BARTOK/REINER/ - MUSIC FOR STRINGS, PERCUSSION & CELESTA-HUNGARIAN SKETCHES/RCA Shaded Dog LSC-2374

BARTOK/MUSIC FOR STRINGS, PERCUSSION & CELESTA—HUNGARIAN SKETCHES/RCA LIVING STEREO LSC-2374 1S/1S. Fritz Reiner/Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Lewis Layton , Recording Engineer.

Bartok, for his part, revisited the United States briefly in 1939. Then, in 1940, he returned here, never to leave. His American years were neither prosperous nor at all happy ones—through no neglect, it must be said, on the part of his friends.

Fritz Reiner first met Bela Bartok, whose friend he was for forty years and whose music he has championed for nearly half a century, in 1905. Both were piano students of Istvan Thoman at the Budapest Academy. In the final years of an austere life, ravaged by illness, in the company of a colleague and friend he respected, Bartok spent many of the too few happy days remaining to him in a land far from his own. A land, however, that did give him haven in time of need, and that has paid his memory unexampled tribute—this in major part because of Fritz Reiner’s devoted and unceasing service to music he believed in, long before the rest of the world came to share his vision.

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