Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta / Concerto for Orchestra

Album by Béla Bartók & Lorin Maazel & Seiji Ozawa

Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta and Concerto for Orchestra are orchestral works by Hungarian composer Béla Bartók, composed in 1936 and 1943 respectively. Both pieces draw on folk-influenced modes and strong rhythmic impetus, employing contrasting textures: the earlier work features spare, palindromic structures and distinctive percussion colours, while the later work showcases virtuosic sectional writing and expansive orchestral forces that illustrate Bartók's late-period synthesis of modernist techniques with Central European folk idioms and his development as a symphonic composer.

Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta / Concerto for Orchestra by Bartók - album cover

First released: 8th November 1993

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Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta, Sz. 106: I. Andante tranquillo
8:51
2.
Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta, Sz. 106: II. Allegro
7:37
3.
Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta, Sz. 106: III. Adagio
7:42
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Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta, Sz. 106: IV. Allegro molto
7:22
5.
Concerto for Orchestra, Sz. 116: I. Introduzione. Andante non troppo – Allegro vivace
9:58
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Concerto for Orchestra, Sz. 116: II. Giuoco della coppie. Allegretto scherzando
6:32
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Concerto for Orchestra, Sz. 116: III. Elegia. Andante, non troppo
7:45
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Concerto for Orchestra, Sz. 116: IV. Intermezzo interrotto. Allegretto
4:16
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Concerto for Orchestra, Sz. 116: V. Finale. Pesante – Presto
9:23