"Bluebeard's Castle, Op.11" by Béla Bartók (Audio + Full Score)
Музыка
pf: Bernard Haitink cond/ Berlin Philharmonic
Duke Bluebeard.....John Tomlinson
Judith.....................Anne Sofie von Otter
Narrator..................Sandor Elès
0:00 - Prologue and Opening
16:29 - First Door / The Torture Chamber
20:37 - Second Door / The Armory
25:09 - Third Door / The Treasury
27:35 - Fourth Door / The Secret Garden
32:34 - Fifth Door / Bluebeard's Kingdom
39:16 - Sixth Door / Lake of Tears
52:43 - Seventh Door / Bluebeard's Former Wives
Bluebeard's Castle (Hungarian: A kékszakállú herceg vára; literally: The Blue-Bearded Duke's Castle) is a one-act opera by Hungarian composer Béla Bartók. The libretto was written by Béla Balázs, a poet and friend of the composer, and is written in Hungarian, based on the French literary tale "La Barbe bleue" by Charles Perrault. The opera lasts only a little over an hour and there are only two singing characters onstage: Bluebeard (Kékszakállú), and his new wife Judith (Judit ); the two have just eloped and Judith is coming home to Bluebeard's castle for the first time.
SYNOPSIS:
A short spoken prologue (by the Storyteller) tells the audience that they are entering a world of myth which may reveal something of the inner self.
Bluebeard and his new wife Judith enter Bluebeard's castle. The latter has just married Bluebeard despite her family's opposition. She is still in her wedding dress. She finds Bluebeard's castle "icy, dark and gloomy" and vows to brighten it up.
Judith notices seven mysterious doors and asks for the keys so that the doors can be unlocked. Bluebeard is reluctant to do give them to her, hints at unhappy events in his past, but finally does hand the keys to her.
Behind the first door she finds Bluebeard's torture chamber, complete with racks, branding irons and daggers. The chamber is bathed in a blood-red light.
Behind the second door she finds Bluebeard's armoury with bloodstained spears. The armoury is lit by a yellow-red light.
Behind the third door she finds Bluebeard's treasury, replete with gold, pearls and diamonds. These are all stained with spots of red.
Behind the fourth door she finds Bluebeard's garden. It is fragrant and contains white roses, but even these beautiful flowers are splattered in blood. Her husband refuses to explain the meaning of what she is seeing.
Behind the fifth door Judith discovers a vast and sunny kingdom. But here again the the clouds and the lands are colored blood red. Bluebeard warns Judith not to open any more doors. She has brightened the castle by opening the first five doors, but, he warns, to open more would just invite darkness.
Judith insists on continuing and behind the sixth door she finds a white-colored lake, a huge white sheet of water. "Tears, my Judith, tears, tears," he says. Judith asks him about his former wives and when he refuses to answer, she says that she thinks he killed them all.
Behind the seventh door are three beautiful women dressed in fine clothing. The women walk slowly out and, Bluebeard introduces them as his former wives. The first he met in morning, the second at midday, and the third in the evening, he relates. They return to their room. Bluebeard dresses Judith in fine clothing and crowns her "bride of the night". Terrified and pleading for her life, Judith passes through the seventh door. Bluebeard is left alone and in darkness.
LIBRETTO (English translation): www.powell-pressburger.org/Rev...
PROLOGUE (English translation/analysis): www.bartokrecords.com/articles...
The 1963 Michael Powell film based on the opera can be viewed here: • Béla Bartók - Herzog B...
Пікірлер: 60
32:35 - Anhemitonic pentatonic scale melody harmonized with major chords.
I love how the 4 Alto trombones play for about a total minute lol
00:00 - Prologue 01:17 - Music starts 01:59 - Introduction 16:29 - First door - The Torture Chamber 20:37 - Second door - The Armory 25:09 - Third door - The Treasury 27:35 - Fourth door - The Garden 32:34 - Fifth door - Bluebeard's Kingdom 39:16 - Sixth door - Lake of Tears 52:43 - Seventh door - Bluebeard's Former Wives
@Dylonely42
10 ай бұрын
Thank you very much.
18:01 I don't know how Bartók managed to pack so much descriptive imagery into 5 seconds, but this sounds like a really vivid dream where you are watching people suffer and die from a completely neutral perspective.
I find this work absolutely incredible. Bartók was a real genius!! Sadly, there are only a few people who love his music…
@markko0313
4 жыл бұрын
His concerto for orchestra is one of my all time favourites. I have to say, I love his countryman, Ligeti, more. His violin concerto is astonishing.
@johnnynoirman
3 жыл бұрын
I think many.
