The Wooden Prince & Dance Suite
BARTOK Béla (1881-1945)
WDR Sinfonieorchester - Cristian Macelaru (Dir)
Label : Linn Records
Artikelnummer: CKD714
1 CD Spielzeit : 074:10
CHF 22.50
Based on a rather childish tale, the music of the ballet The Wooden Prince - recorded in full here - has all the ingredients of a masterpiece: masterful scoring for large forces, use of musical themes, an effortless amalgam of folk and late-Romantic elements. Composed in 1923 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the merging of the towns of Buda and Pest, the century-old Dance Suite is a six-movement work that has become one of Bartók's best known compositions.