Concerto for Orchestra / The Miraculous Mandarin

Album by Béla Bartók & ORF Radio‐Symphonieorchester Wien & Milan Horvat

Concerto for Orchestra / The Miraculous Mandarin is an album of orchestral works by Hungarian composer Béla Bartók, pairing the Concerto for Orchestra (composed 1943) with the ballet-pantomime The Miraculous Mandarin (composed 1924-26). The release contrasts the Concerto for Orchestra's expansive, folk-inflected modernist orchestration and vivid sectional writing from Bartók's late American period with the earlier Miraculous Mandarin's expressionist, percussive textures and dramatic orchestral colour, illustrating key stages in his development as a twentieth-century composer.

Concerto for Orchestra / The Miraculous Mandarin by Béla Bartók - album cover

First released: 1994

Classical

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1.
Concerto for Orchestra: Introduzione (Andante non troppo - Allegro vivace - Tempo I)
9:21
2.
Concerto for Orchestra: Giuoco delle coppie (Allegretto scherzando)
6:20
3.
Concerto for Orchestra: Elegia (Andante, non troppo)
7:03
4.
Concerto for Orchestra: Intermezzo interotto (Allegretto)
3:55
5.
Concerto for Orchestra: Finale (Presto)
9:25
6.
Suite 'The Miraculous Mandarin', Op.19
17:56