Description
Béla Bartók - Concerto for Orchestra / Music for Strings, Percussion & Celesta / Chicago Symphony, Fritz Reiner / Hungaroton Audio CD 1986 Stereo
HCDL 31491
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.
| Label: | Hungaroton – HCDL 31491 |
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| Format: |
CD, Album
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| Country: | Hungary |
| Released: | 1986 |
| Genre: | Classical |
Tracklist:
| 1 | Concerto for Orchestra I. (Introduzione) | 9:53 | |
| 2 | Concerto for Orchestra II. (Giuoco delle coppie) | 5:57 | |
| 3 | Concerto for Orchestra III. (Elegia) | 7:53 | |
| 4 | Concerto for Orchestra IV. (Intermezzo interrotto) | 4:13 | |
| 5 | Concerto for Orchestra V. (Finale) | ||
| 6 | Music for Strings, Percussion & Celesta I. Andante tranquillo |
7:00 | |
| 7 | Music for Strings, Percussion & Celesta II. Allegro | 6:58 | |
| 8 | Music for Strings, Percussion & Celesta III. Adagio | 6:57 | |
| 9 | Music for Strings, Percussion & Celesta IV. Allegro molto | 6:41 |
- Conductor – Reiner Frigyes
- Orchestra – The Chicago Symphony Orchestra
