Bluebeard's Castle

Album by Béla Bartók & Orchestra of Opera North & Richard Farnes & Sally Burgess & John Tomlinson

Bluebeard's Castle is a one-act opera by Hungarian composer Béla Bartók, composed in 1911 and first performed in 1918. The work employs a concentrated orchestral palette and a symbolist, psychologically charged libretto to fuse late-Romantic harmony, folk-inspired motifs and early modernist harmonic language, marking Bartók's first completed opera and influencing his subsequent compositional trajectory in 20th-century Hungarian art music.

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  1. 1.
    Bluebeard's Castle: Prologue: Bluebeard's castle, a myth, a legend
    2:20
  2. 2.
    Bluebeard's Castle: Opening: Will you enter? Look around you
    3:30
  3. 3.
    Bluebeard's Castle: Opening: Here I am in Bluebeard's castle
    3:32
  4. 4.
    Bluebeard's Castle: Opening: Tell me why you came here, Judith
    2:14
  5. 5.
    Bluebeard's Castle: Opening: Ah! I can see seven doorways
    2:11
  6. 6.
    Bluebeard's Castle: 1st Door: Oh, I heard your castle sighing
    2:40
  7. 7.
    Bluebeard's Castle: 1st Door: What's there? What's there?
    4:11
  8. 8.
    Bluebeard's Castle: 2nd Door: What's there?
    2:35
  9. 9.
    Bluebeard's Castle: 2nd Door: Trembling seizes all my castle
    1:54
  10. 10.
    Bluebeard's Castle: 3rd Door: Glittering gold!
    2:17
  11. 11.
    Bluebeard's Castle: 4th Door: Oh! Lovely flowers! Oh! Beautiful scents
    4:49
  12. 12.
    Bluebeard's Castle: 5th Door: Ah!
    4:00
  13. 13.
    Bluebeard's Castle: 5th Door: Look! Brightness has filled my castle
    2:58
  14. 14.
    Bluebeard's Castle: 6th Door: Silent tranquil peaceful waters...
    5:27
  15. 15.
    Bluebeard's Castle: 6th Door: My last door will stay unopened
    1:39
  16. 16.
    Bluebeard's Castle: 6th Door: Tell me truly, tell me Bluebeard
    2:37
  17. 17.
    Bluebeard's Castle: 6th Door: I know what's behind it Bluebeard
    4:07
  18. 18.
    Bluebeard's Castle: 7th Door: Look upon the other woman
    2:37
  19. 19.
    Bluebeard's Castle: 7th Door: Daybreak - when I found the first one
    2:05
  20. 20.
    Bluebeard's Castle: 7th Door: Midnight - when I found the fourth one
    5:22

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