Similar virtues grace Bartók's Divertimento. Thomas Zehetmair gets his players to attack the opening bars with true peasant earthiness--robust, strongly accented rhythms that give the music the "kick" it really needs. The musicians sustain the evocative stillness of the slow movement with the utmost sensitivity and attack the finale with abandon. This is great playing and conducting, without a doubt. Sándor Veress' four Transylvanian Dances, a bit more stylized and harmonically advanced than Bartók's works of similar derivation, make the perfect interlude between the two works, and you can play this entire magnificently recorded disc as a single recital and come away totally satisfied. It's a wonderful musical experience, plain and simple.