Bluebeard’s Castle

Album by Béla Bartók & Andrea Meláth & Gustav Beláček & Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra & Marin Alsop

Bluebeard's Castle is a one-act opera by Hungarian composer Béla Bartók, premiered in 1918. The score employs a dark, expressionist orchestral palette and concentrated vocal writing to convey psychological drama through a compact, symbolic libretto, and it is Bartók's only completed opera, exemplifying early-20th-century modernist harmonic language and the incorporation of folk-influenced motifs.

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  1. 1.
    Bluebeard’s Castle: “Megérkeztünk” “We have arrived” (Bluebeard)
    3:59
  2. 2.
    Bluebeard’s Castle: “Ez a Kékszakállú vára!” “This is Bluebeard’s castle!” (Judith)
    5:25
  3. 3.
    Bluebeard’s Castle: “Nagy csukott ajtókat látok” “I see large closed doors” (Judith)
    5:23
  4. 4.
    Bluebeard’s Castle: First Door – “Jaj!” “Oh!” (Judith)
    4:13
  5. 5.
    Bluebeard’s Castle: Second Door – “Mit látsz?” “What do you see?” (Bluebeard)
    4:23
  6. 6.
    Bluebeard’s Castle: Third Door – “Oh, be sok kincs!” “Oh, how much treasure!” (Judith)
    2:23
  7. 7.
    Bluebeard’s Castle: Fourth Door “Oh, virágok!” “Oh, flowers!” (Judith)
    4:39
  8. 8.
    Bluebeard’s Castle: Fifth Door – “Nézd hogy derül már a váram” “See how my castle brightens” (Bluebeard)
    6:14
  9. 9.
    Bluebeard’s Castle: Sixth Door – “Csendes fehér tavat látok” “I see a silent white lake” (Judith)
    4:42
  10. 10.
    Bluebeard’s Castle: “Az utolsót nem nyitom ki” “I won’t open the last one” (Bluebeard)
    4:05
  11. 11.
    Bluebeard’s Castle: “Tudom, tudom, Kékszakállú” “I know, I know, Bluebeard” (Judith)
    3:32
  12. 12.
    Bluebeard’s Castle: “Lásd a régi asszonyokat” “Look at the women of the past” (Bluebeard)
    8:46

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