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Concerto for Orchestra

Bartók · 1956

No recording is described. Only the 1943 composition is verified — commissioned by Koussevitzky, premiered by the Boston Symphony Orchestra in 1944, scored for symphony orchestra, structured in five movements, and defined by rotating soloistic emphasis. Everything else — sound, performance, recording, interpretation — is absent from the evidence.