New Complete Recordings of Bartók's Wooden Prince and Bluebeard's Castle
The Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra conducted by Marin Alsop recorded
two all-Bartók programmes. Central to the first sessions was a
complete performance of the Hungarian composer's romantic fairytale
ballet The Wooden Prince, Op. 13, composed between 1914 and 1916 to a
story by Béla Balázs. The programme also includes the composer's Four
Orchestral Pieces, Op. 12, from 1912. Sessions took place from May 10
to 11, 2007.

A week later Alsop and the BSO were joined by bass Gustáv Beláck and
soprano Andrea Meláth to record Bartók's only opera, Bluebeard's
Castle, Op. 11. Bartók's friend Balázs wrote the libretto for the dark
and musically intense drama, composed in 1911, and twice revised
before the 1918 premičre.

Both albums were recorded in surround sound, and were produced and
engineered by Andrew Walton.

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