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Béla Bartók
Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta
Divertimento for String Orchestra
Danses populaires roumaines


Les Violons du Roy
Jean-Marie Zeitouni, conductor


ACD2 2576

• Les Violons du Roy are a Canadian national treasure.   The fame of the group outside Quebec had been based on music from before 1800 until their ATMA album Piazzolla stunned the musical world. Under conductor Jean-Marie Zeitouni, Les Violons du Roy's surprising shift of style was a complete success: the ATMA Classique album won the Juno Award as Best Classical Album of the Year (solo or chamber ensemble), has been added to regular play-lists of both public and commercial radio, and was described as 'Scintillating, sexy, electric, elegant, sensuous, risky, robust, just plain exciting and entertaining' by the international press (Classics Today.com 10/10 – USA).

• For their fourth album on ATMA, Zeitouni and Les Violons du Roy again demonstrate that their musical range does not stop in the year 1800.   As Piazzolla would do a generation or two later in Argentina, Bartók put the devices and techniques of Western classical music at the service of the folk music of his homeland.

• Jean-Marie Zeitouni is Principal Guest Conductor of Les Violons du Roy, and is in great demand as an opera conductor.

• Produced by ATMA founder and president Johanne Goyette; recorded and digitally mastered by ATMA’s Anne-Marie Sylvestre in February 2008 at the new Salle Raoul-Jobin of the Palais Montcalm, Québec City.


Béla Bartók (1881-1945)

DIVERTIMENTO :: SZ:113     26:53
  1. Allegro non troppo     9:47
  2. Molto adagio     9:48
  3. Allegro assai     7:18

MUSIQUE POUR CORDES, PERCUSSION ET CÉLESTA :: SZ:106     30:47
  4. Andante tranquillo     8:00
  5. Allegro     7:27
  6. Adagio     8:22
  7. Allegro molto     6:58

DANSES POPULAIRES ROUMAINES :: SZ:56     7:07
Orchestration: Jean-Marie Zeitouni
  8. Joc cu bâta (Danse du bâton)     1:28
  9. Braul (Danse du châle)     0:34
10. Pe loc (Danse sur place)     1:22
11. Buciumeana (Danse de la corne)     2:17
12. Poarga romaneasca (Polka roumaine)     1:26
      Maruntel (Danse rapide)
      Maruntel - Allegro vivace




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