Bartók And Virtuosity |
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Presentation
Virtuosity is the dream of every adventurous pianist, coupled with the taste for risk, and almost for the random, staging and endangering, and of the extreme. This was not unknown to the young Béla Bartók. Slipping into the magician’s suit, young, handsome, and charming as was Franz Liszt, himself borrowing the lyricism and madnessof ‘gypsy’ musicians’ improvisation without too many ethnological scruples, he ‘surfed’ from glissandos to tremolos, vying with Paganini’s violin. He was to assert himself in a society marked by the successes of performing musicians whose fame was, in this end of an era, beginning to be almost more important than that of the composers.
Françoise Thinat
Françoise Thinat
Track list
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Béla Bartók | Rhapsody for Piano, Op. 1 Sz. 26 BB 36a | |
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Béla Bartók | Hungarian Folksongs from Csik, Sz. 35a BB 45b | |
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Béla Bartók | 3 Burlesques, Op. 8c Sz. 47 BB 55: I. Presto | |
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Béla Bartók | 3 Burlesques, Op. 8c Sz. 47 BB 55: II. Allegretto | |
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Béla Bartók | 3 Burlesques, Op. 8c Sz. 47 BB 55: III. Molto vivo, capriccioso | |
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Béla Bartók | 2 Romanian Folk Dances, Op. 8a Sz. 43 BB 56: I. Allegro vivace | |
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Béla Bartók | 2 Romanian Folk Dances, Op. 8a Sz. 43 BB 56: II. Poco allegro | |
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Béla Bartók | 3 Etudes, Op. 18 Sz. 72 BB 81: I. Allegro molto | |
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Béla Bartók | 3 Etudes, Op. 18 Sz. 72 BB 81: II. Andante sostenuto - Più mosso | |
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Béla Bartók | 3 Etudes, Op. 18 Sz. 72 BB 81: III. Rubato - Molto sostenuto - Tempo giusto - Rubato | |
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Béla Bartók | 2 Elegies, Op. 8b Sz. 41 BB 49: I. Grave | |
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Béla Bartók | 2 Elegies, Op. 8b Sz. 41 BB 49: II. Molto adagio, sempre rubato |
Press
(Res Musica)