Concerto for Orchestra / Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta

This release collects two orchestral works by Hungarian composer Béla Bartók, originally composed in 1936 and 1943. Both pieces combine folk-influenced rhythms, modal and modernist harmonies, inventive orchestration and contrasting textures—ranging from intimate contrapuntal writing to vivid percussion-driven episodes—and mark key developments in Bartók's mature style and in twentieth-century orchestral practice.