Music For Strings Percussion And Celeste / Divertimento

Album by Béla Bartók & Academy of St Martin in the Fields & Sir Neville Marriner

Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta / Divertimento is a pairing of two orchestral works by Hungarian composer Béla Bartók, composed in 1936 and 1939. The pieces juxtapose rigorous contrapuntal string writing with vivid percussion colour and bell-like celesta textures, blending folk-influenced motifs, modernist dissonance and classical forms and representing a late, introspective phase in Bartók's output as he refined an austere, dramatic orchestral language.
First released: 1970

Tracklist

  1. 1.
    Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta, BB 114: I. Andante tranquillo
    8:05
  2. 2.
    Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta, BB 114: II. Allegro
    7:16
  3. 3.
    Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta, BB 114: III. Adagio
    8:33
  4. 4.
    Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta, BB 114: IV. Finale: Allegro molto
    7:16
  5. 5.
    Divertimento, BB 118: I. Allegro non troppo
    8:40
  6. 6.
    Divertimento, BB 118: II. Molto adagio
    8:17
  7. 7.
    Divertimento, BB 118: III. Allegro assai
    7:04

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