Béla Bartok - Cantata Profana 3/3

, arranger, and borrower of folk music, based this choral work on a Rumanian folk ballad, and translated the text himself into Hungarian. Many forget that the composer was born in a town in Hungary (Nagyszentmiklos) that is now a part of Rumania. What is unusual about this cantata is that it is unique in Bartók's output, like his only opera Bluebeard's Castle. This is not to suggest a kinship between these two masterful works, because stylistically they are quite far apart. Cast in ...
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