Bartok’s Concerto for Orchestra

By Walter Parker | January 24, 2013

Hungarian-born composer Bela Bartok wrote much of his Concerto for Orchestra during the summer of 1943, while convalescing in Saranac Lake, New York. We’ll listen to it played by the Budapest Festival Orchestra, conducted by its founder, Ivan Fischer.

Playlist:

9:02 am

Prestissimo Galop
Composer: Emile Waldteufel
Ensemble: Gulbenkian Foundation Orchestra
Conductor: Michel Swierczewski
CD/Album: Waldteufel: The Skaters' Waltz (Les Patineurs)
Record co./Cat #: Nimbus 5264

9:06 am

Prelude: To a Young Musician
Composer: Norman Dello Joio
Soloists: Tanya Stambuk, piano
CD/Album: Piano Music of Norman Dello Joio
Record co./Cat #: Centaur 2469

9:11 am

Les Patineurs Suite ("The Skaters")
Composer: Giacomo Meyerbeer
Ensemble: Cincinnati Pops Orchestra
Conductor: Erich Kunzel
CD/Album: The Dance
Record co./Cat #: Vox 5130

9:29 am

Piano Sonata #32 in c , Op. 111
Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven
Soloists: Simone Dinnerstein, piano
CD/Album: The Berlin Concert
Record co./Cat #: Telarc 80715

10:01 am

Sonata for Flute, Viola and Harp
Composer: Claude Debussy
Ensemble: Boston Symphony Chamber Players
Soloists: Elizabeth Rowe, flute ; Steven Ansell, viola ; Jessica Zhou, harp
CD/Album: Boston Symphony Chamber Players: Profanes et Sacrees
Record co./Cat #: BSO Classics 1102

10:21 am

Concerto for Orchestra , Sz. 116
Composer: Bela Bartok
Ensemble: Budapest Festival Orchestra
Conductor: Ivan Fischer
CD/Album: Bartok: Concerto for Orchestra
Record co./Cat #: Philips 456 575

11:01 am

Piano Sonata #1 in f# , Op. 11
Composer: Robert Schumann
Soloists: Sally Pinkas, piano
CD/Album: Schumann: Sonata in F-sharp Minor, etc.
Record co./Cat #: MSR Classics 1323

11:34 am

Organ Concerto #2 in g , Op. 177
Composer: Josef Rheinberger
Ensemble: Tubingen Cantata Orchestra
Soloists: Wolfram Rehfedt, organ
Conductor: Bernhard Ader
CD/Album: Rheinberger: Orgelkonzerte - Rehfeldt
Record co./Cat #: Bayer 100074

12:05 pm

Otello Overture
Composer: Gioachino Rossini
Ensemble: National Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor: Riccardo Chailly
CD/Album: Rossini: 14 Overtures
Record co./Cat #: London 443850

12:14 pm

Scherzo in c
Composer: Johannes Brahms
Soloists: Leila Josefowicz, violin ; John Novacek, piano
CD/Album: Josefowicz - Novacek: Recital
Record co./Cat #: Warner Classics 61948

12:21 pm

Tristeza de un doble A
Composer: Astor Piazzolla
Soloists: Annemieke Spoelstra, piano ; Jeremiah McLane, accordian
CD/Album: Danse
Record co./Cat #: Spoelstra Mclane 2012

12:29 pm

Symphony #31 "Horn Signal" in D
Composer: Joseph Haydn
Ensemble: American Horn Quartet and Sinfonia Varsovia
Conductor: Dariusz Wisniewski
CD/Album: Concertos for Four Horns
Record co./Cat #: Naxos 8.557747

12:57 pm

Piano Sonata #3: 2nd movement
Composer: Norman Dello Joio
Soloists: Tanya Stambuk, piano
CD/Album: Piano Music of Norman Dello Joio
Record co./Cat #: Centaur 2469

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