Susanna Mälkki, Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra - Béla Bartók: The Wooden Prince; The Miraculous Mandarin Suite (2019)
Susanna Mälkki, Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra - Béla Bartók: The Wooden Prince; The Miraculous Mandarin Suite (2019)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 307 Mb | Total time: 73:07 | Scans included
Classical | Label: BIS | # BIS-SACD-2328 | Recorded: 2017, 2018
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 307 Mb | Total time: 73:07 | Scans included
Classical | Label: BIS | # BIS-SACD-2328 | Recorded: 2017, 2018
The Wooden Prince and The Miraculous Mandarin are – together with the earlier opera Bluebeard’s Castle – the only stage works by Béla Bartók. They stand apart from the more abstract and often more explicitly folk-related character of the music that we primarily associate with the composer. They are nevertheless major achievements that in different ways highlight Bartók’s imaginative use of the modern orchestra. Set in an enchanted forest, The Wooden Prince is based on a fairytale-like libretto featuring a prince and princess. The two are subjected to various trials, but at the end of the ballet they are allowed to come together and live – we assume – happily ever after. In stark contrast, The Miraculous Mandarin takes place in an urban brothel where three robbers force a girl to seduce men so that they can overpower and kill them. The subject-matter and the erotic qualities of much of the music caused a scandal at the première in 1926, and for a long time the score was primarily performed in the shorter concert version heard on the present release, the first from the team of the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra and Susanna Mälkki, the orchestra’s chief conductor since 2016.
Performer:
Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra
Susanna Mälkki, conductor
Tracklist:
Béla Bartók (1881-1945)
The Wooden Prince, Op. 13 (1917)
01. Introduction
02. First Dance: Dance of the Princess in the Forest
03. The Prince falls in love
04. Towards the castle of the Princess - Second Dance: Dance of the trees
05. The Prince continues on his way - Third Dance: Dance of the Waves
06. The Prince has an idea
07. The Princess is curious - Fourth Dance: Dance of the Princess with the Wooden Prince
08. The Prince despairs
09. The Prince is restored
10. Return of the Princess - Fifth Dance
11. Collapse of the Wooden Prince - Sixth Dance
12. Seventh Dance - The despair of the Princess
13. The Happy End
Concert Suite from The Miraculous Mandarin Op. 19
14. Introduction – The three Tramps and the Girl
15. First decoy game: the old rake
16. Second decoy game: the young boy
17. Third decoy game: The Mandarin appears
18. The Girl begins to dance for the Mandarin
19. The Mandarin chases the Girl
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Susanna Mälkki, Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra - Béla Bartók: The Wooden Prince; The Miraculous Mandarin Suite (2019)
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