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  • Orchestra: Hungarian Radio Chorus, Budapest Festival Orchestra
  • Conductor: Iván Fischer
  • Composer: Béla Bartók
  • Audio CD (5 Oct 2000)
  • SPARS Code: DDD
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Philips
  • ASIN: B0000060AV
  • Other Editions: MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 59,596 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Song TitleArtist Time Price
Listen  1. Hungarian Peasant Songs for Orchestra, Sz.100 - BalladeBudapest Festival Orchestra 3:07Ł0.79
Listen  2. Hungarian Peasant Songs for Orchestra, Sz.100 - Hungarian Peasant DancesBudapest Festival Orchestra 6:21Ł0.79
Listen  3. Hungarian Sketches, Sz. 97 - 1. An Evening in the VillageBudapest Festival Orchestra 3:01Ł0.79
Listen  4. Hungarian Sketches, Sz. 97 - 2. Bear MelodyBudapest Festival Orchestra 1:38Ł0.79
Listen  5. Hungarian Sketches, Sz. 97 - 3. MelodyBudapest Festival Orchestra 2:25Ł0.79
Listen  6. Hungarian Sketches, Sz. 97 - 4. Slightly TipsyBudapest Festival Orchestra 2:08Ł0.79
Listen  7. Hungarian Sketches, Sz. 97 - 5. Swineherd's DanceBudapest Festival Orchestra 2:11Ł0.79
Listen  8. Roumanian Folk Dances for Orchestra, Sz. 68 - 1. Stick Dance (from Mezöszabad)Budapest Festival Orchestra 1:15Ł0.79
Listen  9. Roumanian Folk Dances for Orchestra, Sz. 68 - 2. Sash Dance (from Egres)Budapest Festival Orchestra0:37Ł0.29
Listen10. Roumanian Folk Dances for Orchestra, Sz. 68 - 3. In One Spot (from Egres)Budapest Festival Orchestra 1:00Ł0.79
Listen11. Roumanian Folk Dances for Orchestra, Sz. 68 - 4. Horn Dance (from Bisztra)Budapest Festival Orchestra 1:43Ł0.79
Listen12. Roumanian Folk Dances for Orchestra, Sz. 68 - 5. Roumanian Polka (from Belényes)Budapest Festival Orchestra0:30Ł0.29
Listen13. Roumanian Folk Dances for Orchestra, Sz. 68 - 6. Fast Dance (from Belényes)Budapest Festival Orchestra0:15Ł0.29
Listen14. Roumanian Folk Dances for Orchestra, Sz. 68 - 7. Fast Dance (from Nyágra)Budapest Festival Orchestra0:39Ł0.29
Listen15. Transylvanian Dances for Orchestra, Sz.96 - 1. AllegrettoBudapest Festival Orchestra 1:39Ł0.79
Listen16. Transylvanian Dances for Orchestra, Sz.96 - 2. ModeratoBudapest Festival Orchestra0:41Ł0.29
Listen17. Transylvanian Dances for Orchestra, Sz.96 - 3. Allegro vivaceBudapest Festival Orchestra 1:59Ł0.79
Listen18. Roumanian Dance for Orchestra, Sz.47aBudapest Festival Orchestra 4:30Ł0.79
Listen19. The Miraculous Mandarin, BB 82, Sz. 73 (Op.19) - Allegro: IntroductionBudapest Festival Orchestra 3:12Ł0.79
Listen20. The Miraculous Mandarin, BB 82, Sz. 73 (Op.19) - Moderato: First decoy gameBudapest Festival Orchestra 3:49Ł0.79
Listen21. The Miraculous Mandarin, BB 82, Sz. 73 (Op.19) - Second decoy gameBudapest Festival Orchestra 3:19Ł0.79
Listen22. The Miraculous Mandarin, BB 82, Sz. 73 (Op.19) - Sostenuto: Third decoy gameBudapest Festival Orchestra 1:34Ł0.79
Listen23. The Miraculous Mandarin, BB 82, Sz. 73 (Op.19) - Maestoso: The Mandarin entersBudapest Festival Orchestra 6:56Ł0.79
Listen24. The Miraculous Mandarin, BB 82, Sz. 73 (Op.19) - Allegro: The girl sinks down to embrace himBudapest Festival Orchestra 2:19Ł0.79
Listen25. The Miraculous Mandarin, BB 82, Sz. 73 (Op.19) - Sempre vivo: The tramps leap outBudapest Festival Orchestra 2:03Ł0.79
Listen26. The Miraculous Mandarin, BB 82, Sz. 73 (Op.19) - Adagio: Suddenly the Mandarin's head appearsBudapest Festival Orchestra 2:50Ł0.79
Listen27. The Miraculous Mandarin, BB 82, Sz. 73 (Op.19) - Agitato: Again, the frightened tramps discuss how to eliminate the MandarinBudapest Festival Orchestra 1:33Ł0.79
Listen28. The Miraculous Mandarin, BB 82, Sz. 73 (Op.19) - Molto moderato: The body of the Mandarin begins to glow with a greenish blue lightBudapest Festival Orchestra 1:40Ł0.79
Listen29. The Miraculous Mandarin, BB 82, Sz. 73 (Op.19) - Piů mosso: The Mandarin falls on the floorBudapest Festival Orchestra 2:05Ł0.79

