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Bela Bartok

Bartok: The Miraculous Mandarin: Suite No. 2/Hungarian Peasant Songs

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Released: 26th February 2021. Bartok's The Miraculous Mandarin' (published as A Pantomime in One Act') was composed at a time of violent unrest in Hungary. The Soviet Hungarian Republic had collapsed in 1919 and was replaced by an ultra-nationalist regime which persecuted communists, Jews and leftists and left over 1,500 dead and thousands imprisoned without trial. It is against this bloody political and social backdrop that the composer, recovering from Spanish Flu, set about a musical depiction of Lengyel's pantomime grotesque'. Bartok was spared service in World War I after failing several medicals. He spent the war years collecting folk songs and some of these provided material for the 'Hungarian Peasant Songs', which he returned to in 1933 and orchestrated.

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  • Details

    Released:
    26th February 2021
    Category:
    Classical
    Format:
    CD Album
    Barcode:
    880040421320
  • Description

    Bartok's The Miraculous Mandarin' (published as A Pantomime in One Act') was composed at a time of violent unrest in Hungary. The Soviet Hungarian Republic had collapsed in 1919 and was replaced by an ultra-nationalist regime which persecuted communists, Jews and leftists and left over 1,500 dead and thousands imprisoned without trial. It is against this bloody political and social backdrop that the composer, recovering from Spanish Flu, set about a musical depiction of Lengyel's pantomime grotesque'. Bartok was spared service in World War I after failing several medicals. He spent the war years collecting folk songs and some of these provided material for the 'Hungarian Peasant Songs', which he returned to in 1933 and orchestrated.
  • Track listing

    Disc 1

    Track name
    Artist
    1.I. Introduction
    BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
    2.II. 1st Decoy Game
    BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
    3.III. 2nd Decoy Game
    BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
    4.IV. 3rd Decoy Game
    BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
    5.V. The Mandarin Enters
    BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
    6.VI. Dance of the Girl
    BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
    7.VII. The Chase
    BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
    8.VIII. Suddenly the Mandarin's Haed Appears
    BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
    9.IX. The Mandarin Falls On the Floor
    BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
    10.I. Romance
    BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
    11.II. Allegro
    BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
    12.III. Allegretto
    BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
    13.IV. Allegro
    BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
    14.V. Largamento
    BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
    15.VI. Moderato
    BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
    16.VII. Allegro Moderato
    BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
    17.VIII. Allegro
    BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
    18.I. Comodo
    BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
    19.II. Allegro Scherzando
    BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
    20.III. Andante
    BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
    21.IV. Comodo
    BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
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