

8.558200-01
Download Size: 123 Mb
Running Time: 02:33:57
Release Date: April 2007
Originally recorded in 2007
Béla Bartók
Jeno Jandó
Ibolya Tóth
János Bohus
Brussels Philharmonic
Brussels Philharmonic Orchestra
Ali Rahbari
Jo Tavernier
György Pauk
Vermeer Quartet
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
Marin Alsop
Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra
Antoni Wit
Kalman Berkes
Budapest Symphony Orchestra
Andras Ligeti
Classical
Instrumental
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Well over half a century after his death, Béla Bartók is held up as one of the twentieth century’s great musical modernists, routinely coupled with revolutionaries like Stravinsky, Schoenberg, Webern and Varèse. But Bartók’s was a very different kind of journey. In some ways he was also a great conservationist, collecting and cataloguing his country’s folksongs, and looking for new ideas in the sounds of nature. Bartók was not a creator of systems, never an iconoclast; rather he sought ways forward by turning music back to its primal, natural roots before the forces of urbanisation and mechanisation cut them off completely. His message is therefore as relevant today as it has ever been.