Béla Bartók  (1881 - 1945)  Hungarian


         Béla Bartók  (Wikipedia Article)

         Complete List of Bartók's Compositions 

         Complete List of Solo Piano Compositions


Famous Non-Piano Bartók Compositions: 

          The opera, Bluebeard's Castle, the ballets The Wooden Prince and The Miraculous Mandarin,
Concerto for Orchestra, Music for Strings, Percussion and CelestaDivertimento for String Orchestra

and six string quartets for which Bartók is considered second only to Beethoven in that genre.


Who was Béla Bartók?  (Bio and Musical Overview)


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Selected Piano Music:

    Fifteen Hungarian Peasant Songs  (1918)   Zoltán   Fejérvári, piano  (14:00)

    Eight Improvisations on Hungarian Peasant Songs, Op. 20, Sz. 74, BB 83  (1920)

    Mikrokosmos (1926, 1932–39) Sz. 107, BB 105
                             - includes the 6 Dances in Bulgarian Rhythm dedicated to Harriet Cohen

            Marouan Benabdallah, piano


    Piano Sonata BB 88, Sz. 80  (1926)  (12:00)

              Zoltán Kocsis, piano


    Piano Concerto No. 1  (1926)

            Yuja Wang, piano, Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Esa-Pekka Salonen, cond.

                   1.  Allegro moderato – Allegro  (9:00)

                   2.  Andante – attacca  (8:00) 

                   3.  Allegro molto  (7:00)

    Piano Concerto No. 2  (1930-31)

            Idil Biret, piano, Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Sir Charles Mackerras, cond 

                    1.  Allegro  (9:35)

                    2.  Adagio—Presto—Adagio  (15:00)

                    3.  Allegro molto - Più allegro  (6:30)


    Piano Concerto No. 3  (1945)

           András Schiff, piano, Hallé Orchestra, Sir Mark Elder, conductor

                    1.  Allegretto  (8:00)

                     2.  Adagio religioso  (9:30)

                     3.  Allegro vivace  (7:00)


    Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion  (1937)

             Sir Geog Solti, Murray Perahia, pianos, Evelyn Glennie, David Corkhill, perc.

                  I.  Assai lento – Allegro troppo  (13:10)

                II.  Lento, ma non troppo  (6:40)

               III. Allegro non troppo  (6:40)

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