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
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https://www.mediafire.com/file/h5e0m6q31ibablw/BAR-DORA.zip/file
Thank you!
Thank you very much. This is an exciting discovery indeed!
Ron
I was at this marvelous concert and I remember it very well.
The first part of the concert ended with a very seldom performed work, namely the Cantata Profana with Denes Gulyas, tenor and Sandor Solyom-Nagy, baritone and 'Les Choeurs de Radio-France'.
This explains why the Miraculous Mandarin was performed with a choir.
Many thanks, then!
@C&A HD wow, thanks for your comment. Unfortunately the Cantata Profana was not in my broadcast source.
Dear Guido,
Thanks a million for this remembering me so nice and unforgotable moments.
I attended all rehearsals of that program in Paris together with his wife Ilse van Alpenheim just besides me.
The interpolation within the suite (1928) of the section involving the choir (which is part of the complete ballet (1919)and set just before the usual conclusion of the suite) was Dorati's idea. I could attend the Maestro's rehearsals for 5 years...and premiered some of his works too..Dorati used to tell me how he regretted that he was world famous as conductor...but less as a composer....
@centuri Thank you so much for this other precious "testimony"!
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