вЂњIt is a superb work and a Reiner triumph.вЂќThe following week, Reiner and the Orchestra committed their performance to disc onВ October 22 for RCA, Richard Mohr was the producer andВ Lewis Layton the recording engineer. The orchestration is rich and colorful, frequently with new and beguiling textures.вЂќEarly in his tenure as sixth music director, Fritz Reiner first led the Orchestra in his friend and countrymanвЂ™s work on October 13 and 15, 1955.В вЂњThis wonderful score, a network of nerves spun and controlled by the most brilliant of nervous energies, was played as only great orchestras can play,вЂќ wrote Claudia Cassidy in the Chicago Tribune. Modern, indeed it is, but there are ideasвЂ”often very beautiful ideasвЂ”in the course of it. Then it calmed down to rival in delicacy the classicism of Haydn and Beethoven between which it was programmed at Orchestra Hall Thursday night.вЂќ (HaydnвЂ™s Oxford Symphony opened the concert, followed by the BartГіk and BeethovenвЂ™s Emperor Piano Concerto, that featured the debut of Seymour Lipkin.) Felix Borowski, writing for the Chicago Sun, added, that BartГіkвЂ™s Concerto was, вЂњof more than ordinary worth.

The release won 1994 Grammy awards for Best Classical Album and Best Orchestral Performance.Guest conductor Rafael Payare makes his subscription concert debut leading the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in BartГіkвЂ™s Concerto for Orchestra on January 18 and 20, 2018.

Concerto For Orchestra Bartok