Bartók

Bartók

Béla Viktor János Bartók (25 March 1881 – 26 September 1945) was a Hungarian composer, pianist, and ethnomusicologist. He is considered one of the most important composers of the 20th century; he and Franz Liszt are regarded as Hungary's greatest composers (Gillies 2001). Through his collection and analytical study of folk music, he was one of the founders of comparative musicology, which later became ethnomusicology.

Bartók's music reflects two trends that dramatically changed the sound of music in the 20th century: the breakdown of the diatonic system of harmony that had served composers for the previous two hundred years; and the revival of nationalism as a source for musical inspiration, a trend that began with Mikhail Glinka and Antonín Dvořák in the last half of the 19th century. In his search for new forms of tonality, Bartók turned to Hungarian folk music, as well as to other folk music of the Carpathian Basin and even of Algeria and Turkey; in so doing he became influential in that stream of modernism which exploited indigenous music and techniques.

One characteristic style of music is his Night music, which he used mostly in slow movements of multi-movement ensemble or orchestral compositions in his mature period. It is characterised by "eerie dissonances providing a backdrop to sounds of nature and lonely melodies". An example is the third movement (Adagio) of his Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta.

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Bartók

Bartók

Béla Viktor János Bartók (25 March 1881 – 26 September 1945) was a Hungarian composer, pianist, and ethnomusicologist. He is considered one of the most important composers of the 20th century; he and Franz Liszt are regarded as Hungary's greatest composers (Gillies 2001). Through his collection and analytical study of folk music, he was one of the founders of comparative musicology, which later became ethnomusicology.

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15 albums
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BARTÓK Piano Concerto No. 1
BARTÓK Piano Concerto No. 2
BARTÓK Piano Concerto No. 3

Recorded in 1959/60 in stereo
Total duration: 78:46

Geza Anda piano
Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra
Ferenc Fricsay
conductor

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    BARTÓK String Quintet No. 2 in A minor, Op. 18
    Recorded on 25th April, 1936.
    Duration 30:24

    The Budapest Quartet:
    Josef Roismann,
    violin
    Alexander Schneider,
    violin
    Istvàn Ipolyi,
    viola
    Mischa Schneider,
    cello

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    HAYDN Quartet No. 43
    SCHUBERT Quartets Nos. 12 & 13
    MENDELSSOHN Quartet No. 1
    BARTÓK Quartet No. 2
    DVOŘÁK Sextet
    music by TCHAIKOVSKY & WOLF

    Studio recording, 1932-1938
    Total duration: 2hr 33:12

    Budapest Quartet:
    Joseph Roisman (violin I)
    Alexander Schneider (violin II)
    István Ipólyi or Boris Kroyt (viola)
    Mischa Schneider (cello)

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    BARTÓK Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta
    BARTÓK Concerto for Orchestra

    Recorded live in 1949 and 1954
    Total duration: 68:36

    Boston Symphony Orchestra
    NBC Symphony Orchestra
    conducted by Guido Cantelli 

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    KODÁLY Hary Janos Suite
    BARTÓK Divertimento for Strings

    Recorded 1950
    Total duration: 50:16

    Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
    conducted by Antal Doráti

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    MIHALOVICI Sinfonia Partita for String Orchestra
    STRAVINSKY Symphony in Three Movements
    BARTÓK Concerto for Orchestra

    Live broadcast recordings, 1953 & 1961
    Total duration: 71:59

    Orchestre National de la Radio-télévision Française (RTF)
    Orchestre National de France
    conducted by Jascha Horenstein