Hello to all of Bela Bartok Club members.<br>I'm discovering Bartok's piano music.<br>So, I've a question :<br>what are your favorite Bartok's piano music ?...
I recently discovered buried under a heap of music a book called 'For Children' by Bartok. It is forty short simple melodies (about right for my standard of...
Ooops, I'm so sorry ...<br>In my mind, the works with orchestra was not in the piano music.<br>Sure, the piano concertos are some of the very greatest Batork's...
My vote goes to the Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion.<br><br>Good to see some activity in the club again. We all sem to have taken a long holiday....
> My vote goes to the Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion.<br><br>... good choice (one of the very great works !<br>But what about a solo piano work ...
> 'For Children' by Bartok.<br><br>I've found a LP record with some of this pieces played by Bartok himself : <br>very nice and pretty :-)<br><br>Riwall...
No doubt: my favourite piano work is the Six Roumanian Dances. I adore also theAllegro Barbaro, the Sonatina, the Suite, the Roumanian Christmas Carols, The ...
Reference message 296 for my comparison of Sandor and Kocsis. I had focused on the 14 Bagatels for sake of comparison. It's a typically odd Batokian assortment...
> Greetings from Sardinia (welcome back Riwall!) <br><br>Thanks for the welcome back ... lot of pieces that I like a lot.<br>But I have to listen at them...
It's hard for me to pick a favorite Bartok piano work, but since no one else has mentioned it, I vote for the Suite opus 14. It is a remarkably concise yet ...
> I vote for the Suite opus 14. It is a <br>> remarkably concise yet moving 3-movement work<br><br>? Are you sure that the Suite as only 3 movements. I...
I've received some responses on my mail, here is<br>the repons from norelpref :<br><br>hi! i haven't been on the club in a while. i've been super busy trying ...
from Erika :<br><br>My favorites are:<br><br>piano concertos (all 3!!!!!!)<br>roumanian folk dances (excellent for piano, so-so in string/piano arr.)<br>dance ...
from Elliott :<br><br>For solo piano works, the Sonatina is a nice piece, and quite playable, too. It is a bit light for Bartok-- it's based on Rumanian...
I come back on an old scottandrewh's question about the Cantata Profana.<br><br>I've just listened at it and I have to say that I have to listen at it some...
Well, it is well known he used the Golden Mean<br>as part of compositions, I have also read of<br> " Z cells " or perhaps they were " X-cells"<br>being some ...
This "Z" and "X" sounds to me like terminology from Allen Forte's book The Structure of Atonal Music, in which he attempts to develop tools for analyzing music...
> what are your favorite Bartok's piano music ?<br><br>from Tim Snode :<br>It is difficult to choose, but I am partial to the Piano Sonata; Out of Doors; ...
besides the phenomenal string quartets and<br>the Sonata for Two Pianos and percussion. I don't<br>know a whole lot about Bartok's chamber music.<br>Can...
I'm not yet accustomed with them, but there is the two violin and piano sonatas Sz75 (1921) and Sz 76 (1922).<br>The Sonata for Solo Violin Sz 117 (1944),...
Do you know the Rhapsodies for violin and piano (Sz 86 & 89)? The first was written for cello and piano, too, and both were orchestrated.<br>Then, I suggest to...
I recommend the piano quintet, the 44 duos for violin, and Contrasts. The latter was commissioned by Benny Goodman. From the library at St. Mary's College of...
