Mihail Kovacic- Michael Gielen Conducts Bartok (CD) Jacqueline Humbert & David Rosenboom Azure Dome

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Mihail Kovacic- Michael Gielen Conducts Bartok (CD) Jacqueline Humbert & David Rosenboom Azure Dome'The Miraculous Mandarin' (op. 19, Sz 73) is Bartok's last work for the stage. The plot revolves around prostitution, brutality, robbery, murder, being an outsider, (unrequited) love and finally, as a catharsis, a kind of love death. The music is relentlessly sharp for long stretches, garishly dissonant, radical, probably the most modern score Bartok created. The premiere (1926) in Cologne was a scandal and Konrad Adenauer, then Lord Mayor of Cologne,