Bartók: The Miraculous Mandarin, Suite No. 2 & Hungarian Peasant Songs

Dausgaard exhorts the BBCSSO to milk the music for its intensity, conjuring a suitably claustrophobic and lurid setting...In general the transition moments are well handled and Dausgaard carries... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2021, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 26th Feb 2021
Catalogue No: ONYX4213
Label: Onyx
Length: 72 minutes

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Bartók: The Miraculous Mandarin, Op. 19, Sz. 73 (suite)

Work length31:59

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BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Thomas Dausgaard

I. Introduction

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II. 1st Decoy Game

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III. 2nd Decoy Game

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IV. 3rd Decoy Game

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V. The Mandarin Enters

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VI. Dance of the Girl

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VII. The Chase

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VIII. Suddenly the Mandarin's Head Appears

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IX. The Mandarin Falls on the Floor

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Excerpt, Bartók: Hungarian Peasant Songs for orchestra, BB 107, Sz. 100

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Thomas Dausgaard

I. Romance

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II. Allegro

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III. Allegretto

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IV. Allegro

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V. Largamento

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VI. Moderato

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VII. Allegro moderato

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VIII. Allegro

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Bartók: Suite No. 2, Op. 4, BB. 40, Sz. 34

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Thomas Dausgaard

I. Comodo

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II. Allegro scherzando

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III. Andante

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IV. Comodo

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Bartók’s ‘The Miraculous Mandarin’ (published as ‘A Pantomime in One Act’) was composed at a time of violent unrest in Hungary. The Soviet Hungarian Republic had collapsed in 1919 and was replaced by an ultra-nationalist regime which persecuted communists, Jews and leftists and left over 1,500 dead and thousands imprisoned without trial.

It is against this bloody political and social backdrop that the composer, recovering from Spanish Flu, set about a musical depiction of Lengyel’s ‘pantomime grotesque’.

Prior to this period, and after the large-scale Suite No.1 of 1905, Bartók commenced work on a second suite. Smaller in scale than No.1 it is imbued with the folk music he had been studying. It was premiered in 1910.

Bartók was spared service in World War I after failing several medicals. He spent the war years collecting folk songs and some of these provided material for the Hungarian Peasant Songs, which he returned to in 1933 and orchestrated.

This album is the second in a survey of all the composer’s works for orchestra by Thomas Dausgaard and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.

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April 2021

Dausgaard exhorts the BBCSSO to milk the music for its intensity, conjuring a suitably claustrophobic and lurid setting...In general the transition moments are well handled and Dausgaard carries us along on the crest of the dramatic wave, whether the overt ballet narrative or the unpredictable nooks and crannies that pepper the Suite.

May 2021

Dausgaard and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra make delicious capital of the score’s illicit colours with trombone glissandos and bluesy pentatonic exoticism laid on with the proverbial trowel.

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