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Lutoslawski / Bartok - Musique funebre | ECM New Series 4764672

Lutoslawski / Bartok - Musique funebre

Ł12.69

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Label: ECM New Series

Cat No: 4764672

Barcode: 0028947646723

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Release Date: 7th May 2012

Contents

Works

Bartok, Bela

Choruses (27), Sz103 BB111
» Bread-baking
» Don't leave here!
» Hussar
» Jeering
» Loafer’s Song
» Only tell me
» Wandering
Divertimento for Strings, Sz113
Romanian Folk Dances (6) for orchestra, Sz68 BB76

Lutoslawski, Witold

Musique funebre

Artists

Hungarian Radio Children’s Choir
Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra

Conductor

Dennis Russell Davies

Works

Bartok, Bela

Choruses (27), Sz103 BB111
» Bread-baking
» Don't leave here!
» Hussar
» Jeering
» Loafer’s Song
» Only tell me
» Wandering
Divertimento for Strings, Sz113
Romanian Folk Dances (6) for orchestra, Sz68 BB76

Lutoslawski, Witold

Musique funebre

Artists

Hungarian Radio Children’s Choir
Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra

Conductor

Dennis Russell Davies

About

Dennis Russell Davies has had a long-running and highly productive association with the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra – documented on exceptional ECM recordings of repertoire from Mozart via Stravinsky and Pärt to Kancheli – and is currently the orchestra’s Conductor Laureate. Here he leads them through spirited performances of Bartók’s Divertimento, the ever popular Romanian Folk Dances, and Seven Songs (for which the orchestra is joined by the Hungarian Radio Children’s Choir).

This selection of lively Bartók pieces is viewed through the prism of Witold Lutoslawski’s Musique funčbre, written in memory of the great Hungarian composer, and first performed on the 10th anniversary of Bartók’s death. It’s an important, and moving, piece - and one which also led to international recognition for Lutoslawski, Bartók’s Polish kindred spirit.

The Divertimento for strings was Bartók’s last composition in Europe before emigrating to the US. It adapts Hungarian local colour in a manner that documents his despondency and can still cause shivers in listeners today. He was probably aware that with this work in 1939 he was taking leave of Europe and his traditions. He must also have sensed that Europe as he knew it was about to disappear into the darkness of history.

The least known works here are undoubtedly the Seven Songs, taken from a collection of 27 by Bartók. These choruses on folk texts were created for Kodály’s educational programme. Like the Romanian Folk Dances of 1915 (which were orchestrated a couple of years later), they are not folksong arrangements but rather original compositions “in the style of folk music”. Wolfgang Sandner comments in his booklet notes: “They reveal a personality trait that one rarely comes across to such an extent in his other compositions: serenity; one is tempted to call it a sunny disposition, not clouded by social adversity. “Hey, life, glorious life, / This is the life, the glorious life!” are the last lines of the wooing song Csujogató, and that is how Bartók’s original music sounds: joyous, beautiful and pure.

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