The Wooden Prince: A Dancing-Play in One Act

Album by Béla Bartók & London Symphony Orchestra & Antal Doráti

The Wooden Prince is a one-act incidental ballet (a dancing-play) by Hungarian composer Béla Bartók, completed and first performed in 1917. The score combines late-Romantic orchestration with folk-influenced motifs and vivid, colourful orchestral textures, and serves as a transitional work that moves from Bartók's earlier tonal idioms towards the more modernist language of his later compositions.

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  1. 1.
    The Wooden Prince, Sz. 60: Introduction
    4:39
  2. 2.
    The Wooden Prince, Sz. 60: 1st Dance. Dance of the Princess in the Forest
    4:16
  3. 3.
    The Wooden Prince, Sz. 60: 2nd Dance. Dance of the Trees
    4:45
  4. 4.
    The Wooden Prince, Sz. 60: 3rd Dance. Dance of the Waves
    10:33
  5. 5.
    The Wooden Prince, Sz. 60: 4th Dance. Dance of the Princess with the Wooden Doll
    12:52
  6. 6.
    The Wooden Prince, Sz. 60: 5th Dance. The Princess Pulls and Tugs at the Wooden Prince and Tries to Make Him Dance
    1:33
  7. 7.
    The Wooden Prince, Sz. 60: 6th Dance. She Tries to Attract the Real Prince with Her Seductive Dancing
    1:41
  8. 8.
    The Wooden Prince, Sz. 60: 7th Dance. Dismayed, the Princess Attempts to Hurry After the Prince, but the Forest Bars Her Way
    6:48

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