James Ehnes's outstanding Bartók series for Chandos continues with the early romantic Sonata BB 28 (1903), Hungarian Folk Songs and Romanian Folk Dances. The key work, however, is the unaccompanied ...
Harriet Smith compares recordings of Bartok's Second Piano Concerto, widely recognised as one of the most technically challenging pieces in the repertoire, and makes a personal recommendation.
Bartok: Piano Concerto No. 2Bartok: Piano Concerto No. 2 ...
No doubt, Wigmore Hall’s Bartók Festival aimed to introduce London audiences to a cross-section of Bartók’s piano music as well as to his relationship to the piano, both as a composer and a pianist.
Historically-informed recordings of Bach's Brandenburgs are the norm now. Which is a good thing, though exposure to each new set can leave me craving a bit of naughty inauthenticity – those old modern ...
Bartok Piano Concertos Krystian Zimerman, Leif Ove Andsnes, Hélène Grimaud, various orchestras/Boulez (Deutsche Grammophon DG 00289 477 5330) Three of the world's outstanding pianists, three of the ...
Yefim Bronfman, piano; Los Angeles Philharmonic; Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor (Sony). Rare are the performers who make the necessary adjustments from the barbarism of Bartok’s first two piano ...
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