The Miraculous Mandarin / Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta

Album by Béla Bartók & The Philadelphia Orchestra & Eugene Ormandy

The Miraculous Mandarin / Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta is a compilation of two orchestral works by Hungarian composer Béla Bartók, composed in 1924 and 1936 respectively. The pairing contrasts the earlier work's urban, expressionistic dissonance and driving rhythms with the later piece's concentrated nocturnal string textures, inventive percussion colours and contrapuntal structures, illustrating Bartók's development from visceral theatrical writing to a more abstract, formally rigorous modernism within 20th-century orchestral music.

The Miraculous Mandarin / Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta by Bartók - album cover

First released: 1985

Classical

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1.
The Miraculous Mandarin Suite, Op. 19, Sz. 73, BB 82
20:07
2.
Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta, Sz. 106, BB 114: I. Andante tranquillo
7:48
3.
Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta, Sz. 106, BB 114: II. Allegro
7:34
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Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta, Sz. 106, BB 114: III. Adagio
7:07
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Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta, Sz. 106, BB 114: IV. Allegro molto
7:30