Bartók: Bluebeard's Castle

Release Date: 2nd Apr 2021
Catalogue No: BIS2388
Label: BIS
Length: 60 minutes

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Bartók: Duke Bluebeard's Castle, Sz. 48, Op. 11

Work length1:00:27

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Szilvia Vörös (mezzo-soprano), Mika Kares (bass)
Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra
Susanna Mälkki

Haj regő rejtem (Live)

Track length2:02

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Megérkeztünk (Live)

Track length13:41

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Jaj! - Mit látsz? Mit látsz? (Live)

Track length4:17

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Mit látsz? - Száz kegyetlen szörnyű fegyver... (Live)

Track length4:13

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Oh, be sok kincs! (Live)

Track length2:23

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Oh! Virágok! Oh! Illatos kert! (Live)

Track length4:45

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Ah! Lásd ez az én birodalmam... (Live)

Track length6:32

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Csendes fehér tavat látok (Live)

Track length12:44

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Lásd a régi aszszonyokat (Live)

Track length9:50

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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. The main source for the libretto text was a play by Maeterlinck, a retelling of Perrault's gruesome tale of Barbe-Bleue, the sinister yet strangely seductive wife-killer. Balázs turned the drama into what he called a 'mystery play', however, and his stylisation of the story throws the weight of the drama onto stage-setting and music. Susanna Mälkki and the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra have already proved their Bartók credentials with a disc of his ballet scores which was chosen as Record of the Week in BBC Radio 3 Record Review and earned top marks in Diapason and on the website Klassik-Heute. Joined by Mika Kares as Duke Bluebeard and his Judit, the Hungarian mezzo-soprano Szilvia Vörös, the team here performs Bartók's darkly glittering, shimmering and threatening score in a live recording from 2020.

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