On this CD:
  1. (The) Miraculous Mandarin
    Composed by Béla Bartók
    Performed by Hungarian Radio Chorus, Budapest Festival Orchestra
    Conducted by Iván Fischer

  2. Hungarian Peasant Songs
    Composed by Béla Bartók
    Performed by Budapest Festival Orchestra
    Conducted by Iván Fischer

  3. Hungarian Sketches
    Composed by Béla Bartók
    Performed by Budapest Festival Orchestra
    Conducted by Iván Fischer

  4. Romanian Folkdances
    Composed by Béla Bartók
    Performed by Budapest Festival Orchestra
    Conducted by Iván Fischer

  5. Transylvanian Dances
    Composed by Béla Bartók
    Performed by Budapest Festival Orchestra
    Conducted by Iván Fischer

  6. Romanian Dance
    Composed by Béla Bartók
    Performed by Budapest Festival Orchestra
    Conducted by Iván Fischer

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Amazon.co.uk Review

Here are two sides of Bart&ocute;k --the composer donning nationalist costume with works based on traditional dances and songs of Hungary, Romania and Transylvania--and one of his most scorching orchestral showpieces, the ballet score, The Miraculous Mandarin. In the songs and dances Bart&ocute;k turns folk music into high art without losing any of its authentic tang, ranging from the rumbustious (the last of the Dances of Transylvania) to the poignant (the "Melody" from the Hungarian Sketches). And in the complete recording of Mandarin (there's also a suite, which is often recorded, though if you opt for this you miss some of the best bits), Iv´n Fischer and his orchestra take you on a rollercoaster ride through the thrills and spills of one of Bart&ocute;k's greatest works, a compelling tale of seduction, squalor, violence and death, depicted here in unflinching Technicolor. --Harriet Smith

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A hair-raising "Mandarin", 4 Jun 2008
I bought this almost by accident and it is one of my favourite discs of 20th Century music. The Folk dances are transformed by Bartok's art into something that is effortlessly enjoyable while also being profound and sophisticated. While never losing the authentic sound of the original folk melodies, Bartok utterly transforms them into haunting and wonderfully personal utterances. Even the tiny fragmentary Roumanian Dances will stay with you for hours after hearing them. (Especially?)
On the other hand, here is a performance of the full score of the hugely disturbing "Miraculous Mandarin" that is completely "cut loose" in its response to the fantastic orchestration of the most lurid scenario imaginable. It ought to be unbearable but Fischer's Budapest forces are so "inside" this marvellous music that they make its violence totally compelling and generate shimmering sonorities of extraordinary beauty. You feel that the conductor and orchestra fully identify with every aspect of Bartok's musical language. The word "idiomatic" hardly begins to describe it. The Phillips engineers manage to capture all this in an atmospheric but crystalline acoustic.
You certainly want the full score of the Mandarin, rather than the suite, and this version is head and shoulders above any other that I have heard in both performance and recording. I cannot imagine performances that could possibly better those on this incredible disc.

Just to add that BBC Radio 3's CD Review has just selected this as the best available recording as of November 2008.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic Mandarin, 6 Feb 2009
By Tancredi (Manchester) - See all my reviews
This simply the best performance I have heard of one of Bartoks greatest works. The technical difficulties of the piece are never evident, and the benefit of having the complete work, albeit less than 10 minutes longer than the "Suite" is incalculable, the closing minutes are key to what has gone before. The recording is also clear and well balanced

I am not so sure about the fill ups. Yes Bartok's many straight folk based dances are interesting and enjoyable but this is a bit too much of a good thing if you listen to the CD from begining to end non stop. I would have preferred the Dance Suite instead of a couple of these suites

But if you want the ballet, and it should be in every music lovers collection, this the version to go for
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