BARTOK The Miraculous Mandarin Suite / BRAHMS Symphony No. 1
London Symphony Orchestra •Jonathon Pasternack, conductor
Naxos 8.572448
Béla Bartók’s pantomime The Miraculous Mandarin was banned after its first performance in 1926, but the com-poser’s orchestral suite quickly became a popular concert work, appreciated for its energetic rhythms and daring har-monies. Though facetiously dubbed ‘Beethoven’s Tenth’, Brahms’s Symphony No. 1 is also, in its own way, a no less revolutionary work which charts a journey from darkness to light from its brooding introduction to its euphoric finale. This splendid 2008 recording joins other fine LSO albums available from Naxos.
BUY ONLINE FROM MARBECKS
London Symphony Orchestra Biography & Discography
FOR MORE NAXOS RELEASES FROM MARBECKS, VISIT http://www.marbecks.co.nz/ AND TYPE ‘NAXOS’ INTO THE SEARCH FIELD.
|
