Bartók: Suite No. 1 & Concerto for Orchestra

To celebrate the great scope and stylistic variety in Bartók’s works, this new series of his orchestral works aims at bringing together on each disc two or more stylistically contrasting works. Whether inspired by impressionistic or late romantic music, by Gypsy music as heard on the streets of Budapest, peasant music from Hungary and Eastern Europe, Arabian music around the Mediterranean, or is a synthesis of many influences towards the end of his life, Bartók’s music speaks to us with an irresistible vitality, passion, humour and compelling seriousness. Thomas Dausgaard