Bartok, Shostakovich, Lutoslawski Three Journeys Through Dark Landscapes /

This program examines the effect of political upheaval in Eastern Europe on the music of Bartok, Shostakovich, and Lutoslawski. We see how the composers, in spite of adverse political pressures, managed to develop their own musical language in such works of triumphant originality and power as Bartok...

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Other Authors: Digital Classics (Firm)., Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Firm), Infobase.
Format: Video
Language: English
Published: New York, N.Y. : Infobase, [2013], c1996.
Physical Description: 1 streaming video file (52 min.) : sd., col.
Series: Music of the 20th century.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Soviet Artistic Repression (1:12)
  • Preserving Hungarian Folk Music (1:43)
  • "Bluebeard's Castle" (6:18)
  • "Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta" (4:40)
  • Bartók's Exile (1:22)
  • "Concerto for Orchestra" (5:05)
  • "Symphony No. 4" (2:49)
  • "Symphony No. 5" (3:06)
  • "Symphony No. 14" (3:45)
  • "O Delvig, Delvig!" (5:11)
  • Polish "Concerto for Orchestra" (2:27)
  • "Venetian Games" (4:38)
  • "Symphony No. 3" (7:17)
  • Credits: Bartok, Shostakovich, Lutoslawski: Three Journeys Through Dark Landscapes (0:35)