Bartok - Complete Works for Violin Vol.1: Early Works & Transcriptions
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Label: Brilliant Classics
Cat No: 9236
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Chamber
Release Date: 17th October 2011
Contents
Works
An Evening in the VillageAndante in A major, BB26b
Hungarian Folk Tunes (10) for Violin and Piano
Hungarian Folksongs (8), Sz64
Romanian Folk Dances (6) for piano, Sz56 BB68 (arr. Zoltan Szekely for violin and piano)
Slovak Folk Songs (10) (trans. from 'For Children' by A. Mozi)
Sonatina, BB69 Sz55
Violin Sonata in E minor, BB28
Artists
Antal Zalai (violin)Jozsef Balog (piano)
Works
An Evening in the VillageAndante in A major, BB26b
Hungarian Folk Tunes (10) for Violin and Piano
Hungarian Folksongs (8), Sz64
Romanian Folk Dances (6) for piano, Sz56 BB68 (arr. Zoltan Szekely for violin and piano)
Slovak Folk Songs (10) (trans. from 'For Children' by A. Mozi)
Sonatina, BB69 Sz55
Violin Sonata in E minor, BB28
Artists
Antal Zalai (violin)Jozsef Balog (piano)
About
The first volume offers early works and transcriptions, most of them with strong Hungarian folk music influence.
These are excellent performances by Hungarian violinist Antal Zalai (formerly named Szalai) and Jozsef Balog, who already proved their superb skills in their recording of the Enescu violin sonatas on Brilliant Classics 9165.
In the early 1900s, the young composer had studied many of Strauss’s scores, attempting a symphony in E flat. Gradually the music of his native Hungary began to influence his musical voice, as can be heard in the E minor violin sonata.
The Austro-German musical hold on Bartok was slipping. He took to wearing Hungarian national clothes, and rebelled at speaking German at home. Shortly after completing the violin sonata in 1903, he left for the countryside, where he became interested in the folk music and songs of his countrymen. His research with fellow composer Zoltan Kodaly of Hungarian folk music is famous, but Bartók went beyond national boundaries for inspiration, as can be heard in the Transylvanian, Romanian and Slovak folk material featured on this disc of his early works for violin and piano.
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