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Title: Fine achievements, but never definitive versions!
Review: This performance is frequently ranked, among the most celebrated versions of Bartok' s concerto for orchestra. The preceding fame of Fritz Reiner was clearly nourished by his previous achievements.The recording per se, is vibrant and striking, but it never surpassed (at least to my mind after having carefully been compared both of them) the previous version with Reiner and the Pittsburgh Symphony.So if you really consider this is a superlative performance, it's time for you t go in search of the Pittsburgh' performance.My personal list among the most pyramidal achievements of Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra would be the following ones: Antal Dorati, Ferenc Fricsay, Koussevitzki- Boston, Leindsdorf- Boston , Kubelik- Boston Symphony and Boulez - New York Philharmonic.Music for strings, percussion and celesta has a definitive name and surname: Ferenc Fricsay and RIAS from the early fifties.
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