Concerto for Orchestra / Dance Suite

Album by Béla Bartók & Budapest Festival Orchestra & Iván Fischer

Concerto for Orchestra / Dance Suite is a pairing of two orchestral works by Hungarian composer Béla Bartók, composed in 1943 and 1923 respectively. Both works draw on folk-influenced rhythms and modal harmonies within a modernist orchestral language, with the Concerto for Orchestra showcasing large-scale virtuosic orchestral writing late in Bartók's career and the Dance Suite reflecting his earlier synthesis of folk elements and neoclassical structures.
First released: 1998

Tracklist

  1. 1.
    Concerto for Orchestra Sz.116 - I. Introduzione
    9:44
  2. 2.
    Concerto for Orchestra Sz.116 - II. Giuoco delle coppie
    6:19
  3. 3.
    Concerto for Orchestra Sz.116 - III. Elegia
    7:16
  4. 4.
    Concerto for Orchestra Sz.116 - IV. Intermezzo interrotto
    4:19
  5. 5.
    Concerto for Orchestra Sz.116 - V. Finale
    9:40
  6. 6.
    Dance Suite Sz.77 - Moderato
    3:22
  7. 7.
    Dance Suite Sz.77 - Allegro molto
    2:08
  8. 8.
    Dance Suite Sz.77 - Allegro vivace
    2:49
  9. 9.
    Dance Suite Sz.77 - Molto tranquillo
    3:09
  10. 10.
    Dance Suite Sz.77 - Comodo
    1:06
  11. 11.
    Dance Suite Sz.77 - Finale. Allegro
    3:50

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