Description
Bartók: Concertos - Aimard, Stefanovich, Kremer, Bashmet, London Symphony Orchestra, Berliner Philharmoniker, Boulez / Featuring Yuri Bashmet, Gidon Kremer and Pierre-Laurent / Deutsche Grammophon Audio CD 2008 / 477 7440
UPC 0028947774402
The Concerto for Orchestra in F minor, 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.
Tracklist:
| Concerto For Two Pianos, Percussion And Orchestra |
(25:33) | ||
| 1 | Assai Lento |
12:48 | |
| 2 | Lento, Ma Non Troppo |
6:28 | |
| 3 | Allegro Non Troppo | 6:17 | |
|
Concerto For Violin And Orchestra No. 1 |
(21:20) |
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| 4 | Andante Sostenuto |
9:33 | |
| 5 | Allegro Giocoso | 11:47 | |
|
Concerto For Viola And Orchestra |
(23:23) |
||
| 6 | Moderato |
14:31 | |
| 7 | Adagio Religioso |
4:36 | |
| 8 | Allegro Vivace |
4:15 |
- Art Direction – Philipp Starke
- Booklet Editor – Jens Schünemeyer
- Composed By – Béla Bartók
- Conductor – Pierre Boulez
- Coordinator [Project] – Matthias Spindler
- Engineer – Rainer Maillard
- Engineer [Assisted By] – Bastian Schick, Jürgen Bulgrin (tracks: 4 to 8), Sam OKell
- Executive-Producer – Dr. Marion Thiem (tracks: 4 to 8), Ute Fesquet
- Liner Notes – Andrew Clements
- Liner Notes [Traduction] – Dennis Collins (2)
- Liner Notes [Übersetzung] – Reinhard Lüthje
- Orchestra – Berliner Philharmoniker (tracks: 4 to 8), London Symphony Orchestra (tracks: 1 to 3)
- Percussion [II] – Neil Percy (tracks: 1 to 3)
- Percussion [I] – Nigel Thomas (2) (tracks: 1 to 3)
- Photography By [Bashmet] – Mark Shapiro (5)
- Photography By [Booklet] – Kasskara
- Photography By [Boulez] – Harald Hoffmann
- Piano [II] – Pierre-Laurent Aimard (tracks: 1 to 3)
- Piano [I] – Tamara Stefanovich (tracks: 1 to 3)
- Producer – Christian Gansch
- Viola – Yuri Bashmet (tracks: 6 to 8)
- Violin – Gidon Kremer (tracks: 1, 2)
