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.