Bela Bartok, the greatest ?<br>Not so easy to say this.<br>There is a lot of great composers in XXth century : Debussy, Shostakovitch, Ravel, Stravinsky,...
They are the "14 Bagatelles Op. 6" (Sz. 38), composed in 1908.<br>BB played the bagatelles to Ferruccio Busoni in the same year, and he said to him: "Something...
Welcome utrenja.<br>The Miraculous Mandarin is one of greatest peace of music of the XXth century (in my opinion).<br>There is just one thing : I expect to see...
I really want to see the Cleveland Orchestra at Carnagie Hall playing the 'Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta' in April. But I live in Detroit and I am ...
Unfortunately I have only heard the Rumanian Folk Dances (for orchestra) at the City Theatre in Cagliari and the same piece for piano and violin here in ...
The MM does have some good points- the sarcastic brassy pentatonic melody before the scherzo, the dance itself, the clarinet solo. <br><br>But what is...
I'm very sad to tell you that I've never heard a Bartok's piece of music at the concert.<br><br>I'm still waiting for a such event !<br><br>This is to too bad...
Same for me here: I only listened to the Romanian Folk Dances in a concert with the Budapest Festival Orchestra conducted by Yehudi Menuhin back in 1998... Too...
Mircea : I only listened to the Romanian Folk<br> Dances in a concert with the Budapest Festival<br> Orchestra conducted by Yehudi Menuhin back in<br> ...
It was a unique experience for me, as I am a great admirer of the late Sir Yehudi Menuhin (mainly because his well-known affection for George Enescu)... ...
Is there some who knows Edith Farnadi as pianist for Bela Bartok works.<br>I know that she had recorded some works, specially the 2d and 3d piano concerto with...
Hehe...here's a plug for the San Francisco Youth Orchestra (Yes, I take every chance I get for self-promotion)...we recorded the Miraculous Mandarin at the ...
Hello BBC (Bela Bartok Club) members !<br><br>To try to know how you fell Bela Bartok's music, I suggest to each of you to classify Bartok's works (those you...
Here are mine (at THIS time and as I can understand Bartok's music) :<br><br>1 - Master works ... Violin #2 <br>Miraculous Mandarin, opus 19 <br>Music for ...
I purchased them in Budapest and New Jersey in the late seventies; they are very good performances; I still play them; I had to replace plastic sleeves with...
1 - The Bela Bartok's master works<br>Music for Strings, Percussion & Celesta<br>Sonata for 2 Pianos & Percussion<br>Allegro Barbaro<br>14 Bagattelles<br>The...
I've seen Bartok's 3rd Concerto played by the Fresno Philharmonic, and I've seen the complete Miraculous Mandarin performed by the Los Angeles Philharmonic,...
