Modern Art Orchestra - Plays Bartok: 15 Hungarian Peasant Songs (CD)

This CD features a big band arrangement of Fifteen Hungarian Peasant Songs, Bartok's piano work written between 1914-18Anyone who at any time in their life has heard a sensitive performance of a single work by Bartok, can feel that his works have some kind of more or less hidden message. That they are perfect acoustic crystalline structures, is of course what makes him one of the most important composers of all time, but for the listener, what counts, is the primary experience of how, through his music, Bartok elevates our spirits and plumbs the depths. The Modern Art Orchestra has taken Bartók at his word. The CD features a big band arrangement of 15 Hungarian Peasant Songs, a piano work, in which Bartok arranged some of his favourites from the melodies he had collected. The orchestrators, all the soloists of the MAO, have the utmost respect for the piano score. Not a single note is added to any of the movements, they just transpose the language of the piano to that of a large orches