Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta

Album by Béla Bartók & Orchestre de la Suisse Romande & Ernest Ansermet

Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta is a 1936 composition by Hungarian composer Béla Bartók. The work balances austere, interlocking string textures with a prominent percussion section and the bell-like celesta, employing modal harmonies, folk-influenced rhythms and modernist contrapuntal and formal techniques that mark it as a key example of Bartók's later orchestral writing.
First released: 1959

Tracklist

  1. 1.
    Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta: I. Andante tranquillo
    7:50
  2. 2.
    Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta: II. Allegro
    7:41
  3. 3.
    Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta: III. Adagio
    6:42
  4. 4.
    Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta: IV. Allegro molto
    6:38

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