Episode 4
Donald Macleod introduces a complete performance of Bartok's Music for Strings, Percussion and Celeste, considered to be a 20th Century masterwork.
Donald Macleod explores the life and music of Hungarian composer Bela Bartok.
He introduces a complete performance of Bartok's Music for Strings, Percussion and Celeste, considered one of the masterworks of the 20th Century, plus an excerpt from his Second Piano Concerto and a chamber work played by the two musicians who commissioned it, with the composer himself at the piano.
Romanian Whirling Dance
Gyorgy Pauk, Kazuka Sawa (violins)
NAXOS 8550868 T42
Piano Concerto No 2 (1st mvt)
Peter Donohoe
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Simon Rattle (conductor)
EMI CDC754871-2 T4
Loafers' song; Wandering; Girls' teasing song
Gyor Girls' Choir
Miklos Szabo (conductor)
HUNGAROTON HCD12448 T13-15
Contrasts (3rd mvt)
Benny Goodman (clarinet)
Joseph Szigeti (violin)
Bela Bartok (piano)
BIDDULPH LAB 070-71 CD2 T16
Music for Strings, Percussion and Celeste
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Georg Solti (conductor)
DECCA 4705162 CD2 T1-4.
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- Thu 19 Feb 200912:00BBC Radio 3
- Thu 19 Feb 200922:00BBC Radio 3
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