Cristian Măcelaru & WDR Sinfonieorchester - Bartók - The Sunday Times

The Cologne orchestra and its Romanian principal conductor suffuse Bartok’s 1917 ballet with warmth, wit and pathos, alive to the work’s marriage of the fraught and the skittish, the late Romantic and the bucolic. Theirs is an exceptional account, and they are similarly deft in Dance Suite (1923) ... sounding so new and alive here, the ink might still be wet on the staves.