Georg Solti conducts works by Bartók

Bartók’s key orchestral works here bristle, lament, play, startle, terrify and glow as if plucked fresh from the composer’s heart. Likely to turn you into a Bartók fan if you are not one already.

Jessica Duchen

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Jessica Duchen

Published: March 14, 2017 at 12:15 pm

COMPOSERS: Bartok
LABELS: Eloquence
ALBUM TITLE: Bartók
WORKS: Concerto for Orchestra; The Miraculous Mandarin – Suite; Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta; Divertimento for Strings*; Hungarian Sketches* etc
PERFORMER: LSO, *Chicago Symph Orch/Georg Solti
CATALOGUE NO: ELQ 480 6872 (1964)

Bartók’s key orchestral works here bristle, lament, play, startle, terrify and glow as if plucked fresh from the composer’s heart. Likely to turn you into a Bartók fan if you are not one already.

Jessica Duchen

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Jessica Duchen

Journalist and Critic, BBC Music Magazine

Jessica Duchen studied music at Cambridge University and was the classical music correspondent for The Independent from 2004 to 2016. She has also written for The Guardian, The Observer, The Sunday Times, BBC Music Magazine and the JC, among others. Jessica Duchen has written librettos include numerous choral works and operas for the composer Roxanna Panufnik, including Silver Birch, commissioned by Garsington Opera and shortlisted for an International Opera Award in 2018. Two more works based on stories by Oscar Wilde were commissioned for Garsington’s Youth Company, The Happy Princess with composer Paul Fincham (2019) and The Selfish Giant with John Barber, which fell victim to lockdown, this has been postponed to 2021.
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