Bartok - music for strings, percussion & celeste {Part 1/4}

Put on headphones! The other version upped is Fricsay’s from 1954. Here is Boulez’ say on the matter There are two groups of strings situated opposite each other, playing antiphonally Andante tranquilo The first movement is a slow fugue. The chromatic theme (moving within the interval of a fifth) is stated by the viola, A being the first note, and gradually other instruments join in, strictly adhering to the circle of fifths. The dynamic climax is reached with the statement of the theme beginning with Eb (The note farthest away from first entry note A from both directions). The fan then closes much quicker than it was established, running backwards in close stretto. In the coda, the theme reappears in the celeste, both in it’s original form as in it’s inversion