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Bartók - Konzert Für Orchester (Concerto For Orchestra), Tanzsuite (Dance Suite) / Concertgebouw-Orchester Amsterdam, Bernard Haitink / Sequenza / Philips LP 1982 Stereo
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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:
| Konzert Für Orchester = Concerto For Orchestra | |||
| A1 | 1. Introduzione (Andante Non Troppo - Allegro Vivace) |
9:17 | |
| A2 | 2. Giuoco Della Coppie (Allegretto Scherzando) |
6:37 | |
| A3 | 3. Elegia (Andante, Non Troppo) |
6:45 | |
| A4 | 4. Intermezzo Interrotto (Allegretto) |
4:14 | |
| B1 | 5. Finale (Pesante - Presto) |
9:25 | |
|
Tanzsuite = Dance Suite |
(16:46) |
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| B2a | 1. Moderato | ||
| B2b | 2. Allegro Molto | ||
| B2c | 3. Allegro Vivace | ||
| B2d | 4. Molto Tranquillo | ||
| B2e | 5. Comodo | ||
| B2f | 6. Finale (Allegro) |
- Composed By – Béla Bartók
- Conductor – Bernard Haitink
- Illustration – Ben Griepink
- Liner Notes – Uwe Kraemer
- Orchestra – Concertgebouw-Orchester Amsterdam
