
    6:49
  9. 9.
    Bluebeard's Castle, op. 11, Sz. 48, BB 62: IX. I Can See a Sheet of Water
    6:41
  10. 10.
    Bluebeard's Castle, op. 11, Sz. 48, BB 62: X. Tell Me, Tell Me, Dearest Bluebird
    6:38
  11. 11.
    Bluebeard's Castle, op. 11, Sz. 48, BB 62: XI. Hearts That I Have Loved and Cherished
    2:24
  12. 12.
    Bluebeard's Castle, op. 11, Sz. 48, BB 62: XII. The First I Found at Daybreak
    6:44

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