Béla Bartók - Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta, II

Music for Strings, Percussion & Celesta, Sz. 106, BB 114 (1936) I. Andante tranquillo II. Allegro III. Adagio IV. Allegro molto Chicago Symphony Orchestra James Levine Bartók wrote some of his finest music for the Swiss conductor Paul Sacher, in whom he found a particularly sympathetic champion. Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta, written for Sacher in 1936, explores with great refinement and mastery the musical concepts that Bartók had been developing since the mid-’20s. In the Piano Concerto No.