Ferenc Fricsay and Geza Anda studied at the Franz Liszt Academy in Budapest ...

... And affirmed, the disc and the concert, as ardent propagators of the music of Bartok.
Made in September 1959 and October 1960 in Berlin, now their historical records of the three Concertos, notwithstanding discophilique nostalgia, can still be considered an obvious reference, despite the remarkable contributions Kovacevich / Davis and Kocsis / Fischer (Philips).

Concerto No. 1, and close to modernist abstraction, keyboard Anda is attentive to stamp sets without succumbing to the cold rhetoric, and the warmth of its contrast game with percussive force of the Berlin orchestra.
Built on the "arch structure" dear to the composer, not one say that the naturalistic poetry of the Adagio-Presto-Adagio Second Concerto is here illuminated by a transcendent inspiration, nourished by hungarisant substrate?

For DG, Fricsay had already recorded a cursory and analytical version of the Concerto No. 3 with Monique Haas in April 1954; under his leadership, there is also a great "live" captured with Annie Fischer (from Orfeo).
These stories are about the same way that one must cherish what we hear in this album: Without a shadow of artifice, the Magyar sap irrigates these works with an authentic spontaneity guaranteed by the artistic demands of both musicians Hungarian.