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Antiquated sound for Eduard van Beinum’s Rite and the Concerto for Orchestra; better sound for Music for Strings and Chant du Rossignol. — BBC Music Magazine, August 2019, 2 out of 5 stars

Release Date: 6th Apr 2018
Catalogue No: ELQ4825563
Label: Eloquence
Length: 2 hours 37 minutes

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

Work length36:32

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Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Eduard van Beinum
Recorded: 1948-09-22
Recording Venue: Concertgebouw, Amsterdam

1. Introduzione (Andante non troppo - Allegro vivace

Track length9:35

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2. Giuoco della coppie (Allegretto scherzando)

Track length6:45

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3. Elegia (Andante, non troppo)

Track length6:41

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4. Intermezzo interrotto (Allegretto)

Track length4:26

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5. Finale (Pesante - Presto)

Track length9:05

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Bartók: Music for Strings, Percussion & Celesta, BB 114, Sz. 106

Work length26:51

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Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Eduard van Beinum
Recorded: 1955-10-14
Recording Venue: Concertgebouw, Grote Zaal, Amsterdam

1. Andante tranquillo

Track length6:25

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2. Allegro

Track length6:50

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3. Adagio

Track length6:37

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4. Allegro molto

Track length6:59

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Stravinsky: The Firebird Suite

Work length19:12

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Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Eduard van Beinum
Recorded: 1956-04-06
Recording Venue: Concertgebouw, Amsterdam

1. Introduction

Track length2:44

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2. Dance of the Firebird

Track length0:14

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3. Variation of the Firebird

Track length1:03

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4. Round Dance of the Princesses

Track length4:32

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5. Infernal Dance of King Kaschei

Track length4:40

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6. Berceuse

Track length3:02

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7. Finale

Track length2:57

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Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring: Part I: Adoration of the Earth

Work length3:18

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Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Eduard van Beinum
Recorded: 1946-09-11
Recording Venue: Concertgebouw, Grote Zaal, Amsterdam

1. Introduction

Track length3:18

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Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring: Part I: Adoration of the Earth

Work length11:56

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Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Eduard van Beinum
Recorded: 1946-09-11
Recording Venue: Concertgebouw, Grote Zaal, Amsterdam

2. Les augures printaniers - Danses des adolescentes

Track length3:23

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3. Jeu du rapt

Track length1:19

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4. Rondes printanières

Track length3:25

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5. Jeux des cités

Track length1:45

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6. Cortège du sage

Track length0:38

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7. Le sage

Track length0:20

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8. Danse de la terre

Track length1:06

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Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring: Part II: Le Sacrifice

Work length3:59

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Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Eduard van Beinum
Recorded: 1946-09-11
Recording Venue: Concertgebouw, Grote Zaal, Amsterdam

1. Introduction

Track length3:59

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Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring: Part II: Le Sacrifice

Work length13:00

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Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Eduard van Beinum
Recorded: 1946-09-11
Recording Venue: Concertgebouw, Grote Zaal, Amsterdam

2. Cercles mysteriéux des adolescentes

Track length2:48

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3. Glorification d'élue

Track length1:35

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4. Évocation des ancêtres

Track length0:47

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5. Action rituelle des ancêtres

Track length3:05

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6. Danse sacrale: l'élue

Track length4:45

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Stravinsky: Le Chant du Rossignol - Poème symphonique

Work length20:24

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Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Eduard van Beinum
Recorded: 1956-05-22
Recording Venue: Concertgebouw, Amsterdam

1. Introduction - The feast at the Emperor's palace

Track length2:33

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2. Marche chinoise

Track length3:24

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3. Chant du Rossignol

Track length3:21

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4. Jeu du Rossignol mécanique

Track length11:06

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Kodály: Háry János Suite

Work length22:20

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Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Eduard van Beinum
Recorded: 1955-10-14
Recording Venue: Concertgebouw, Grote Zaal, Amsterdam

1. Prelude - The Fairy Tale Begins

Track length3:36

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2. Viennese Musical Clock

Track length2:05

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3. Song

Track length5:08

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4. The Battle and Defeat of Napoleon

Track length3:51

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5. Intermezzo

Track length4:48

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6. Entrance of the Emperor and his Court

Track length2:52

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The recorded legacy of Eduard van Beinum has been extensively documented on Eloquence. Previous issues have revealed the Dutch conductor’s mastery of and sympathy for 20th century composers such as Sibelius (4429487) and Britten (4802337). His clear-headed approach to any score, combined with the refinement of the Concertgebouw Orchestra, particularly suit the music of Bartók and Stravinsky represented here. At the same time, Van Beinum was renowned for a fastidious ear in the matter of orchestral colour – he could draw out a full palette of sonority in works such as the Symphonie fantastique of Berlioz (also on Eloquence, 4825569) and Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade (4825511), a palette which is further tinted and enhanced by the twanging cimbalom in the uproarious suite from Kodály’s Háry János to conclude this album.

In the repertoire of Willem Mengelberg, Van Beinum’s predecessor at the Concertgebouw, the enthusiasm for music of his own time did not extend much beyond that of his friend Gustav Mahler, and native fellow-Dutch composers. It fell to the younger man, when he finally took full charge of the orchestra in 1945 after sharing responsibility with Mengelberg for several years, to update its repertoire. He did this by casting his net across European modernism and its most distinctive voices. Folksong, whether real or invented, was central to the different idioms of the three composers here, from Stravinsky’s use of old Russian tunes in his sensational first commission for the Ballets Russes of Serge Diaghilev, The Firebird of 1910 (Van Beinum conducts the suite made in 1919) to the unmistakably ‘Hungarian’ sound of both Háry János (1926) and Bartok’s late Concerto for Orchestra of 1943. The most adventurous music here may not even be heard in the archaic savagery of The Rite of Spring (a recording that set new standards for precision in this complex score when first issued in 1948, still on 78s) but in the 1956 recording of another suite, extracted by from his magical, mechanical opera of 1914, Le Rossignol (The Nightingale).

‘An uncommonly sound performance and a truly brilliant recording, bringing out more of the score than I should have thought possible.’ Gramophone, March 1948 (Le Sacre du printemps)

‘A triumph of engineering and conducting. In no other version will be the cimbalom sound as clear.’ Gramophone, January 1957 (Háry János)

‘[Van Beinum] takes a thoroughly Romantic view of this music, giving a performance that emphasises its links with the Rimsky of Coq d’Or and Scheherazade … the beautiful playing of the Concertgebouw woodwind, and the recorded tone is warm to match.’ Gramophone, March 1958 (Le Chant du rossignol, L’Oiseau de feu)

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August 2019

Antiquated sound for Eduard van Beinum’s Rite and the Concerto for Orchestra; better sound for Music for Strings and Chant du Rossignol.

Eduard van Beinum - 20th Century Masterpieces

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