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Release Date: 05/18/1999 Label: Rca Red Seal Hp Catalog #: 63315 Spars Code: ADD Composer: Béla Bartók, Paul Hindemith, Edgard Varčse Conductor: Jean Martinon Orchestra/Ensemble: Chicago Symphony Orchestra
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The Chicago Symphony's recordings of Bartók conducted by fellow-Hungarian Fritz Reiner are justly famous, but the 1967 recording of Bartók's 'Miraculous Mandarin' Suite on this disc reveals that Reiner's successor as music director in Chicago, Jean Martinon, was equally able to inspire the orchestra in this repertoire. This ballet suite is one of the most viscerally exciting scores that Bartók wrote, and it is given a thrilling reading here, with tempos taken at a breakneck pace, especially in the chase sequence near the end. The orchestration is brilliantly captured too, with every squealing woodwind and snarling brass line standing out in high relief. Among other 20th-century ballet scores, Hindemith's 'Noblissima visione' could hardly offer a greater contrast, aiming for a "noble vision" (as the title suggests), restrained and often austere compared to the lurid and sensuous 'Mandarin.' Portraying the mystic marriage of St. Francis of Assisi, the score occupies a similar sound world as Hindemith's better-known 'Mathis der Maler,' which dates from just a few years earlier. For a final contrast, Varčse's noisy 'Arcana' is thrown in: Basically an experiment in sonority, it is brilliantly orchestrated with a huge array of percussion, and requires every bit of virtuosity Martinon and his orchestra have to offer. |
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Miraculous Mandarin, Op. 19/Sz 73: Suite by Béla Bartók | ||||
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Conductor:
Jean Martinon
Orchestra/Ensemble: Chicago Symphony Orchestra Period: 20th Century Written: 1919-1927; Budapest, Hungary |
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Date of Recording: 4/26/1967 Venue: Medinah Temple, Chicago, Illinois Length: 18 Minutes 23 Secs. |
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Nobilissima Visione by Paul Hindemith | ||||
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Conductor:
Jean Martinon
Orchestra/Ensemble: Chicago Symphony Orchestra Period: 20th Century Written: 1938; Switzerland |
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Date of Recording: 10/25/1967 Venue: Medinah Temple, Chicago, Illinois Length: 23 Minutes 45 Secs. |
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Arcana by Edgard Varčse | ||||
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Conductor:
Jean Martinon
Orchestra/Ensemble: Chicago Symphony Orchestra Period: 20th Century Written: 1925-1927; USA |
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Date of Recording: 3/21/1966 Venue: Orchestra Hall, Chicago, Illinois Length: 17 Minutes 59 Secs. |
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