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Bartók: Forty-Four Duos for Two Violins - Duo Landon

MS 1401

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Playing time: 49'53"
Tracks: 46
Booklet pages: 8
© 2012 Duo Landon
Reviewer: Howard Smith
Review of Bartók: Forty-Four Duos for Two Violins - Duo Landon published on 6 June 2012

Listen: Bartók: Canon (Prelude and Canon) (track 41, 1:40-2:19)

Duo Landon:
Hlíf Sigurjónsdóttir, violin
Hjörleifur Valsson, violin

Béla Bartók (1881-1945):

Forty-Four Duos for Two Violins, Sz 98 (1931)
(Performance order as suggested by Béla Bartók)

1 Transylvanian Dance (No 44)
2 Fairy Tale (No 19)
3 Burlesque (No 16)
4 Sorrow (No 28)
5 Pizzicato (No 43)
6 Bagpipes (No 36)
7 New Year's Greeting 1 (No 21)
8 Arabian Song (No 42)
9 Matchmaking Song (No 1)
10 Slovak Song (No 8)
11 Pillow Dance (No 14)
12 Hungarian Song 1 (No 6)
13 Rhythm Song (No 20)
14 Play Song (No 9)
15 Bride's Farewell (No 23)
16 Comic Song (No 24)
17 Scherzo (No 41)
18 Walachian Song (No 7)
19 Hungarian Song 2 (No 25)
20 Harvest Song (No 33)
21 Midsummer Night Song (No 4)
22 Counting Song (No 34)
23 Maypole Dance (No 2)
24 Limping Dance (No 27)
25 Lullaby (No 11)
26 Mosquito Dance (No 22)
27 New Year's Greeting 3 (No 30)
28 Wedding Song (No 13)
29 New Year's Greeting 4 (No 31)
30 Dance from Máramaros (No 32)
31 Soldier's Song (No 15)
32 Teasing Song (No 26)
33 Menuetto (No 3)
34 Slovakian Song 1 (No 5)
35 New Year's Greeting 2 (No 29)
36 Hay Harvesting Song (No 12)
37 Walachian Dance (No 40)
38 Hungarian March 1 (No 17)
39 Hungarian March 2 (No 18)
40 Romanian Whirling Dance (No 38)
41 Prelude and Canon (No 37)
42 Ruthenian Song (No 10)
43 Ruthenian Kolomejka (No 35)
44 Serbian Dance (No 39)
45 Bagpipes (No 36b)
46 Mosquito Dance - sul ponticello (No 22)

Violins by Christophe Landon, 2003 and 2004, both copies of Antonio Stradivarius violins from 1714. Bows by Isaac Salchow and Gilles Nehr.

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