Dorati conducts Bartók - Live in Paris

 

Béla Bartók

Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta, Sz. 106, BB 114 

The Miraculous Mandarin

Orchestre National de France

ANTAL DORATI

(Live, Paris - Salle Pleyel, 29 november 1980) 

About The Miraculous Mandarin, I don't remember who said that listening to the suite one misses the excluded parts, listening to the complete work one misses the incandescent closure of the suite. 

Well, here The Mandarin is presented in a version (prepared by Dorati himself?) that I have never heard before. A sort of hybrid between the complete score and the suite, with the presence of the choir but the closure of the suite. All in very good sound.

FLAC

Britten - War Requiem - Haitink 1964

 

The Dutch premiere of Britten’s War Requiem in 1964, 

with the composer himself conducting the additional chamber orchestra

and the three singers for whom this great work was conceived.

BENJAMIN BRITTEN

War Requiem, Op. 66

Galina Vishnevskaya, Soprano

Peter Pears, Tenor

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Baritone

Groot Omroepkoor

Jongenskoor van de St. Willibrorduskerk buiten de Veste

NCRV Vocaal Ensemble

Chamber Orchestra conducted by Benjamin Britten

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra

Bernard Haitink, conductor

Holland Festival 1964 - Friday, 3 July 1964

Concertgebouw, Grote Zaal - Amsterdam

 

FLAC - separated files