Opening with the hauntingly beautiful clarinet solo, echoed by flute and oboe "replies," these five Hungarian musical sketches that Bartok orchestrated from his original piano renditions of his field work collecting folk melodies of his beloved Hungary are highly accessible and charming, with a tinge of humor (in sketch No. 4, "Slightly Tipsy"). I first heard these sketches in the 1960s from an LP record of a performance by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in 1958 under the baton of Bartok's close friend, Fritz Reiner. It has been more than half of a century now, and I have rarely heard them played in concerts. So, I deeply appreciate this upload of a live performance well done.
Opening with the hauntingly beautiful clarinet solo, echoed by flute and oboe "replies," these five Hungarian musical sketches that Bartok orchestrated from his original piano renditions of his field work collecting folk melodies of his beloved Hungary are highly accessible and charming, with a tinge of humor (in sketch No. 4, "Slightly Tipsy"). I first heard these sketches in the 1960s from an LP record of a performance by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in 1958 under the baton of Bartok's close friend, Fritz Reiner. It has been more than half of a century now, and I have rarely heard them played in concerts. So, I deeply appreciate this upload of a live performance well done.
This is the most beautiful played Bartok ever heard.
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What orchestra and conductor? Marvelous music!
That oboe vibrato! :)
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