Description
Bartok - Concerto For Orchestra, Dance Suite / The London Symphony Orchestra, Georg Solti / Decca LP Stereo / SXL 6212
The Concerto for Orchestra, Sz. 116, BB 123, is a five-movement orchestral work composed by Béla Bartók in 1943. It is one of his best-known, most popular, and most accessible works.
The score is inscribed "15 August – 8 October 1943". It was premiered on December 1, 1944, in Symphony Hall, Boston, by the Boston Symphony Orchestra conducted by Serge Koussevitzky. It was a great success and has been regularly performed since.
It is perhaps the best-known of a number of pieces that have the apparently contradictory title Concerto for Orchestra. This is in contrast to the conventional concerto form, which features a solo instrument with orchestral accompaniment. Bartók said that he called the piece a concerto rather than a symphony because of the way each section of instruments is treated in a soloistic and virtuosic way.
Dance Suite (Hungarian: Táncszvit; German: Tanz-Suite), Sz. 77, BB 86a, is a well-known 1923 orchestral work by the Hungarian composer Béla Bartók. The composer produced a reduction for piano (Sz. 77, BB 86b) in 1925, though this is less commonly performed.
Tracklist:
| Concerto For Orchestra | |||
| A1 | Introduzione | ||
| A2 | Giuco Delle Coppie | ||
| A3 | Elegia | ||
| A4 | Intermezzo Interrotto | ||
| B1 | Finale | ||
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Dance Suite |
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| B2.1 | Moderato | ||
| B2.2 | Allegro Molto | ||
| B2.3 | Allegro Vivace | ||
| B2.4 | Molto Tranquillo | ||
| B2.5 | Comodo | ||
| B2.6 | Finale |
- Composed By – Bartók
- Conductor – Georg Solti
- Engineer [Uncredited] – Kenneth Wilkinson
- Mastered By – W (12)
- Orchestra – The London Symphony Orchestra
- Producer [Uncredited] – John Culshaw
- Sleeve Notes – Margaret Bent
