Arte Nova > Bartók, Béla

Dancing with the Orchestra - Stravinsky, etc: / D. Cabassi

1 CD / Arte Nova / 2008-05-13

Works: Igor Stravinsky: Movements (3) from Pétrouchka; Béla Bartók: Dance Suite for piano, Sz. 77, (reduced from orchestral score); Manuel de Falla: El Amor Brujo; Maurice Ravel: La valse
Performers: Cabassi, Davide

Piano transcriptions of orchestral works were long regarded as an insignificant genre, but ambitious transcriptions were actually works of art in their own right. Proof...continue...

Bartók: Music for Piano and Orchestra / Sherman, Gielen

1 CD / Arte Nova / 2006-08-08

Works: Béla Bartók: Concerto for Piano no 3, Sz 119; Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta, Sz 106; Portraits (2) for violin and orchestra, Op. 5/Sz 37
Performers: Sherman, Russell
Conductors: Gielen, Michael; Peskó, Zoltán; Schneidt, Hanns-Martin
Ensemble: ; Southwest German Radio Symphony Orchestra

Since its foundation in 1946, the main aim of the SWR Symphony Orchestra has been to increase audience awareness not only of the symphonic repertoire...continue...

20th Century String Quartets / Rubin String Quartet

1 CD / Arte Nova / 2006-05-09

Works: Béla Bartók: Quartet for Strings no 4, Sz 91; Igor Stravinsky: Pieces (3) for string quartet; Sofia Gubaidulina: Quartet for Strings no 2; Dmitry Shostakovich: Quartet for Strings no 8 in C...
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Ensemble: Rubin Quartet

"The Rubins' traversal of the [Shostakovich Eighth] is among the most gripping, fluid, dramatically perceptive, and technically thrilling I've heard, matching the Emerson's hair-trigger ensemble...continue...

Solo - Bach, Varga, Bartók, etc / Mirijam Contzen

1 CD / Arte Nova / 2005-05-10

Works: Johann Sebastian Bach: Partita for Violin solo no 1 in B minor, BWV 1002; Tibor Varga: Le Serpent, fantasy for solo violin; Béla Bartók: Sonata for Violin solo, Sz 117; Igor Stravinsky: Ele...
Performers: Contzen, Mirijam

German-Japanese violinist Mirijam Contzen is one of the top-flight younger-generation violinists. She was given her first violin at the age of two and her first...continue...