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In Reply to: RE: The Ascendancy of Bartok posted by Amphissa on March 14, 2011 at 07:25:45
But I have always considered Bartok the only twentieth-century European in the Pantheon, ever since I played some of the Mikrokosmos on the piano--the simplest ones--and heard from my own fingers that depth he could render from a very few notes.
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The very first piano music I ever played, aged 6. IMO, only Bach wrote as skillfully for children.
His quartets, too, are notable. Orchestral performances are not the only measure.
Kal
Bartok's piano concertos 1 and 2, and the second violin concerto are masterpieces. I'm particularly fond of the second piano concerto, although the all-wind instrumentation and the often-percussive piano writing can come across as shrill and brittle on a lot of well performed recordings (e.g., Pollini/Abbado, Andnes/Boulez). The Bronfman Salonen LA Phil performance has great sound and it's a hell of a performance available in a cheap Sony reissue.
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