Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra & Susanna Malkki – Bartok: The Wooden Prince & The Miraculous Mandarin Suite (2019) [FLAC 24bit/48kHz]

Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra & Susanna Mälkki – Bartok: The Wooden Prince & The Miraculous Mandarin Suite (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:12:57 minutes | 863 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © BIS

The Wooden Prince and The Miraculous Mandarin are – together with the earlier opera Bluebeard’s Castle – the only stage works by Béla Bartók. They stand apart from the more abstract and often more explicitly folk-related character of the music that we primarily associate with the composer. They are nevertheless major achievements that in different ways highlight Bartók’s imaginative use of the modern orchestra. Set in an enchanted forest, The Wooden Prince is based on a fairytale-like libretto featuring a prince and princess. The two are subjected to various trials, but at the end of the ballet they are allowed to come together and live – we assume – happily ever after. In stark contrast, The Miraculous Mandarin takes place in an urban brothel where three robbers force a girl to seduce men so that they can overpower and kill them. The subject-matter and the erotic qualities of much of the music caused a scandal at the première in 1926, and for a long time the score was primarily performed in the shorter concert version heard on the present disc, the first from the team of the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra and Susanna Mälkki, the orchestra’s chief conductor since 2016.

Tracklist:
1. (The Wooden Prince, Op. 13) – Introduction
2. (The Wooden Prince, Op. 13) – First Dance: Dance of the Princess in the Forest
3. (The Wooden Prince, Op. 13) – The Prince falls in love
4. (The Wooden Prince, Op. 13) – Towards the castle of the Princess – Second Dance: Dance of the trees
5. (The Wooden Prince, Op. 13) – The Prince continues on his way – Third Dance: Dance of the Waves
6. (The Wooden Prince, Op. 13) – The Prince has an idea
7. (The Wooden Prince, Op. 13) – The Princess is curious – Fourth Dance: Dance of the Princess with the Wooden Prince
8. (The Wooden Prince, Op. 13) – The Prince despairs
9. (The Wooden Prince, Op. 13) – The Prince is restored
10. (The Wooden Prince, Op. 13) – Return of the Princess – Fifth Dance
11. (The Wooden Prince, Op. 13) – Collapse of the Wooden Prince – Sixth Dance
12. (The Wooden Prince, Op. 13) – Seventh Dance – The despair of the Princess
13. (The Wooden Prince, Op. 13) – The Happy End
14. (Concert Suite from The Miraculous Mandarin Op. 19) – Introduction – The three Tramps and the Girl
15. (Concert Suite from The Miraculous Mandarin Op. 19) – First decoy game: the old rake
16. (Concert Suite from The Miraculous Mandarin Op. 19) – Second decoy game: the young boy
17. (Concert Suite from The Miraculous Mandarin Op. 19) – Third decoy game: The Mandarin appears
18. (Concert Suite from The Miraculous Mandarin Op. 19) – The Girl begins to dance for the Mandarin
19. (Concert Suite from The Miraculous Mandarin Op. 19) – The Mandarin chases the Girl

Please note: Tracks “14-19” are in 96kHz/24bit format.

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