A Country to Make
Donald Macleod explores the early musical life of B茅la Bart贸k. While he didn鈥檛 show early compositional talent, Bart贸k was expected to have a brilliant career as a pianist.
Donald Macleod explores the early musical life of B茅la Bart贸k.
Among the list of elements that feed into the formation of an outstanding musician might be good teaching, a quality instrument, focus, determination, consistency, encouragement.
But there is also the brute fact of physiology.
B茅la Bart贸k may have been of slight build and somewhat sickly, but he had unusually large hands. So while he didn鈥檛 show any exceptional compositional talent as a young man, he was expected to have a brilliant career as a pianist.
For Children
Andreas Bach, piano
Piano Concerto No. 3
Budapest Festival Orchestra
Ivan Fisher, conductor
Andras Schiff, piano
Contrasts
Ensemble Intercontemporain
Matthias Pintscher, conductor
Hungarian Sketches
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Pierre Boulez, conductor
Kossuth
Budapest Festival Orchestra
Ivan Fisher, conductor
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B茅la Bart贸k
For Children, Sz 42
Performer: Andreas Bach.- HANSSLER : HC17009.
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B茅la Bart贸k
Piano Concerto No 3, Sz 119 (1st mvt)
Performer: Sir Andr谩s Schiff. Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Iv谩n Fischer.- TELDEC : 0630-13158-2.
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B茅la Bart贸k
Contrasts, Sz 111
Orchestra: Ensemble intercontemporain. Conductor: Matthias Pintscher.- ALPHA : ALPHA217.
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B茅la Bart贸k
Hungarian Sketches, Sz 97
Conductor: Pierre Boulez.- DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON : 445-825-2.
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B茅la Bart贸k
Kossuth
Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Iv谩n Fischer.- PHILIPS : 456-575-2.
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