Description
The Miraculous Mandarin / Bartók - Miraculous Mandarin, Dance Suite; Kodaly - Peacock variations / London Philharmonic Choir, The London Philharmonic, Franz Welser-Möst / EMI Classics Audio CD 1993 Stereo
UPC 077775485820
The Miraculous Mandarin (Hungarian: A csodálatos mandarin, pronounced [ˈɒ ˈt͡ʃodaːlɒtoʃ ˈmɒndɒrin]; German: Der wunderbare Mandarin) Op. 19, Sz. 73 (BB 82), is a one act pantomime ballet composed by Béla Bartók between 1918 and 1924, and based on the 1916 story by Melchior Lengyel. Premiered on 27 November 1926 conducted by Eugen Szenkar at the Cologne Opera, Germany, it caused a scandal and was subsequently banned on moral grounds. Although more successful at its Prague premiere, it was generally performed during the rest of Bartók's life in the form of a concert suite, which preserves about two-thirds of the original pantomime's music.
| Label: | EMI Classics – 077775485820 |
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| Format: |
CD, Album, Stereo
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| Country: | Europe |
| Released: |
1993 |
| Genre: | Classical |
Tracklist:
| 1-12 |
Miraculous Mandarin, Op. 19/Sz 73 |
| 13-18 | Dance Suite For Orchestra, Sz 77 | |
| 19-36 | Variations on a Hungarian folksong "The Peacock" by Zoltán Kodály |
- Choir – The London Philharmonic Choir (tracks: 1-12)
- Conductor – Franz Welser-Möst
- Orchestra – The London Philharmonic Orchestra
