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Re: Best Bartok?

--- In belabartokclub@yahoogroups.com, rugby52732 <no_reply@y...> wrote:
> Which work best exemplifies his genius and will longest endure:
>
> 1.Concerto for Orchestra
> 2. Music for Strings, Percussion,and Celeste
> 3. Bluebird's Castle
> 4. The String Quartets
> 5. 1st Piano Concerto
> 6. Miraculous Mandarin
> 7. Dance Suite
> 8. Viola Concerto
>
> Of course subjective,perhaps impossible or irrelevant,but
> perhaps a fun discussion topic?

Easy. The string quartets. All the others are great, but they all
show only part of Bartok's genius. Only the string quartets bring
everything together at the same time.




Sat May 8, 2004 8:12 pm

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Which work best exemplifies his genius and will longest endure: 1.Concerto for Orchestra 2. Music for Strings, Percussion,and Celeste 3. Bluebird's Castle 4....
rugby52732
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May 8, 2004
5:13 pm

... Easy. The string quartets. All the others are great, but they all show only part of Bartok's genius. Only the string quartets bring everything together...
grdnofmeat
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May 8, 2004
8:12 pm

OK, so which SQ is best?...
LarryLemer
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May 8, 2004
11:04 pm

... I was going to argue for the Concerto for Orchestra. I'm not really that familiar with the quartets, so take my 2 cents with a grain of salt. :-) ... -- R....
R. Douglas Barbieri
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May 10, 2004
5:12 pm

Sigh... I can't help myself. I KNOW everyone says the Quartets are better than the Concerto for Orchestra but that fugal brass bit in the first mvt. is is one...
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May 13, 2004
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