BARTOK

 

Violin Concerto

 

Rhapsodies for Violin and Orchestra

 

Barnabas Kelemen (violin)

Hugarian National Philharmonic Orchestra / Zoltan Kocsis

 

A warmly anticipated new release in the critically acclaimed Hungaroton Bartok series, featuring the award-winning conductor Zoltan Kocsis.  The three works on this CD share an interesting peculiarity. For all three, Bartok composed an alternative ending (as he also did for the Concerto for Orchestra). Whilst concert practice in the past decades has come to prefer one or another of these alternatives, it is both unique and enlightening to listen to the different versions side by side.

 

Hungaroton SACD HSACD32509