Composer: Béla Bartók
Performer: Andreas Bach
Number of Discs: 3
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Hänssler
Catalogue: HAEN98042
Release: 2015
Size: 684 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: cover
CD 01
Out of Doors, Sz. 81
01. I. With Drums and Pipes
02. II. Barcarolla
03. III. Musette
04. IV. Musiques nocturnes
05. V. The Chase
10 Easy Piano Pieces, Sz. 39
06. Dedication
07. No. 1, Peasant Song
08. No. 2, Painful Struggle
09. No. 3, Slovak Young Men’s Dance
10. No. 4, Sostenuto
11. No. 5, Evening in Transylvania
12. No. 6, Hungarian Folk Song
13. No. 7, Dawn
14. No. 8, Folk Song
15. No. 9, Finger Study
16. No. 10, Bear Dance
3 Burlesques, Op. 8c, Sz. 47
17. No. 1, Quarrel
18. No. 2, A Bit Drunk
19. No. 3, Molto vivo capriccioso
Petite Suite, Sz. 105
20. No. 1, Slow Dance
21. No. 2, Wallachian Dance
22. No. 3, Whirling Dance
23. No. 4, Quazi pizzicato
24. No. 5, Ruthenian Dance
25. No. 6, Bagpipes
4 Dirges, Op. 9a, Sz. 45
26. No. 1, Adagio
27. No. 2, Andante
28. No. 3, Poco lento
29. No. 4, Assai andante
CD 02
3 Studies, Op. 18, Sz. 72
01. No. 1, Allegro molto
02. No. 2, Andante sostenuto
03. No. 3, Rubato – Tempo giusto capriccioso
Sonatina, Sz. 55
04. I. Bagpipes. Allegretto
05. II. Bear Dance. Moderato
06. III. Finale. Allegro vivace
Piano Sonata, Sz. 80
07. I. Allegro moderato
08. II. Sostenuto e pesante
09. III. Allegro molto
7 Sketches, Op. 9b, Sz. 44
10. No. 1, Portrait of a Young Girl. Andante
11. No. 2, See-Saw. Comodo
12. No. 3, Lento
13. No. 4, Non troppo lento
14. No. 5, Romanian Folk Song. Andante
15. No. 6, In Wallachian Style. Allegretto
16. No. 7, Poco lento
Dance Suite, Sz. 77
17. I. Moderato
18. II. Allegro molto
19. III. Allegro vivace
20. IV. Molto tranquillo
21. V. Comodo
22. VI. Finale. Allegro
CD 03
01. Allegro barbaro, Sz. 49
9 Little Pieces, Sz. 82
02. No. 1, Moderato
03. No. 2, Andante
04. No. 3, Lento
05. No. 4, Allegro vivace
06. No. 5, Menuetto. Moderato
07. No. 6, Air. Allegro
08. No. 7, Marcia delle bestie. Comodo
09. No. 8, Tambourine. Allegro molto
10. No. 9, Preludio – All’ungherese
Suite, Op. 14, Sz. 62
11. I. Allegretto
12. II. Scherzo
13. III. Allegro molto
14. IV. Sostenuto
14 Bagatelles, Op. 6, Sz. 38
15. No. 1, Molto sostenuto
16. No. 2, Allegro giocoso
17. No. 3, Andante
18. No. 4, Grave
19. No. 5, Vivo
20. No. 6, Lento
21. No. 7, Allegretto molto capriccioso
22. No. 8, Andante sostenuto
23. No. 9, Allegretto grazioso
24. No. 10, Allegro
25. No. 11, Allegretto molto rubato
26. No. 12, Rubato
27. No. 13, Elle est morte. Lento funebre
28. No. 14, Valse “M’amie qui danse”. Presto
The First Term at the Piano, Sz. 53
29. No. 1, Moderato
30. No. 2, Moderato
31. No. 3, Dialogue. Moderato
32. No. 4, Dialogue. Moderato
33. No. 5, Moderato
34. No. 6, Moderato
35. No. 7, Folk Song. Moderato
36. No. 8, Andante
37. No. 9, Andante
38. No. 10, Folk Song. Allegro
39. No. 11, Menuett. Andante
40. No. 12, Swineherd’s Dance. Allegro
41. No. 13, Where Have You Been, My Lambkin? – Folk Song
42. No. 14, Andante
43. No. 15, Wedding Dance. Moderato
44. No. 16, Peasant’s Dance. Allegro moderato
45. No. 17, Allegro deciso
46. No. 18, Waltz. Tempo di valse
47. Andante (Deleted 2nd Movement of Suite for Piano, Op. 14, Sz. 62)
In the years since the acclaimed recordings made by the Hungarian pianist Zoltán Kocsis back in the 1980s and 90s, no single pianist has attempted to record a complete edition of Bartók’s works for solo piano! For a quarter of a century, no new comprehensive perspective on this multifaceted oeuvre has been cast, an important and varied, yet internally cohesive body of work that displays so many different aspects of Bartók’s creativity. This is exactly what the German pianist Andreas Bach has set out to achieve – “… to find the young Bartók in the late works as well as the late Bartók in the early works. And (…) create a recording that presents a Bartók different from those usually encountered and which are by contrast, ‘middle-of-the-road’. Emphasizing “not only the rhythmic and folkloric content, but also providing an opportunity to discover Bartók‘s harmonic thinking”, an aspect of the composer’s language that few fans had the opportunity to appreciate before.
Volume1 of this new complete edition presents individual works that Bartók composed in his mature, personal style, including the Sonata, the Sonatina, the Suite op. 14, and the 14 Bagatelles; folk music influences are present but only as distant references. The next 4 CDs will focus on the “Romantic Bartók” and will include his early works, compositions written early in his career and still showing influences of 19th century Romantic idiom. CD 5 “Bartók and Folk Music” is dedicated to his works, and arrangements most directly influenced by folk music. The remaining CDs (Vols. 6-8) are devoted to the major cycles “For Children” and “Mikrokosmos “.