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Bartók: Bluebeard's CastleBournemouth Symphony Orchestra Orchestra, Marin Alsop Conductor
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This Naxos disc may or may not contain the greatest recording of Bartók's Bluebeard's Castle ever made, but while it's playing, you'll wholeheartedly believe that it is. Naturally, in a one-act opera featuring only two singers, the quality of the soloists is critical, and in bass Gustáv Belácek and soprano Andrea Meláth, this recording has two wonderfully lyrical singers who really grasp the psychological depths of Bluebeard and his wife Judith. But more important for the overall success of the performance is the quality of the conductor and orchestra, and in Marin Alsop and the Bournemouth, this recording has a conductor and orchestra at the very peak of their form. Alsop's leadership is intensely dramatic, but never bombastic, and the Bournemouth plays as if the fate of humanity hangs on the passion of the performance. Recorded in all-enveloping sound at The Concert Hall in Poole in May 2007, the digital sound here rivals the best of the so-called major labels. Though many listeners will retain their attachment to the Kertész, Solti, or even the Boulez recordings, those who love Bartók's operatic masterpiece will welcome this recording with open arms. © James Leonard, All Music Guide
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© 2008 All Media Guide, LLC. All Music Guide is a registered trademark of All Media Guide, LLC.
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Béla Bartók ComposerDuke Bluebeard's Castle, Op.11, BB62 (opera) Work
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Gustáv Belácek Bass,
Marin Alsop Conductor,
Andrea Meláth Mezzo-Soprano,
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra Orchestra
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| 1 | 2.Megérkeztünk (Here our journey ends) | 3:59 |
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| 2 | 3.Ez a Kélszakállú vára! (Is this truly Bluebeard's castle!) | 5:25 |
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| 3 | 4.Nagy csukort ajtókat látok (Seven huge doors I see) | 5:23 |
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| 4 | 5.Door 1 (Torture chamber): Jaj'! Mit látsz? (Woe! What do you see?) | 4:13 |
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| 5 | 6.Door 2 (Armory): Mit látsz? (What do you see?) | 4:23 |
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| 6 | 7.Door 3 (Treasury): Oh, be sok kincs! (Oh, riches beyond compare) | 2:23 |
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| 7 | 8.Door 4 (Garden): Oh! Virágok (Oh! Marvelous flowers) | 4:39 |
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| 8 | 8a.Nézd, hogy derul már a váram | 6:14 |
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| 9 | 10.Door 6 (Pool of tears): Csendes fehér tavat látok (I see still white waters) | 4:42 |
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| 10 | 11.Az utolsót nem nyitom ki (The last door must stay shut) | 4:05 |
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| 11 | 13.Tudom, tudom, Kékszakállú (I have guessed, Bluebeard) | 3:32 |
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| 12 | 14.Door 7 (Wives): Lásd a régi asszonyokat (Now behold the other women); 15.Hajnalban as elsöt leltem (I found the first at dawn) | 8:46 |
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