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Marin Alsop-B. Bartok: Cto for Orch / Music for Strings & Percussion - COMPACT DISCS

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Title:

Cto for Orch / Music for Strings & Percussion

Artist:

Marin Alsop-B. Bartok

Label:

Naxos

Product Type:

COMPACT DISCS

UPC:

747313248674

Genre:

Classical

Release Date:

2012-05-29

Number of Discs:

1

Béla Bartók's Concerto for Orchestra, one of his greatest works, was written in the United States after the composer was forced to flee Hungary during World War II. It is not only a brilliant display vehicle for each instrumental section but a work of considerable structural ingenuity that unites classical forms and sonorities with the pungency of folk rhythms and harmonies. Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta explores darker moods through a score of marvelously poised symmetry. This release follows Marin Alsop's 'riveting' (Gramophone) Baltimore Symphony recordings of Dvorák's symphonies. Director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. With her inaugural concerts in September 2007, she became the first woman to head a major American orchestra. Her most recent appointment as principal conductor of the Sao Paulo State Symphony Orchestra (OSESP), starting in 2012, marks another historic appointment for her. In 2005, Marin Alsop was named a MacArthur Fellow, the first conductor ever to receive this prestigious award.

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