Béla Bartok - Music for strings, percussion and celesta

[ohpopshop]

4th movement, if any is keeping score (I came here looking for the 1st movement . . . ;-)

[doctorfuse007]

Fantastic performance.

[wolfgangpeer]

gesund für herz und lunge

[breadforducksmusic]

this is crap

[alexsweeley]

@breadforducksmusic So is your music...

[Nimenicamine01]

algunos motivos deben de ser tomados del 3: Andamento del Piano concerto 2 ....

(A. Tudor) jejejeje! :)

[peppersax]

Music orgasm for me!!! Whenever people tell me that I'm a great composer and performer, I quickly set them straight! These guys knew how to compose. If I can manage to compose just one piece of this magnitude before I drop dead, I'd be blessed! But alas, I'm not certain if that will ever happen.

[tcdowning666]

@peppersax it will! don't give up =D

[muslit]

I have the score in front of me. I know the last few measures of this movement are difficult to execute in terms of Bartok's tempo indications, but the version in this video is far from accurate.

[nightgoat99]

@muslit I also feel that this conductor plays with the tempo a bit too much. When he slows it down, I want to nudge him in the back and tell him to quit messing around, stop being melodramatic. It's still great, though.

[ivebeenthere1]

bravo! and thanks :--)

[RuneMasterJon]

Bartok was a genius. The Golden Ratio is all over this movement btw... Erno Lendvai wrote about it.

[nickleus1977]

this was mentioned in the credits of the movie "the shining" by stanley kubrick. not sure exactly where in the movie it was though...

[micheljch]

@nickleus1977: what was in the Shining was an excerpt form the third movement - aoorix. two minutes in - this is the fourth movement (finale)

[carmencondurviolista]

bello!!!

[nightgoat99]

Masterful! Who says bad? You are a low form of chimpanzee. I close down your zoo. Hail Bartok.

[spacepatrolman]

@nightgoat99 THE PART AT 2:11 IS MY FAVORITE PART

[nightgoat99]

@spacepatrolman me too. I get chills @ 4:19 also.

[HWS2]

Aww... where is the incomparable first movement?

If you have it, please, please, please post it.

[Cramnella]

Bartok didn't need half a hundred musicians to make a glorious noise! Great man; great music!

[audiophile55]

Wow! I never thought I would ever have the pleasure of seeing this performed! This is one of my favorite Bartok pieces! I bought the LP, recorded on Vox label, back in 1982. I have been in love with it ever since.The record isn't even playable, it is worn, turned white! My favorite part in this movement is at 1:46-3:18. I like the tempos slowed in this version. This piece gives me the biggest "rush" there ever was! Poor choice of wording, I know, but don't know how else to say it.

[micheljch]

@audiophile55: I know exactly what you mean; I have always reacted similarly to this piece. Prokifiev's 5th symphony has the same effect on me, FWIW.

[yumpingyiminy]

This is fantastic! I love the changes of tempo - I can't remember if they're written in the score or not? They're mostly very tasteful though :D

[Sophiestelle]

Every things quantifiable in music is written in the score! In special: The pich, the time (this include the changes of tempo), the durations  and the dynamics.

[Alu10000]

Bartok rules!

[cellovekk]

All this I Musici de Montreal videos makes me want to move to Montreal !

[seakaye]

it's the wild flowing pure energy of life finding her way to survive and grow in a world of troubles pains and adverse circumstances

[zizx321]

rock 'n' roll !