Bartok's

In the Third Concerto Mr. Schiff brought out the elegiac beauty, folkloric lyricism, dancing spirits and, by the end, impish joy of this piece, which he describes as Bartok's swan song.

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Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra is a perfect orchestral warhorse, as colorful as Stravinsky, as mercurial as Prokofiev, as resourcefully orchestrated as Ravel, featuring near-Bachian counterpoint in some sections and eruptive emotional climaxes.

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In lieu of the more conservative offerings Levine was scheduled to play, the orchestra will be joined by the brilliant pianist Peter Serkin in Bartok's Third Piano Concerto.

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Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra is a perfect orchestral warhorse, as colorful as Stravinsky, as mercurial as Prokofiev, as resourcefully orchestrated as Ravel, featuring near-Bachian counterpoint in some sections and eruptive emotional climaxes.

Brad Hill: Salonen Brings Hungarian Echoes to the NY Philharmonic Brad Hill 2011

The pot is further sweetened for audiences by a complete program change; Peter Serkin will now join the orchestra playing Bartok's 3rd piano concerto, and the other works will be Haydn's Symphony No. 93 and Beethoven's Fifth.

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New York is not Cleveland and might never be, but there was a luminosity to the shimmering string work that uplifted Bartok's darker thematic grounding.

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Their performance of Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra after intermission was no less virtuosic, and for once caught the strains of rural Eastern Europe where the composer spent his formative years.

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New York is not Cleveland and might never be, but there was a luminosity to the shimmering string work that uplifted Bartok's darker thematic grounding.

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Their performance of Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra after intermission was no less virtuosic, and for once caught the strains of rural Eastern Europe where the composer spent his formative years.

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There are risks: Rita Donahue, a seven-year veteran of the company and a former George Mason student, remembers a performance of "All Fours," to Bartok's String Quartet No. 4, where the violist broke a string.

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