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Musique Funebre: Witold Lutoslawski / Bela Bartok [CD]

Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra | Format: Audio CD
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Song TitleArtist Time Price
Listen  1. Musique Funèbre - À La Mémoire De Béla BartókStuttgarter Kammerorchester & Dennis Russell Davies13:55Album Only
Listen  2. Romanian Folk Dances, Bb 76Stuttgarter Kammerorchester & Dennis Russell Davies 6:26£0.79  Buy MP3 
Listen  3. Divertimento, Bb 118: Allegro Non TroppStuttgarter Kammerorchester & Dennis Russell Davies 9:03Album Only
Listen  4. Divertimento, Bb 118: Molto AdagioStuttgarter Kammerorchester & Dennis Russell Davies 9:47Album Only
Listen  5. Divertimento, Bb 118: Allegro assaiStuttgarter Kammerorchester & Dennis Russell Davies 7:31Album Only
Listen  6. 27 Two- and Three-Part Choruses, Bb 111: HussarHungarian Radio Children's Choir, Stuttgarter Kammerorchester & Dennis Russell Davies 1:42£0.79  Buy MP3 
Listen  7. 27 Two- and Three-Part Choruses, Bb 111: Don't Leave Here!Hungarian Radio Children's Choir, Stuttgarter Kammerorchester & Dennis Russell Davies 1:46£0.79  Buy MP3 
Listen  8. 27 Two- and Three-Part Choruses, Bb 111: Loafer's SongHungarian Radio Children's Choir, Stuttgarter Kammerorchester & Dennis Russell Davies0:45£0.79  Buy MP3 
Listen  9. 27 Two- and Three-Part Choruses, Bb 111: WanderingHungarian Radio Children's Choir, Stuttgarter Kammerorchester & Dennis Russell Davies 2:30£0.79  Buy MP3 
Listen10. 27 Two- and Three-Part Choruses, Bb 111: Bread-BakingHungarian Radio Children's Choir, Stuttgarter Kammerorchester & Dennis Russell Davies 2:20£0.79  Buy MP3 
Listen11. 27 Two- and Three-Part Choruses, Bb 111: Only Tell MeHungarian Radio Children's Choir, Stuttgarter Kammerorchester & Dennis Russell Davies 3:22£0.79  Buy MP3 
Listen12. 27 Two- and Three-Part Choruses, Bb 111: JeeringHungarian Radio Children's Choir, Stuttgarter Kammerorchester & Dennis Russell Davies 1:30£0.79  Buy MP3 

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Dennis Russell Davies has had a long-running and highly productive association with the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra - documented on exceptional ECM recordings of repertoire from Mozart via Stravinsky and Part to Kancheli - and is currently the orchestra's Conductor Laureate. Here he leads them through spirited performances of Bartok's Divertimento, the ever popular Romanian Folk Dances, and Seven Songs (for which the orchestra is joined by the Hungarian Radio Children's Choir).

This selection of lively Bartok pieces is viewed through the prism of Witold Lutoslawski's Musique funebre, written in memory of the great Hungarian composer, and first performed on the 10th anniversary of Bartok's death. It's an important, and moving, piece - and one which also led to international recognition for Lutoslawski, Bartok's Polish kindred spirit.

The Divertimento for strings was Bartok's last composition in Europe before emigrating to the US. It adapts Hungarian local colour in a manner that documents his despondency and can still cause shivers in listeners today. He was probably aware that with this work in 1939 he was not only taking leave of Europe and his traditions. He must also have sensed that Europe as he knew it was about to disappear into the darkness of history.

The least known works here are undoubtedly the Seven Songs, taken from a collection of 27 by Bartok. These choruses on folk texts were created for Kodaly's educational programme. Like the Romanian Folk Dances of 1915 (which were orchestrated a couple of years later), they are not folksong arrangements but rather original compositions "in the style of folk music". Wolfgang Sandner comments in his booklet notes: "They reveal a personality trait that one rarely comes across to such an extent in his other compositions: serenity; one is tempted to call it a sunny disposition, not clouded by social adversity. "Hey, life, glorious life, / This is the life, the glorious life!" are the last lines of the wooing song Csujogató, and that is how Bartok's original music sounds: joyous, beautiful and pure."

Personnel: Hungarian Radio Children's Choir (tracks 6-12), Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra, Dennis Russell Davies (conductor)

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