The Musique funčbre (Funeral Music) title and the graphics for this release, showing a sere landscape against a black sky, might make you think that the emotional content consists of unrelieved gloom. But in fact it's more cheerful than not: the final selections from Bartók's 27 Two- and Three-Part Choruses, BB 111, are sunny songs for children's chorus and orchestra. They make a rather incongruous conclusion, but the music steadily brightens after the titular work by Witold Lutoslawski, and what you really have here is a ...
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The Musique funčbre (Funeral Music) title and the graphics for this release, showing a sere landscape against a black sky, might make you think that the emotional content consists of unrelieved gloom. But in fact it's more cheerful than not: the final selections from Bartók's 27 Two- and Three-Part Choruses, BB 111, are sunny songs for children's chorus and orchestra. They make a rather incongruous conclusion, but the music steadily brightens after the titular work by Witold Lutoslawski, and what you really have here is a crack performance that demonstrates Lutoslawski's links to Bartók and offers a nice mix of familiar and unusual Bartók works. Eastern European composers of the 20th century's second half were almost without exception mightily influenced by Bartók, whether they wanted to admit it or not, and fortunately Lutoslawski was one who readily acknowledged his debt. The Musique funčbre, in fact, was a direct tribute, written for the tenth anniversary of Bartók's death and marking the beginning...
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