Bartok Music for Strings, Percussion & Celesta (Fricsay) III

[doctorfuse007]

My music professor Lorand Fenyves was also a student when Bartok was head of the Conservatory in Budapest. He used to say that when you "looked into Bartok's bright, clear, hypnotizing eyes, no one could lie".

[MusicfromMarrs]

@Gribbo999: Mmmmmnopes. The xylophone part is played by a xylophone - promise (check the score with a recording if you like - or find a video where you can see the percussion section). The celesta sounds much more like orchestra bells (glockenspiel) than a xylophone. The inside of the celesta keyboard has hammers striking metal bars, so it's a very different sound than the xylophone.

[ProfStuartHalliday]

As used in 1968 by the BBC for Doctor Who - Web of Fear.

Excellent background music!

[Johnny1989a]

@ProfStuartHalliday Thankfully that sole episode that contains this wonderful piece of music survives to this day (shame the other 5 episodes of this superb story are still missing)

Out of interest you wouldn't happen to know who performed on the version used in The Web Of Fear, or is it indeed this version we are listening to here?

[SuperBrictson]

wooowww "The Shining" xD

[trollguy1]

bartok is with no though one of the biggest genious in the history of music

[MusicfromMarrs]

Night piece? Yes. Dig the cricket (the xylophone).

[Gribbo9999]

@MusicfromMarrs  I think your "xylophone" may actually be celesta ( hence the title of the piece). ;)

[Cronana]

I'm listening to this alone in a dark room with the door ajar and the light on in the next room. I keep thinking I see a moving shadow behind the door. Not one of my finer ideas.

[Jeffbear1]

I remember this movement so well from a locally produced T V program in Philadelphia, back in the 1950's. Called "What in the World", a panel of experts would try to identify artifacts. This music was played as the item was rotated on a small turntable, to be viewed by the panel and the T V audience. I actually watched the program to hear Bartok's Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta. But I had no idea what it was way back then when I was a young child. It was meant to be eerie and it was.

[mlr2107]

this is the creepiest music i've ever heard..i like it though sounds like it was in POltergeist as well

[Atheneastro]

This has to be my favourite piece of the movement!

[captmanonymous]

strikes a deep chord inside/within my human soul exsistence spirit conciousness

[ThtPrettyFace]

im here for a skool project. yesh!!!

[Dresden1065]

I always thought this particular score above all was the most sinister of The Shining....

[flammesombres]

It's ridiculous that this recording is out of print. By far the best I've ever heard.

[fundelupa]

@flammesombres @Dresden1065

Disc of the Month | BBC Music Magazine

Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta; Divertimento for strings; Hungarian Sketches for orchestraHungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra/Zoltán Kocsi

[RogueRotting360]

@sillychad18: Both Bartok and Stravinsky do.

[lar41381]

This piece was also played in the first episode of the lost 'Doctor Who' serial, "The Web of Fear."

[Johnny1989a]

@lar41381 Yes it fits that scene perfectly, I'm so glad that episode still survives

[jakiner]

probably the best movie ever! i just discovered Bartok a week ago.

[Beerlejuice]

"Did your Mommy ever tell you I would hurt ya?" "No Dad." "You sure." "Yes Dad." "You know I'd never hurt you Danny, I love you more then anything else in the whole world!" "Yes Dad." "Yeah?" "Yeah." I love that scene so frightening and strangely sweet at the same time. Jack before he goes completely mad.

[sarchinius]

@Beerlejuice

That,s Shining by stanley Kubrick

[gordonsta2]

This was the most thrilling thing I ever did in the whole time I was in the movie industry. As music editor on The Shining, it was my mad idea and it fitted the scene almost unbelievably well. I only had to make two very minor cuts to the picture for it to fit perfectly. But the start of the scene, with Danny turning the door knob, had to be perfect to within two frames (a 1/12th of a second) to make the whole of the rest of the scene work perfectly.

[3ood5tock1969]

@gordonsta2 are you just being funny or were you seriously the music editor for The Shining? if so that is truly amazing i thought that movie was fantastic

[gordonsta2]

No, being perfectly serious. Thanks for you comment.

[sunset261]

@gordonsta2 Wait, so did you actually get to meet krzysztof penderecki?

[gordonsta2]

@sunset261 No, I never got to meet Penderecki - he didn't come over to England. They were all pre-recordings. I don't think Stanley spoke to him either (though I suppose he might have spoken to him on the phone, but I don't think so.)

[dega723]

@gordonsta2 Very good work indeed ! I must say Bartok's piano notes fits very well with the main caracter's madness. "The Shining" is my favourite movie. It is also the scariest of the decade.

[Vesters1]

@gordonsta2 shut up, Kubrick got the idea for this to be used as the soundtrack for The Shining. don't know who you are, but you're lying.

[idriss4189]

@gordonsta2 lol

[YanksSatrianiJaws]

@gordonsta2 ---wow, you did that? That to me is one of the best and creepiest scenes in the whole film...great job lining the score up with the film...whenever I talk about this film with someone, I talk about that scene and how the music lines up with it...pure genius! Great job....

[doctorfuse007]

@gordonsta2 so my dad's friend jay Leyda has written about the process between Eisenstein and Prokofiev in Nevsky; can you give me and the rest of us an idea of the process to match the visuals with the music in the Shining? Especially since it was pre-digital, I imagine there was a lot of splicing and taping!

[hdna12]

Man thanks I've been looking for this soundtrack of The Shining Room 237.

[soulmusic28]

thanks for posting!

[C0NTR4B455]

Agreed..A great performance of a masterpiece..The centre of the work here..What an imagination!! Bartok at his supreme best.

[moonbell21]

omg!!! i love it. i went to this concert a week ago. it was unbelievable, so touching...just brilliant!

[orchdork607]

Creepy! I love Bartok. =)

[gaugin1903]

It's really unsurpassed in rendering Bartok's full musical poetical intention.

Thanks very much for this posting.

[Valkilmer89]

finally. I found this piece. This piece is used in the movie called the Shinning.

[mahler151]

I remember when I was listening to this, i had already seen the shining a bunch of times, and so when I heard this I was like 'Whoa! Bartok wrote this kickass piece?!!?!"

[Dresden1065]

@Valkilmer89

Dude I know exactly how you feel. I was looking for this particular piece out of all the music in the shining. This one is by far the most eerie one.

If I'm not mistaken this is the one that plays when Jack hugs Danny in the room. Just the two of them.

[Valkilmer89]

oh yeah.  Great scene.

[crepesoftime]

Also, when Wendy and Danny are walking through  the hedge maze and when Danny first encounters room 237.

[piscean60]

again, many thanks for this terrific posting-

sound is crystal clear

with great photos of the artists

well done by all