Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra; Dance Suite; Rhapsodies Nos. 1 & 2

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The Dance Suite is impeccably done, and James Ehnes’s intense, rhythmically taut playing does the Rhapsodies proud…the disc makes a worthy companion to The Miraculous Mandarin and Music for Strings,... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2018, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 27th Oct 2017
Catalogue No: CHSA5189
Label: Chandos
Length: 80 minutes

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Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra, BB 123, Sz.116

Work length38:00

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Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra
Edward Gardner
Recorded: 13-14 June 2016
Recording Venue: Grieghallen, Bergen, Norway

I. Introduzione. Andante non troppo - Allegro vivace

Track length10:31

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II. Giuoco delle coppie. Allegretto scherzando

Track length6:19

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III. Elegia. Andante non troppo

Track length7:04

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IV. Intermezzo interrotto. Allegretto

Track length4:16

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V. Finale. Presto

Track length9:50

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Bartók: Rhapsody for Violin & Orchestra No. 1, BB 94b, Sz. 87

Work length15:32

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James Ehnes (violin), Hans-Kristian Kjos Sørensen (cimbalom)
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra
Edward Gardner
Recorded: 19-21 June 2017
Recording Venue: Grieghallen, Bergen, Norway

I. Lassú. Moderato

Track length4:31

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II. Friss. Allegro moderato (First Version)

Track length5:51

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II. Friss. Allegro moderato (Second Version)

Track length5:10

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Bartók: Rhapsody for Violin & Orchestra No. 2, BB 96b, Sz. 90

Work length10:29

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James Ehnes (violin)
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra
Edward Gardner
Recorded: 19-21 June 2017
Recording Venue: Grieghallen, Bergen, Norway

I. Lassú. Moderato

Track length4:25

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II. Friss. Allegro moderato

Track length6:04

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Bartók: Dance Suite, BB 86, Sz. 77

Work length16:17

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Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra
Edward Gardner
Recorded: 19-21 June 2017
Recording Venue: Grieghallen, Bergen, Norway

I. Moderato

Track length3:29

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II. Allegro molto

Track length2:08

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III. Allegro vivace

Track length2:59

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IV. Molto tranquillo

Track length2:49

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V. Commodo

Track length0:59

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VI. Finale. Allegro

Track length3:53

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Four years after a highly successful Bartok recording with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Edward Gardner here returns to the composer on SACD, with James Ehnes as solo violinist, and his Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. The central piece in this recording is the Concerto for Orchestra, the largest work that Bartok completed during the last five years of his life and described by the composer, in the program notes for its 1944 premiere, as ‘a gradual transition from the sternness of the first movement and the lugubrious death-song of the third, to the life-assertion of the last one.’ It is joined by the Dance Suite, the immediate predecessor, among Bartok’s few works for full orchestra without a soloist, of the Concerto for Orchestra, though by more than two decades; and by the violin Rhapsodies, the colorful folk influences of which are revealed by James Ehnes, a specialist in the repertoire, who already has recorded the complete sonatas as well as the concertos for violin and for viola to critical acclaim.

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January 2018

The Dance Suite is impeccably done, and James Ehnes’s intense, rhythmically taut playing does the Rhapsodies proud…the disc makes a worthy companion to The Miraculous Mandarin and Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta recorded by the same forces.

29th October 2017

A fierce, lucid account of Bartók’s last great masterpiece, Concerto for Orchestra...The Bergen orchestra sounds wonderfully alive to Bartók’s rhythmic exactitudes.

January 2018

Gardner has his traditional well- behaved orchestra fizzing with attitude and brazen ferocity, but there is hard- earned character too, not least in the swarming string passages of the Concerto for Orchestra’s first scherzo and the comparative warmth of the movement that follows.

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