Performer: Tamara Takacs, Balázs Szokolay, Jenö Jandó
Composer: Bela Bartok
Audio CD
SPARS Code: DDD
Number of Discs: 2
Format: FLAC (tracks+cue)
Label: Naxos
Size: 449 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
CD 01
01 – No. 1 / Six Unison Melodies (1)
02 – No. 2 / Six Unison Melodies (2) (versions A and B)
03 – No. 3 / Six Unison Melodies (3)
04 – No. 4 / Six Unison Melodies (4)
05 – No. 5 / Six Unison Melodies (5)
06 – No. 6 / Six Unison Melodies (6)
07 – No. 7 / Dotted Notes
08 – No. 8 / Repetition (1)
09 – No. 9 / Syncopation (1)
10 – No. 10 / With Alternate Hands
11 – No. 11 / Parallel Motion
12 – No. 12 / Reflection
13 – No. 13 / Change Of Position
14 – No. 14 / Question And Answer
15 – No. 15 / Village Song
16 – No. 16 / Parallel Motion With Change Of Position
17 – No. 17 / Contrary Motion
18 – No. 18 / Four Unison Melodies (1)
19 – No. 19 / Four Unison Melodies (2)
20 – No. 20 / Four Unison Melodies (3)
21 – No. 21 / Four Unison Melodies (4)
22 – No. 22 / Imitation And Counterpoint
23 – No. 23 / Imitation And Innversion (1)
24 – No. 24 / Pastorale
25 – No. 25 / Imitation And Inversion (2)
26 – No. 26 / Repetition (2)
27 – No. 27 / Syncopation (2)
28 – No. 28 / Canon At The Octave
29 – No. 29 / Imitation Reflected
30 – No. 30 / Canon At The Lower Fifth
31 – No. 31 / Dance In Canon Form
32 – No. 32 / In Dorian Mode
33 – No. 33 / Slow Dance
34 – No. 34 / In Phrygian Mode
35 – No. 35 / Chorale
36 – No. 36 / Free Canon
37 – No. 37 / In Lydian Mode
38 – No. 38 / Staccato And Legato (1)
39 – No. 39 / Staccato And Legato (Canon)
40 – No. 40 / In Yugoslav Style
41 – No. 41 / Melody With Accompaniment
42 – No. 42 / Accompaniment In Broken Triads
43 – No. 43 / In Hungarian Style (Version A: 2 Pianos **, Version B Piano Solo)
44 – No. 44 / Contrary Motion (2) (2 Pianos) **
45 – No. 45 / Meditation
46 – No. 46 / Increasing Diminishing
47 – No. 47 / County Fair
48 – No. 48 / In Mixolydian Mode
49 – No. 49 / Crescendo Diminuendo
50 – No. 50 / Minuetto
51 – No. 51 / Waves
52 – No. 52 / Unison Divided
53 – No. 53 / In Transylvanian Style
54 – No. 54 / Chromatics
55 – No. 55 / Triplets In Lydian Mode (2 Pianos) **
56 – No. 56 / Melody In Tenths
57 – No. 57 / Accents
58 – No. 58 / In Oriental Style
59 – No. 59 / Major And Minor
60 – No. 60 / Canon With Sustained Notes
61 – No. 61 / Pentatonic Melody
62 – No. 62 / Minor Sixths In Parallel Motion
63 – No. 63 / Buzzing
64 – No. 64 / Line Against Point (Versions A And B)
65 – No. 65 / Dialogue (With Voice)*
66 – No. 66 / Melody Divided
67 – No. 67 / Thirds Against A Single Voice
68 – No. 68 / Hungarian Dance (2 Pianos)**
69 – No. 69 / Study In Chords
70 – No. 70 / Melody Against Double Notes
71 – No. 71 / Thirds
72 – No. 72 / Dragons’ Dance
73 – No. 73 / Sixths And Triads
74 – No. 74 / Hungarian Matchmaking Song (Versions A And B Version B With Voice)*
75 – No. 75 / Triplets
76 – No. 76 / In Three Parts
77 – No. 77 / Little Study
78 – No. 78 / Five Tone Scale
79 – No. 79 / Homage To Johann Sebastian Bach
80 – No. 80 / Homage To Robert Schumann
81 – No. 81 / Wandering
82 – No. 82 / Scherzo
83 – No. 83 / Melody With Interruptions
84 – No. 84 / Merriment
85 – No. 85 / Broken Chords
86 – No. 86 / Two Major Pentachords
87 – No. 87 / Variations
88 – No. 88 / Duet For Pipes
89 – No. 89 / In Four Parts (1)
90 – No. 90 / In Russian Style
91 – No. 91 / Chromatic Invention (1)
92 – No. 92 / Chromatic Invention (2)
93 – No. 93 / In Four Parts (2)
94 – No. 94 / Once Upon A Time
