COMPOSERS: Bartok
LABELS: Harmonia Mundi
ALBUM TITLE: Bartók
WORKS: The Miraculous Mandarin; Dance Suite; Four Pieces for Orchestra
PERFORMER: Orchestre National de Lyon/Robertson
CATALOGUE NO: HMG 501777 (2002)
Refined accounts but somewhat lacking in heft. The more sexually-charged passages in the Miraculous Mandarin sound disappointingly understated with far too polite brass playing.
Erik Levi
