Composer: Béla Bartók
Performer: Andreas Bach
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Hänssler
Catalogue: HC17009
Release: 2017
Size: 226 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: cover
For Children, Sz. 42 Vol. 1 (Revised Version)
01. No. 1. Children at Play (Allegro)
02. No. 2. Children’s Song (Andante)
03. No. 3. Quasi adagio
04. No. 4. Pillow Dance (Allegro)
05. No. 5. Play (Allegretto)
06. No. 6. Study for the Left Hand (Allegro)
07. No. 7. Playsong (Andante grazioso)
08. No. 8. Children’s Game (Allegretto)
09. No. 9. Song (Adagio)
10. No. 10. Children’s Dance (Allegro molto)
11. No. 11. Lento
12. No. 12. Allegro
13. No. 13. Ballad (Andante)
14. No. 14. Allegretto
15. No. 15. Allegro moderato
16. No. 16. Old Hungarian Tune (Andante rubato)
17. No. 17. Round Dance (Lento)
18. No. 18. Soldier’s Song (Andante non troppo)
19. No. 19. Allegretto
20. No. 20. Drinking Song (Allegro)
21. No. 21. Allegro robusto
For Children, Sz. 42 Vol. 2 (Revised Version)
22. No. 22. Allegretto
23. No. 23. Dance Song (Allegro grazioso)
24. No. 24. Andante sostenuto
25. No. 25. Parlando
26. No. 26. Moderato
27. No. 27. Jest (Allegramente)
28. No. 28. Andante
29. No. 29. Allegro scherzando
30. No. 30. Allegro ironico
31. No. 31. Andante tronquillo
32. No. 32. Andante
33. No. 33. Allegro non troppo
34. No. 34. Allegretto
35. No. 35. Con moto
36. No. 36. Drunkard’s Song (Vivace)
37. No. 37. Swinehard’s Song (Allegro)
38. No. 38. Winter Solstice Song (Molto vivace)
39. No. 39. Allegro moderato
40. No. 40. Swineherd’s Dance (Allegro vivace)
For Children, Sz. 42 Vol. 3 (Revised Version)
41. No. 41. Allegro
42. No. 42. Andante
43. No. 43. Allegretto
44. No. 44. Wedding Song (Andante)
45. No. 45. Variations (Molto andante)
46. No. 46. Round Dance (Allegro)
47. No. 47. Sorrow (Andante)
48. No. 48. Dance (Allegro non troppo)
49No. 49. Round Dance II (Andante)
50No. 50. Funeral Song (Largo)
Bartók’s For Children series, although a pedagogical work, contains little pieces which were partly also designed for concert performance. The later Mikrokosmos is in this respect different since it was conceived as a special piano method and also because the first two volumes of the six volumes contain simple exercises and studies never intended for the concert hall. The composer himself pointed out this difference in a lecture recital held at American Universities and Colleges in the early 1940s. It was during this period of his voluntary exile in the United States that he discussed with his publisher, Boosey & Hawkes, the possibility of a new edition of this series composed three decades earlier and unavailable on the market in the US because of the war. The version which Bartók prepared for publication in 1943 was in fact a partly revised, almost a lightly translated, one directed towards an international, first of all English and American public, unfamiliar with the history and folklore of Eastern Europe. It was finally published in this revised form in 1946, shortly after the composer death.