Catalogue # 0743254
Bartók: Bluebeard's Castle, Sz. 48, Op. 11
Sylvia Sass & Kolos Kovats
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Georg Solti
Visually-stunning staging by Hungarian director Miklós Szinetár
DVD
“Georg Solti's Grammy-winning recording is more idiomatic than some much praised rivals both in his intense, atmospheric conducting (he was briefly Bartók's pupil) and his native Hungarian singers. Here it provides the soundtrack to cinema director Miklós Szinetár's vivid interpretation, capturing both author Balázs's Pelléas-like mysticism and more contemporary psychodrama. Sylvia Sass is deeply impressive, vocally incisive but sensitive and smoulderingly dramatic.” BBC Music Magazine
