Béla Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra | David Grimal & Les Dissonances | George Enescu Festival 2021

Béla Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra | David Grimal & Les Dissonances | George Enescu Festival 2021 | 17.09.2021 | Bucharest Palace Hall
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The Concerto for Orchestra, Sz. 116, BB 123, is a five-movement orchestral work composed by Béla Bartók in 1943. It is one of his best-known, most popular, and most accessible works.
The score is inscribed "15 August - 8 October 1943". It was premiered on December 1, 1944, in Symphony Hall, Boston, by the Boston Symphony Orchestra conducted by Serge Koussevitzky. It was a great success and has been regularly performed since.
It is perhaps the best-known of a number of pieces that have the apparently contradictory title Concerto for Orchestra. This is in contrast to the conventional concerto form, which features a solo instrument with orchestral accompaniment. Bartók said that he called the piece a concerto rather than a symphony because of the way each section of instruments is treated in a soloistic and virtuosic way. (Wikipedia)