Bartok Music For Strings, Percussion & Celesta (Fricsay) I
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Uploaded by alarihos81 on May 31, 2009
The first part of Bartok's masterpiece, a slow, dark piece of music based on the idea of the fugue. It is actually at the same time a tribute to and a radical overturn of traditional (classical and baroque) counterpoint and harmony.
Here the RIAS symphony Orchestra under Ferenc Fricsay, who was Bartok's student, deliver an incredible, stunning performance. For me this is the best version ever of this work and it is a shame that Deutche Grammophone could not record it in stereo. Still you can listen to Fricsay's genius approach to Bartok's work and the orchestra's superb level, a combination that, for me, is unsurpassed until today, although admittedly I have not heard every single recording out there, but still I have many.
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Two people are Stravinsky and Kodaly
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superb ... conducting such a difficult piece with this level of eloquence is unmatched
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@Gribbo9999 hmn, interesting. for me it was always night on bald(bear?) mountain. it terrified me as a little kid and to this day i can only listen to it in small doses.
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@DAGfilms100 Naa its a different movement :)
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I think rather than making it more intense for the movie they used a different movement of the same composition.
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Ahh...gotta love European musicians.
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reminds me of A.I. soundtrack
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This song was edited for Stanley Kubrick's The Shining. The music was made more intense for a the horror movie
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BASED on the idea of fugue? It IS a fugue - a complex beauty of a fugue, too! One north European 18th century Saxon's works neither define or dictate what fugue is, its form or key areas. That old Saxon did'nt invent or define fugue - just wrote a bunch. Fugue is a process: with no set forms or 'rules' about pitch level entires or where particular events must happen in the course of its unfolding. Fricsay was an incredibly intelligent musician. Tremendous performance, Thanks much.
MuseDuCafe 3 months ago 5
Image at 3:47 - "AT LAST, MY ARM IS COMPLETE AGAIN!"
philfingersjameson 4 months ago 2