Saturday, September 25, 2021

XXIV. BARTÓK, Béla: Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta

XXIV. BARTÓK, Béla (1881-1945)

Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta (1936)
1. Andante tranquillo
2. Allegro
3. Adagio
4. Allegro molto
The Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France
Alan Gilbert, cond.
(31:18)

Wikipedia.

Bartók's imaginative orchestration enhances this profound work of genius.

As noted in the Wikipedia article, you can hear parts of this piece in Being John Malkovich and The Shining.

Note this complex fugue which opens the piece -- it begins in A, each entry moving up a Perfect Fifth until the the tritone from A (E-Flat) is reached and then it all reverses:







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