Bartok
Tom Service explores the extraordinarily original music of Bela Bartok and discusses Bartok's piano music with pianist Cedric Tiberghien.
Tom service explores the extraordinarily original music of Bela Bartok. This Hungarian composer, who was a contemporary of Schoenberg and Stravinsky, managed to avoid the direct influence of these two giants of modern music and created his own musical style, partly inspired by the folk music that he discovered (and recorded onto wax cylinders) in the Hungarian countryside before the First World War. His six string quartets are unmatched for their intensity and invention, and as a concert pianist himself, he wrote much groundbreaking piano music, including three concertos. Bartok's pedagogical series of pieces called Mikrokosmos is still much used by students of the piano, and Tom discusses the composer's piano music with another virtuoso pianist, CΓ©dric Tiberghien.
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Bartok
Concerto for orchestra, 5th movement
Performer: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Performer: Ivan Fischer (conductor).- Philips.
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BΓ©la BartΓ³k
Allegro Barbaro
Performer: Bela Bartok (piano).- EMI.
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Traditional
My poor love is ill (folk song)
Performer: Unknown.- Hungaroton.
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Bartok
Mikrokosmos Book 1 No.12: Reflection
Performer: Zoltan Kocsis (piano).- Philips.
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Bartok
String Quartet no.4, 1st movement
Performer: TakΓ‘cs Quartet.- Decca.
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BΓ©la BartΓ³k
Romanian Folk Dances
Performer: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Performer: Ivan Fischer (conductor).- Philips.
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Bartok
Concerto for orchestra, 5th movement
Performer: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Performer: Ivan Fischer (conductor).- Philips.
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Bartok
Mikrokosmos Book 2 No.53: In Transylvanian Style
Performer: Zoltan Kocsis (piano).- Philips.
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BΓ©la BartΓ³k
Kossuth
Performer: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Performer: Ivan Fischer (conductor).- Philips.
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Traditional
Marry me off, mother, or IΒll leave you (folk song)
Performer: Unknown.- Hungaroton.
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Brahms
Hungarina Dance no.5 in G minor
Performer: London Symphony Orchestra. Performer: Antal DorΓ‘ti.- Mercury.
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Traditional
My little god-daughter (folk song)
Performer: Unknown.- Hungaroton.
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Bartok
For Children, no.1
Performer: Zoltan Kocsis (piano).- Hungaroton.
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Traditional
The brass horseshoe of my bay steed is very shiny (folk song)
Performer: Unknown.- Hungaroton.
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Bartok
44 Duos no.28
Performer: Wanda Wilkomirska (violin),. Performer: Mihaly Szucs (violin).- Hungaroton.
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Bartok
Out of doors, 1st movement (with drums & pipes)
Performer: Cedric Tiberghien (piano).- Hyperion.
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Bartok
Out of doors, 2nd movement (Barcarolla)
Performer: Cedric Tiberghien (piano).- Hyperion.
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Bartok
Out of doors, 3rd movement (Musettes)
Performer: Cedric Tiberghien (piano).- Hyperion.
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Bartok
Out of doors, 4th movement (The NightΒs Music)
Performer: Cedric Tiberghien (piano).- Hyperion.
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Bartok
Out of doors, 5th movement (The Chase)
Performer: Cedric Tiberghien (piano).- Hyperion.
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BΓ©la BartΓ³k
Allegro Barbaro
Performer: Bela Bartok (piano).- EMI.
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Bartok
Music for Strings, Percussion & Celesta, 3rd movement
Performer: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Performer: Ivan Fischer (conductor).- Philips.
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Bartok
String Quartet no.4, 1st movement
Performer: TakΓ‘cs Quartet.- Decca.
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Bartok
Piano Concerto no.2, 1st movement
Performer: Andras Schiff (piano). Performer: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Performer: Ivan Fischer (conductor).- Teldec.
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Bartok
Piano Concerto no.3, 1st movement
Performer: Andras Schiff (piano). Performer: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Performer: Ivan Fischer (conductor).- Teldec.
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Bartok
Music for Strings, Percussion & Celesta, 4th movement
Performer: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Performer: Ivan Fischer (conductor).- Philips.
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- Sun 14 Jan 2018 17:00ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3
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