Bartók - Concerto for Orchestra. Kodály - Peacock Variations |
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0090266330928
Label: High Performance
Manufacturer: High Performance
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: High Performance
Release Date: 1999-07-01
Running Time: 62
Studio: High Performance |
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Disc 1:
| 1. Concerto For Orchestra: I. Introduzione - Andante non troppo; Allegro vivace | | 2. Concerto For Orchestra: II. Giuoco delle Coppie - Allegretto scherzando | | 3. Concerto For Orchestra: III. Elegia - Andante, non troppo | | 4. Concerto For Orchestra: IV. Intermezzo Interroto - Allegretto | | 5. Concerto For Orchestra: V. Finale - Pesante; Presto | | 6. Variations On A Hungarian Folksong, 'The Peacock': Theme: Moderato | | 7. Variations On A Hungarian Folksong, 'The Peacock': Variation I: Con brio | | 8. Variations On A Hungarian Folksong, 'The Peacock': Variation II: Staccato leggiero | | 9. Variations On A Hungarian Folksong, 'The Peacock': Variation III: Appassionato | | 10. Variations On A Hungarian Folksong, 'The Peacock': Variation IV: Poco calmato | | 11. Variations On A Hungarian Folksong, 'The Peacock': Variation V: Appassionato | | 12. Variations On A Hungarian Folksong, 'The Peacock': Variation VI: Calmato | | 13. Variations On A Hungarian Folksong, 'The Peacock': Variation VII: Vivo | | 14. Variations On A Hungarian Folksong, 'The Peacock': Variation VIII: Piu vivo | | 15. Variations On A Hungarian Folksong, 'The Peacock': Variation IX: Pizzicato | | 16. Variations On A Hungarian Folksong, 'The Peacock': Variation X: Molto vivo | | 17. Variations On A Hungarian Folksong, 'The Peacock': Variation XI: Andante espressivo | | 18. Variations On A Hungarian Folksong, 'The Peacock': Variation XII: Adagio | | 19. Variations On A Hungarian Folksong, 'The Peacock': Variation XIII: Tempo di Marcia funebre | | 20. Variations On A Hungarian Folksong, 'The Peacock': Variation XIV: Andante, poco rubato | | 21. Variations On A Hungarian Folksong, 'The Peacock': Variation XV: Allegro giocoso | | 22. Variations On A Hungarian Folksong, 'The Peacock': Variation XVI: Maestoso | | 23. Variations On A Hungarian Folksong, 'The Peacock': Finale: Vivace |
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Amazon.co.uk Review
Erich Leinsdorf's 1962 version of Bartók's Concerto for Orchestra has certainly come up with astounding vividness in RCA's latest 24-bit remastering--nowhere more so than in the irrepressible finale, which bounds along here with a giant confidence. Ultimately, though, Leinsdorf's interpretation is simply too slick to convince. Sure, the corporate virtuosity of the Boston orchestra is pretty dazzling--on a purely technical level, the standard of the playing is well up there alongside other vintage analogue versions from the Chicago Symphony under Fritz Reiner (RCA) and the London Symphony Orchestra with Antal Dorati (Mercury)--but the music's tangy wit, pathos and (above all) homesick heartache elude the present team entirely. Fortunately, Ivan Fischer and his dazzling Budapest Festival Orchestra are on hand to provide the necessary antidote; their Philips version positively brims with recreative flair and affectionate perception. Bafflingly, Leinsdorf's performance of Kodály's masterly and exhilarating Peacock Variations is something else again, a clear-headed, purposeful reading as sublimely poised as it is splendidly imposing. Once more, the 1963 sound possesses superb, ear-tingling realism. A frustratingly unequal coupling, then, but do try and hear the Kodály. --Andrew Achenbach
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