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Béla Bartók Piano Music

MS 1410

DDD
Stereo
NEW RELEASE

Playing time: 78'20"
Tracks: 45
Booklet pages: 12
© 2015 Terry Eder
Reviewer: Gerald Fenech
Review of Béla Bartók Piano Music published on 18 November 2015

Listen: Bartók: Poco allegro (Romanian Dances Op 8/a SZ 43) (track 16, 0:00-1:01)

Terry Eder, piano (Hamburg Steinway D)

Béla Bartók (1881-1945):

Fourteen Bagatelles, Op 6 SZ 38 (1908, revised 1945)
1 Bagatelle No 1: Molto sostenuto
2 Bagatelle No 2: Allegro giocoso
3 Bagatelle No 3: Andante
4 Bagatelle No 4: Grave
5 Bagatelle No 5: Vivo
6 Bagatelle No 6: Lento
7 Bagatelle No 7: Allegretto molto capriccioso
8 Bagatelle No 8: Andante sostenuto
9 Bagatelle No 9: Allegretto grazioso
10 Bagatelle No 10: Allegro
11 Bagatelle No 11: Allegretto molto rubato
12 Bagatelle No 12: Rubato
13 Bagatelle No 13: 'Elle est morte': Lento funebre
14 Bagatelle No 14: Valse 'Ma mie qui danse': Presto

Two Romanian Dances, Op 8/a, SZ 43 (1910)
15 Romanian Dance No 1: Allegro vivace (1909)
16 Romanian Dance No 2: Poco allegro (1910)

Fifteen Hungarian Peasant Songs, SZ 71 (1914-18)
Four Old Sorrowful Songs
17 Rubato
18 Andante
19 Poco rubato
20 Andante

21 Scherzo (Allegro)
22 Ballade (Tema con variazioni)

Old Dance Tunes
23 Allegro
24 Allegretto
25 Allegretto
26 L'istesso tempo
27 Assai moderato
28 Allegretto
29 Poco più vivo - Allegretto
30 Allegro
31 Allegro - Più vivo - Poco più meno vivo

Improvisations on Hungarian Peasant Songs, Op 20 SZ 74 (1920, corrected by P Bartók 2002)
32 Molto moderato
33 Molto capriccioso
34 Lento, rubato
35 Allegretto scherzando
36 Allegro molto
37 Allegro moderato, molto capriccioso
38 Sostenuto, rubato
39 Allegro

Six Dances in Bulgarian Rhythm (from Mikrokosmos, Vol VI, SZ 107)
40 Mikrokosmos No 148
41 Mikrokosmos No 149
42 Mikrokosmos No 150
43 Mikrokosmos No 151
44 Mikrokosmos No 152
45 Mikrokosmos No 153

Recorded 29-31 July 2014 in the Recital Hall of the Performing Arts Center, Purchase College, State University of New York, USA

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