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Bartók’s exotic and richly colorful Wooden Prince ballet functions best when performed in the theater with dancers on stage. As a concert piece, there are
The Belcea Quartet’s collective sense of character and technical polish serve Bartók’s quartets well, if not with ideal consistency. They execute certain details in ways
I recall being enormously impressed by the look and feel of this performance when it first appeared on VHS many years ago; revisiting it on
Do Scarlatti and Bartók mesh? In theory they might, since each composer’s keyboard miniatures not only draw heavily from folkloric elements but also approach virtuosity
These performances were recorded by RCA in the ’90s by the famous team of Joanna Nickrenz and William Hoekstra, but never issued. AAM has rescued
Conductor Marin Alsop again leads one of Bartók’s three stage works for Naxos. Previously she recorded The Miraculous Mandarin in an unusual performance that was
It’s fortuitous that Deutsche Grammophon recorded this live Bartók Concerto for Orchestra conducted by Gustavo Dudamel back in January of this year; his recent appointment
This disc is not a true SACD, the two works for piano and orchestra being licensed from Philips recordings made in the mid-1980s, so I
This is one of the more interesting programs in Deutsche Grammophon’s New York Philharmonic live concert series. Lorin Maazel plays Rimsky-Korsakov’s Russian Easter Overture as
These performances by the Chicago Symphony under Georg Solti are of exceptional quality, fusing phenomenal orchestral virtuosity with the conductor’s famous authority in this repertoire,
