John Adams Conducts Bartók | Juilliard Orchestra
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22-Nov-2021
Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta, Sz. 106, BB 114 is one of the best-known compositions by the Hungarian composer Béla Bartók. The concerto is in four movements without key signatures and features changing time signatures, timpani glissandi, and a xylophone solo with a rhythm following the Fibonacci sequence, in which each number is equal to the sum of the preceding two numbers. John Adams conducts the Juilliard Orchestra in this complex and captivating performance.
Béla Bartók (1881-1945)
Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta, BB 114 (1936)
Andante tranquillo
Allegro
Adagio
Allegro molto
John Adams conducts the Juilliard Orchestra
Performed and recorded on November 22, 2021, at Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center
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