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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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Sun 14 Jan 2018 17:00

Music Played

  • Bartok

    Concerto for orchestra, 5th movement

    Performer: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Performer: Ivan Fischer (conductor).
    • Philips.
  • BΓ©la BartΓ³k

    Allegro Barbaro

    Performer: Bela Bartok (piano).
    • EMI.
  • Traditional

    My poor love is ill (folk song)

    Performer: Unknown.
    • Hungaroton.
  • Bartok

    Mikrokosmos Book 1 No.12: Reflection

    Performer: Zoltan Kocsis (piano).
    • Philips.
  • Bartok

    String Quartet no.4, 1st movement

    Performer: TakΓ‘cs Quartet.
    • Decca.
  • BΓ©la BartΓ³k

    Romanian Folk Dances

    Performer: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Performer: Ivan Fischer (conductor).
    • Philips.
  • Bartok

    Concerto for orchestra, 5th movement

    Performer: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Performer: Ivan Fischer (conductor).
    • Philips.
  • Bartok

    Mikrokosmos Book 2 No.53: In Transylvanian Style

    Performer: Zoltan Kocsis (piano).
    • Philips.
  • BΓ©la BartΓ³k

    Kossuth

    Performer: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Performer: Ivan Fischer (conductor).
    • Philips.
  • Traditional

    Marry me off, mother, or IΒ’ll leave you (folk song)

    Performer: Unknown.
    • Hungaroton.
  • Brahms

    Hungarina Dance no.5 in G minor

    Performer: London Symphony Orchestra. Performer: Antal DorΓ‘ti.
    • Mercury.
  • Traditional

    My little god-daughter (folk song)

    Performer: Unknown.
    • Hungaroton.
  • Bartok

    For Children, no.1

    Performer: Zoltan Kocsis (piano).
    • Hungaroton.
  • Traditional

    The brass horseshoe of my bay steed is very shiny (folk song)

    Performer: Unknown.
    • Hungaroton.
  • Bartok

    44 Duos no.28

    Performer: Wanda Wilkomirska (violin),. Performer: Mihaly Szucs (violin).
    • Hungaroton.
  • Bartok

    Out of doors, 1st movement (with drums & pipes)

    Performer: Cedric Tiberghien (piano).
    • Hyperion.
  • Bartok

    Out of doors, 2nd movement (Barcarolla)

    Performer: Cedric Tiberghien (piano).
    • Hyperion.
  • Bartok

    Out of doors, 3rd movement (Musettes)

    Performer: Cedric Tiberghien (piano).
    • Hyperion.
  • Bartok

    Out of doors, 4th movement (The NightΒ’s Music)

    Performer: Cedric Tiberghien (piano).
    • Hyperion.
  • Bartok

    Out of doors, 5th movement (The Chase)

    Performer: Cedric Tiberghien (piano).
    • Hyperion.
  • BΓ©la BartΓ³k

    Allegro Barbaro

    Performer: Bela Bartok (piano).
    • EMI.
  • Bartok

    Music for Strings, Percussion & Celesta, 3rd movement

    Performer: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Performer: Ivan Fischer (conductor).
    • Philips.
  • Bartok

    String Quartet no.4, 1st movement

    Performer: TakΓ‘cs Quartet.
    • Decca.
  • Bartok

    Piano Concerto no.2, 1st movement

    Performer: Andras Schiff (piano). Performer: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Performer: Ivan Fischer (conductor).
    • Teldec.
  • Bartok

    Piano Concerto no.3, 1st movement

    Performer: Andras Schiff (piano). Performer: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Performer: Ivan Fischer (conductor).
    • Teldec.
  • 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 17:00

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