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Bartók - Bluebeard’s Castle

Composer Béla Bartók
Performer Mika Kares
Géza Szilvay
Szilvia Vörös
Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra
Susanna Mälkki, conductor
Period Modern
Catalogue Number BIS-2388 SACD
EAN 7318599923888
Format SACD Hybrid

This hybrid disc plays on both CD and SACD players
SACD Surround - SACD Stereo - CD Stereo

Release date Mar 2021
Total time 60'30


Composed in 1911, Bluebeard’s Castle is Béla Bartók’s only opera – a radical masterpiece which has secured a place alongside the other innovative music dramas of the same period, from Debussy’s Pelléas et Mélisande to Berg’s Wozzeck. Planning to write a one-act opera, Bartók settled on a libretto by Béla Balázs with the kind of surreal and/or macabre themes that would soon feature in his two ballets, The Wooden Prince and The Miraculous Mandarin. Read more
 
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  Béla Bartók
  Bluebeard’s Castle, Op. 11 / BB 62 59'54
01 Prologue: ‘Haj regő rejtem’ 1'56
02 Opening Scene: ‘Megérkeztünk’ 13'42
03 First Door: ‘Jaj!’ - ‘Mit látsz? Mit látsz?’ 4'18
04 Second Door: ‘Mit látsz?’ - ‘Száz kegyetlen szörnyű fegyver’ 4'13
05 Third Door: ‘Oh, be sok kincs!’ 2'24
06 Fourth Door: ‘Oh! Virágok! Oh! Illatos kert!’ 4'45
07 Fifth Door: ‘Ah!’ - ‘Lásd ez az én birodalmam’ 6'32
08 Sixth Door: ‘Csendes fehér tavat látok’ 12'44
09 Seventh Door: ‘Lásd a régi aszszonyokat’ 9'20
 
  Album total 60'30
NarratorSzilvay, Géza
ComposerBartók, Béla
OrchestraHelsinki Philharmonic Orchestra
ConductorMälkki, Susanna
Mezzo-sopranoVörös, Szilvia
BaritoneKares, Mika

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