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Bela Bartok, Antal Dorati, David Hall
Bartók: Violin Concerto No. 2; Second Suite
Genre: Classical

Track Listings (7) - Disc #1
1. Violin Concerto No. 2: Allegro non troppo
2. Violin Concerto No. 2: Andante tranquillo
3. Violin Concerto No. 2: Allegro molto
4. Second Suite (Revised 1943 Version): Comodo
5. Second Suite (Revised 1943 Version): Allegro scherzando
6. Second Suite (Revised 1943 Version): Andante
7. Second Suite (Revised 1943 Version): Comodo

CD Details

All Artists: Bela Bartok, Antal Dorati, David Hall, Harold Lawrence, Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, Minnesota Orchestra
Title: Bartók: Violin Concerto No. 2; Second Suite
Members Wishing: 1
Total Copies: 0
Label: Philips
Release Date: 5/16/1995
Genre: Classical
Styles: Chamber Music, Forms & Genres, Concertos, Historical Periods, Modern, 20th, & 21st Century, Instruments, Strings
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 028943435024

Synopsis

Amazon.com essential recording

Menuhin was a lifelong admirer and loving exponent of Bartók's music for the violin. The great Hungarian composer actually wrote his Sonata for Solo Violin expressly for him, and for his part Menuhin probably made more recordings of Bartók's music than any other composer save Beethoven. He recorded the Second Violin Concerto at least twice, first with Furtwängler conducting (not very idiomatically), and then only a few years later, this marvelous performance featuring Bartók specialist Antal Dorati and an enthusiastic Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra. Captured in the glowing acoustic of New York's Carnegie Hall, this performance has the electricity of a live event, with Menuhin sounding both spontaneous as well as secure--and there's none of the unsteadiness and intonation problems that afflicted him from time to time. Clearly, this is one of Menuhin's finest recordings. --David Hurwitz

CD Reviews

Definitive Bartok Recording

John Reager | Berkeley, CA | 06/23/2000

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Yehudi Menuhin's impassioned performance is as artistically sensitive as it is virtuostic. After this recording, most other interpretations seem lacking. While many brilliant violinists have recently championed this monumental concerto, seldom do they match Menuhin's soulful lyricism. Antal Dorati is equally sensitive with the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra. Bartok fans should consider this a "must have" recording. This is truly one of my favorite records of all time.Sincerely,John Reager"

Still the finest

Mark McCue | Denver | 12/13/2001

(5 out of 5 stars)

"After 43 years, this still sounds like it was recorded last week.
After doing side-by-side comparisons, Menuhin's later attempt, also with Dorati, is scrabbly and and tense.This session lasted from midnight to five a.m. before the subway started running, but you'd never know it--the Minneapolis Symphony, always a crack outfit, sounds as if it had just come in from breakfast to start a day's work. The string tone, carefully matched in bowing and character to the soloist, is especially telling. You must have this in any representative collection on many representative fronts."

The immediat rapport!

Hiram Gomez Pardo | Valencia, Venezuela | 04/20/2005

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Bartok was not only one of the purest and gifted musicians ever born. Despite his music is not easy listening, the enormous sincerity, rapture emotive and eloquent expresiveness catches the most indifferent listener from the same beginning.

So, his musical heritage has no limits. Around him there were musicians of the artistic height of Ferenc Fricsay, Antal Dorati, Sandor Vegh, Gyorgy Sandor, Geza Anda, Annie Fisher, Andras Schiff, Louis Kentner, Joseph Szigetti and obviously Yehudi Menuhin; I mean this special, loyal and profound admiration came from the bottom of the soul in every case.

All of you know the huge love maintained for Dorati about Bartok through his entire life. This CD is an absolute artistic triumph, because it comes far beyond the score: It is not mere casuality that Dorati and Fricsay be the superior names at the moment you made the reduced list of the Giant directors in Bartok's music.

The additional commitment will be immediatly perceived for you from the first bars. You will never have the minimum possibility to loose with Dorati conducting Bartok.

A diamantine record all the way!"