Description
An unfamiliar side to Bartók: Choruses for male choir, interspersed with folk music
The least known area of Bartók's musical legacy is his choral works, including the six male choruses. He wrote the first when he was 22 and the last when he was 54: these compositions run almost throughout his composing career - from the youthful post-Romantic blooming, through his folksong arrangements based on experiences gained on field trips, which infl uenced his whole life and outlook, to one of the greatest works ever written for male choir: a chorus suite entitled From Olden Times.
After seven years of preparation by artistic director Tamás Bubnó and the 16 singers, the time seem ripe to present an unfamiliar side of this great Hungarian genius, to both his compatriots and the world at large. For Bartók's male choruses draw directly on the melodic world of Hungarians and the other peoples of the Carpathian Basin, but their message is universal, deep, and they speak to us all: a man has his place in the world; his prayers, struggles, feelings, thoughts, fears, love, mortality and strength swell, pulsate and surge within us. Between Bartók's works we hear authentic folk music and an extension of it, which gives an insight into the sources, the musical and psychological experiences that may have touched the composer on his field trips: these are played by Balázs Szokolay Dongó on the bagpipes, recorder, and tárogató, with the participation of members of the Saint Ephraim Male Choir.
Track Listing
- Turtle dove, I told you long ago... Székely pipe
- Four Old Hungarian Folksongs BB60 (1910-12)
- Bagpipe music and 'nóta' songs from Nagymegyer, collected by Bartók
- The tárogató sounds: My horse has bolted...
- Evening (BB30)
- Aj, posluchajte malo kamaradi moji - Slovak folksongs for tilinkó and recorder
- Slovak Folksongs (BB77)
- Slovak melodies on the bagpipes
- Székely friss with recorder and gardon
- Székely Folksongs (BB106)
- I wanted to know... - Székely melodies on the recorder
- From Olden Times (BB112) 1st part
- From Olden Times (BB112) 2nd part
- From Olden Times (BB112) 3rd part
- Hey, the wind blows from the Danube - Melodies from Somogy on the long recorder
- Four Old Hungarian Folksongs (BB60) (1910-12, rev. circa 1926)
- To Budapest I go... - Recorder and gardon
- Pile your cart high, farm hand... - 'nóta' songs and bagpipe music
Additional Details
Label: BMC Records
Genre: Classical
Language: English
Run Time: 62 mins
Release Date: 11/06/15
UPC: 5998309302206
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