Bartok - Piano Works
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Label: Urania
Cat No: LDV14074
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Instrumental
Release Date: 9th July 2021
Contents
Works
Bagatelles (14), op.6 Sz38 BB50Dirges (4), BB58
Easy Piano Pieces (10), BB51
Out of Doors, Sz81 BB89
Piano Suite, op.14 Sz62 BB70
Artists
Francesco Pasqualotto (piano)Works
Bagatelles (14), op.6 Sz38 BB50Dirges (4), BB58
Easy Piano Pieces (10), BB51
Out of Doors, Sz81 BB89
Piano Suite, op.14 Sz62 BB70
Artists
Francesco Pasqualotto (piano)About
Bartók’s first piano works of some importance are strongly influenced by Lisztian writing (for example the Rhapsody, op.1) and language, but already the 14 Bagatellas (1908) have a more dry writing.
These are songs, greeted with enthusiasm by Busoni, which present a very heterogeneous language, both for technical complexity (the former, for simplicity, would even seem to be designed as songs for beginners, while no.10 and no.14 are decidedly more difficult ), both as a language.
The Ten Easy Pieces were composed in the same year and somehow deepen the theme of “beginner songs” already present in the Bagatelles. The piece opens with a mysterious musical dedication, supernumerary compared to the ten pieces, in which we hear, clear and clear, again the theme-motto Stefi Geyer.
The first pieces are extremely simple, yet they always have a colour, an expression, a language of such interest as to make them absolutely effective even as concert pieces. As in the Piano Suite, op.14, a characteristic sign is the variety of language.
There are passages with a clear popular flavour (nos. 1, 2, 3, the splendid 5 that Bartók recorded several times, 6 and 8). Others have a more experimental language. Shortly afterwards the 4 Dirges, op.9 (1910), unfortunately and incomprehensibly rarely played.
The influence of Debussy is immediately felt in the first one, whose music had thrilled the Hungarian composer at that time.
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