@grantveebeejay535
2 жыл бұрын
This work is very much in the international opera and symphonic schedules. I thought he was immensely popular and fashionable if anything.....
@federicoprice2687
2 жыл бұрын
One of my favourites. Door 5 is spine tingling.
@tawnlr6664
2 жыл бұрын
Count me among them!
This music, and the atmosphere and imagery it evokes so easily, may be enough to convince me to travel to Hungary some day.
@jkllfdsa
4 жыл бұрын
I've been there, or at least to the western part of the country. Geographically it looked a lot like central Illinois -- lots of flat farmland.
@nohaylamujer
4 жыл бұрын
That's exactly what happened to me about 30 years ago so I decided to go. Ever since then I've been spending winter in Budapest almost every year. As soon as this COVID nightmare is over, I'll be moving there.
The Hungarian pronunciation is surprisingly good.
My favorite short opera ...
@josefinaherreweghe5358
2 жыл бұрын
One of my favorites of all operas. :-)
Maravillosa versión ! Uno de los más grandes logros de Haitink, quien alcanza una vibración espeluznante y grandiosa en ciertos pasajes, así como una emoción profunda y de enorme sutileza en otros. La filarmónica de Berlín imponente y magistral en el timbre y planos. Von Otter descollante como siempre. Tomlinson en su canto no es solo gravedad sombría y amenazante, sino angustia y dolor !!!
One of my ten all time favorite pieces of music. Thank you!
It's a little distracting that this score includes two translations of the words, but not the original language at all.
Thank you so much for sharing this!
Hungarian is such a mysterious, beguiling language. It reminds me almost of Japanese.
@jkllfdsa
4 жыл бұрын
Linguists and those who study peoples' genetic roots have found some commonalities between the Magyar (Hungarian) people and the people of Mongolia and Korea. When one pronounces the name of Mongolia's capital -- Ulaan Bator -- it *sounds* a lot like Hungarian.
@danielpeelen8604
4 жыл бұрын
@@jkllfdsa It is a language that originates from around the Ural Mountains, so it would make a lot of sense that it is similar to Mongolian and Korean languages :)
@zoltanormosi5617
3 жыл бұрын
Ehhhh...well. How should i put it. The grammar of chinese - taking away the actuals words and how you spell them - has quite the same logic. The order of a sentence, the extensions, the conjugations. Still ours had been formed and extended HEAVILY by Middle Eastern and later by the turkish language. What we consider the ancestral form of hungarian is almost incomprehendable for us. Kind of like how it is with Anglo-Saxon to English. It might sound similar and romanticists speak highly how they can understand it naturally, but i call bullshit on that one. kzread.info/dash/bejne/o6N3qqSam7HPnrg.html Here is a little experiment i did with some Regös (Kind of like what would be Bardic or Story Teller mode) stile recitations with already unused forms of words and grammar. :D
@100Singers
3 жыл бұрын
Indeed the opera is much beloved in Japan. There is even a 1957 recording in Japanese with Teiichi Nakayama, Kyoko Ito and Tomoo Nagai as the narrator. The conductor is Joseph Rosenstock.
Yes, yes, yes! Thank you.
You are my hero.
anyone else looking at this for NYO auditions?
32:32
I'm practising some flute excerpts for the national youth orchestra of uk and I can't find them, nor do I have the time to. The 1st flute part is very fast scales that go up and down within a beat in slow time. Anybody got a time stamp or willing to locate it for/with me?
@ROBZofficial
7 жыл бұрын
Is 17:56 the one?
48:40 Beggining End 52:30
@AP-gg4pr
Жыл бұрын
What?
@Dylonely42
10 ай бұрын
Of ?
32:34 😍
1:58
Fogjad, fogjad...itt a hetedik kulcs
I recognize that putting the score together with the music is an incredible labor of love. Why choose a score which lacks the Hungarian, if the audio performance is in Hungarian?
@tomekkobialka
Жыл бұрын
Because that was and is the only full score available on IMSLP.
@ydhirsch
Жыл бұрын
@@tomekkobialka Now I understand, thank you.
@ydhirsch
Жыл бұрын
@@tomekkobialka Also, thank you for introducing me to IMSLP, a resource totally new to me.
@tomekkobialka
Жыл бұрын
@@ydhirsch You're welcome!
great music unfortunely not i my language
32:22
1:00:18
Hungarian language looks like Turkish.
23:00 they got the rhythm wrong lol
@arugula_fan
6 жыл бұрын
maybe just a rit into the a tempo?
@slateflash
6 жыл бұрын
I don't think so because you can hear some of them playing the correct rhythm as printed
25:09
48:45
32:10