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- An MVD Exclusive
- SKU: BMCCD202
- Format: CD
- UPC: 5998309302022
- Street Date: 09/28/12
- PreBook Date: 01/01/01
- Label: BMC Records »
- Genre: Classical
- Run Time: 67 mins
- Number of Discs: 1
- Year of Production: 2009
- Box Lot: 25
- Territory: NA,GB,AU
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Gergely Vajda - Barbie Blue
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The idea of Barbie Blue (credits for the title go to Hungarian writer, poet László Garaczi) was conceived for the 125th anniversary of Béla Bartók's birth. It was written as a preceeding 'comic version' to its inspiration, Duke Bluebeard's Castle. It is composed for the same voices and for similar size orchestra as Bartók's only opera.
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Intended as comic contrast to Bartók's Bluebeard's Castle, Vajda's 30-minute Barbie Blue gives the woman the upper hand. Seven scenes echo Bartók's seven doors as Mrs. Blue lurches through different emotional states after her husband returns home inopportunely. The style is contemporary and fluid, sung in Hungarian (English texts appear in the booklet). Also a half-hour, Gulliver in Faremido is more comprehensible thanks to the English-language text. In this continuation of the familiar satire, Gulliver arrives at a land populated with machines that communicate through music. These machines believe they are superior to all organic creations and Gulliver eventually agrees with them. Vajda's website implies that the narrator and five players (alto flute, clarinet, violin, cello and piano) also play percussion (vibraphone and bells). The same lineup also provides the scant nine-minute Conversations with Children, a purely instrumental work mimicking 'the playfulness of kids' talk' through frisky gestures, naïve motifs and abrupt but decisive changes.
—Grant Chu Covell , La Folia
