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.
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 ...
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
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
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)
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
KODÁLY Hary Janos Suite
BARTÓK Divertimento for Strings
Recorded 1950
Total duration: 50:16
Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
conducted by Antal Doráti
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
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