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Bela Bartok

Bartok's Divertimento

Sunday 2 March 2008 17:00-18:30 (Radio 3)

Bartok's Divertimento: Martin Handley teams up with the strings of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra for an exploration of some of the ideas behind Bartok's Divertimento.

Duration:

1 hour 30 minutes

Bartok's Divertimento (the online audio is truncated for rights reasons)

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Playlist

Specially recorded for the programme:

Mozart Divertimento in D Major K136
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Elizabeth Layton Director

Corelli Concerto Grosso Opus 6 No 4
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Elizabeth Layton Director

Music from cd:

Bartok Mikrokosmos Sz. 107 Book 6
No 140 Free Variations
No 141 Subject and Reflection
No 142 From the Diary of a Fly
No 147 March
Zoltan Kocsis Piano
Phillips 4756720
Disc 6 Tracks 44 - 46 and 51

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