Cantata Profana
(1930)for mixed choir, tenor and baritone soloists and orchestra
Duration: 19'
Music Text
Text after Rumanian folksongs (E, G)
Scoring
3.3.3.3-4.2.3.1-timp.perc-harp-strings
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Publisher
Boosey & Hawkes / Universal Edition
Territory
This work is available from Boosey & Hawkes
for the USA only.
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Repertoire Note
Bartók laboured over the text as well as the music of this beautiful three-movement cantata, and was well pleased with the result, as are audiences today, who find its style surprisingly mellow. It is his only work for this most extensive outlay of performers, and culminates in an ethereal short finale of exquisite manners.
Note by Malcolm Gillies
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