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1.Bartok - Bluebeard's Castle [1981] starring: Sylvia Sass, Kolos Kovats, Georg Solti
directed by: Miklos Szinetar
March 17, 2008
Average Rating:  out of 5 stars

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DVD : Bartok - Bluebeard's Castle [1981]
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This is a strangely beautiful, resonant and, I found, totally compelling film of Béla Bartók's astonishing early opera (his only one). On initial viewing it's almost overwhelming and the final images are an exquisite - and appalling - finale.

At the time of composition Bartók was still very much under the influence of Wagner and Richard Strauss and - like his librettist, Béla Balázs - French symbolism. For Bartók that meant, in particular, Debussy's tonal sophistication, directness and atmospherics, but he was also keen to incorporate genuine Magyar folk traditions and Transylvanian ballads as source material. This he concentrated into a potentially harrowing hour of music, broadly through dramatic grandeur and emotional ... Read More:

2.Il Trittico [1983] starring: Piero Cappuccilli, Nicola Martinucci, Sergio Bertocchi, Aldo Bramante, Sylvia Sass
directed by: Brian Large
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DVD : Il Trittico [1983]
This is a strangely beautiful, resonant and, I found, totally compelling film of Béla Bartók's astonishing early opera (his only one). On initial viewing it's almost overwhelming and the final images are an exquisite - and appalling - finale.

At the time of composition Bartók was still very much under the influence of Wagner and Richard Strauss and - like his librettist, Béla Balázs - French symbolism. For Bartók that meant, in particular, Debussy's tonal sophistication, directness and atmospherics, but he was also keen to incorporate genuine Magyar folk traditions and Transylvanian ballads as source material. This he concentrated into a potentially harrowing hour of music, broadly through dramatic grandeur and emotional ... Read More:

3.Il Trittico starring: Piero Cappuccilli, Sylvia Sass, Nicola Martinucci, Rosalind Plowright, Dunja Vejzovich
March 22, 2004
Average Rating:  out of 5 stars

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DVD : Il Trittico
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This is a strangely beautiful, resonant and, I found, totally compelling film of Béla Bartók's astonishing early opera (his only one). On initial viewing it's almost overwhelming and the final images are an exquisite - and appalling - finale.

At the time of composition Bartók was still very much under the influence of Wagner and Richard Strauss and - like his librettist, Béla Balázs - French symbolism. For Bartók that meant, in particular, Debussy's tonal sophistication, directness and atmospherics, but he was also keen to incorporate genuine Magyar folk traditions and Transylvanian ballads as source material. This he concentrated into a potentially harrowing hour of music, broadly through dramatic grandeur and emotional ... Read More:

4.Bluebeard's Castle starring: Kolos Kováts, Sylvia Sass
directed by: Miklós Szinetár
October 12, 1992
Average Rating:  out of 5 stars

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DVD : Bluebeard's Castle
This is a strangely beautiful, resonant and, I found, totally compelling film of Béla Bartók's astonishing early opera (his only one). On initial viewing it's almost overwhelming and the final images are an exquisite - and appalling - finale.

At the time of composition Bartók was still very much under the influence of Wagner and Richard Strauss and - like his librettist, Béla Balázs - French symbolism. For Bartók that meant, in particular, Debussy's tonal sophistication, directness and atmospherics, but he was also keen to incorporate genuine Magyar folk traditions and Transylvanian ballads as source material. This he concentrated into a potentially harrowing hour of music, broadly through dramatic grandeur and emotional ... Read More:

5.Il Trittico [1983] (REGION 1) (NTSC) starring: Piero Cappuccilli, Nicola Martinucci, Sergio Bertocchi, Aldo Bramante, Sylvia Sass
directed by: Brian Large
February 17, 2004
Average Rating:  out of 5 stars

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DVD : Il Trittico [1983] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
This is a strangely beautiful, resonant and, I found, totally compelling film of Béla Bartók's astonishing early opera (his only one). On initial viewing it's almost overwhelming and the final images are an exquisite - and appalling - finale.

At the time of composition Bartók was still very much under the influence of Wagner and Richard Strauss and - like his librettist, Béla Balázs - French symbolism. For Bartók that meant, in particular, Debussy's tonal sophistication, directness and atmospherics, but he was also keen to incorporate genuine Magyar folk traditions and Transylvanian ballads as source material. This he concentrated into a potentially harrowing hour of music, broadly through dramatic grandeur and emotional ... Read More:

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