Bartók: First Rhapsodie; Deux Portrait

Bartók: First Rhapsodie; Deux Portrait - PentaTone Classics - PTE 5186360 -

Label: PentaTone Classics
Catalog No: PTE 5186360
Format: Super Audio Hybrid CD
Release Date: 2010-11-16
Number of Discs: 1
Running time: 1 hr. 17 min.
Mono/Stereo: Mixed
UPC Code: 827949036064

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Notes & Reviews:

"As a leading interpreter of the music of Enescu, it's hardly surprising that Lawrence Foster should feel such a strong empathy with the Ligeti, and he delivers a committed performance with the well-drilled Gulbenkian Orchestra...In the Kodaly, Foster once again secures very neat playing from his Portugese orchestra." -BBC Music Magazine***

"An appealing Eastern-flavoured musical salad this...Lawrence Foster directs warm, attentively phrased performances, often rich in detail...Hary Janos is given a spirited, extrovert performance with an impressive show of vividly recorded percussion and plenty of tenderness in the "Song"."-Gramophone Magazine

"The work's various solos are tastefully given, with admirable precision, but it is more in the élan of the tutti at full speed that the orchestra impresses...All in all, this is a most persuasive compilation, both for its excellent playing and for its intelligent and unusual programming."-International Record Review

Notes & Reviews:

Recording information: Grande Auditório of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, (11/2009).



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This was a real disappointment. It got good reviews so I was anticipating something good. In the Kodaly compare Adam and Ivan Fischer. You will hear instrumental solos in those recordings that have inflection and nuance and character. This all sounded generic. I've no comparisons for the other works but found the whole experience uninvolving.
Submitted on 07/27/11 by Stumpf 
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