Search - Bela Bartok, Michael Gielen, SWR Baden-Baden and Freiburg Symphony Orchestra :: Bartók: The Wooden Prince, Ballet Suite; Concerto for Orchestra

While Bartók was often neglected and misunderstood during his lifetime, his music emerged as among the most influential art works of the twentieth century, and it continues to influence and inspire composers in the new century.This program features two works documenting Bartók's amazing artistic development - his early triumph, the mime-ballet The Wooden Prince, and his last great work, the popular Concerto for Orchestra. It is fitting that one of the greatest living conductors and advocates of modern symphonic music, Michael Gielen, presents these two important scores in what will surely be regarded as definitive interpretations.