Composer of the Week - Bela Bartok (1881-1945) - Episode 4

Donald Macleod explores the life and music of Hungarian composer Bela Bartok. He introduces a complete performance of Bartok's Music for Strings, Percussion and Celeste, considered one of the masterworks of the 20th Century, plus an excerpt from his Second Piano Concerto and a chamber work played by the two musicians who commissioned it, with the composer himself at the piano. Romanian Whirling Dance Gyorgy Pauk, Kazuka Sawa (violins) NAXOS 8550868 T42 Piano Concerto No 2 (1st mvt) Peter Donohoe City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra Simon Rattle (conductor) EMI CDC754871-2 T4 Loafers' song; Wandering; Girls' teasing song Gyor Girls' Choir Miklos Szabo (conductor) HUNGAROTON HCD12448 T13-15 Contrasts (3rd mvt) Benny Goodman (clarinet) Joseph Szigeti (violin) Bela Bartok (piano) BIDDULPH LAB 070-71 CD2 T16 Music for Strings, Percussion and Celeste Chicago Symphony Orchestra Georg Solti (conductor) DECCA 4705162 CD2 T1-4.