Béla Bartók

Eine Auswahl von 12 ungarischen Volksweisen aus der Klaviersammlung für fünfstimmigen Blockflötenchor. Sopran-Blockflöte in c (2), Alt-Blockflöte in f,g, Tenor-Blockflöte in c,d, Bass-Blockflöte in f...

Movement titles: I. Allegro non-troppo, II. Andante, III. Allegro giocoso

Hardbound

HPS 27

To make myself clear: This is not programme music, it does not require an explanation attached to it; it speaks for itself. What it wishes to say it does by means of pure music. But it does say someth...

The fourth string quartet embodies that moment in Bartók's art in which the composer, surpassing the concentrated and retrospective third quartet, reaches a summit for the first time and casts his gaz...

Bartok's String Quartet No. 5 was commissioned by the formidable Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge, leading patron of chamber music in the U. S. in the first half of the 20th century. Bartok is alleged to ha...