95 – No. 95 / Fox Song (Versions A And B Version B With Voice)*
96 – No. 96 / Jolts
CD 02
01 – No. 97 / Notturno
02 – No. 98 / Thumbs Under
03 – No. 99 / Hands Crossing
04 – No. 100 / In Folk Song Style
05 – No. 101 / Diminished Fith
06 – No. 102 / Harmonics
07 – No. 103 / Minor and Major
08 – No. 104 / Wandering through the Keys
09 – No. 105 / Game (with two five tone scales)
10 – No. 106 / Children’s Song
11 – No. 107 / Melody in the Mist
12 – No. 108 / Wrestling
13 – No. 109 / From the Island of Bali
14 – No. 110 / And the Sounds Clash and Clang…
15 – No. 111 / Intermezzo
16 – No. 112 / Variations on a Folk Tune
17 – No. 113 / Bulgarian Rhythm 1
18 – No. 114 / Theme and Inversion
19 – No. 115 / Bulgarian Rhythm 2
20 – No. 116 / Song
21 – No. 117 / Bourree
22 – No. 118 / Triplets in 9/8 Time
23 – No. 119 / Dance in 3/4 Time
24 – No. 120 / Triads
25 – No. 121 / Two part Study
26 – No. 122 / Chords Together and in Opposition
27 – No. 123 / Staccato and Legato 2
28 – No. 124 / Staccato
29 – No. 125 / Boating
30 – No. 126 / Change of Time
31 – No. 127 / New Hungarian Folk Song (with voice)*
32 – No. 128 / Stamping Dance
33 – No. 129 / Alternating Thirds
34 – No. 130 / Village Joke
35 – No. 131 / Fourths
36 – No. 132 / Major Seconds Broken and Together
37 – No. 133 / Syncopation 3
38 – No. 134 / Studies in Double Notes
39 – No. 135 / Perpetuum mobile
40 – No. 136 / Whole tone Scales
41 – No. 137 / Unison
42 – No. 138 / Bagpipe Music
43 – No. 139 / Jack-in-the Box
44 – No. 140 / Free Variations
45 – No. 141 / Subject and Reflection
46 – No. 142 / From the Diary of a Fly
47 – No. 143 / Divided Arpeggios
48 – No. 144 / Minor Seconds, Major Sevenths
49 – No. 145 / Chromatic Invention 3
50 – No. 146 / Ostinato
51 – No. 147 / March
52 – No. 148 / Six Dances in Bulgarian Rhythm 1
53 – No. 149 / Six Dances in Bulgarian Rhythm 2
54 – No. 150 / Six Dances in Bulgarian Rhythm 3
55 – No. 151 / Six Dances in Bulgarian Rhythm 4
56 – No. 152 / Six Dances in Bulgarian Rhythm 5
57 – No. 153 / Six Dances in Bulgarian Rhythm 6
One fantastic work.One fantastic pianist
Mikrokosmos is really one fantastic didactic work . Bartók wrote one method very interesting because the student has one contact with the innovations of the musical language that was transformed at the beginning of the twentieth century . We have modal melodies , changing of bars , polytonality , etc. Normally the musical education forgets all this things. With Mikrokosmos we have this fantastic opportunity to make one “modernization” of piano and music for beginners .Bartók was one of the most important composers of the first half of his century. But he was too one very important teacher. The value of the music of Mikrokosmos is very high , even in the most simple parts of the work.
If I love Bartók as composer I must say that Jeno Jandó , one of the most important pianists in the world, respected what was written in accents, andamenti, articulation and expression. I listened the 6 books with the score. And I must say that Jandó made a very important and beautiful work. I admire this pianist for his recordings of the “adults” works of Bartók: the Out of Doors Suite , the Suite op. 14 , the Sonata etc. But this time he came really at a level never reached for his predecessors.
MIkrokosmos : one fantastic work played and recorded in a very high level. I’m really very happy after heard this beautiful record. Bravo Naxos. Bravo Jandó. And bravo for the didactic work of this great composer.
Grazie Grazie
Many Thanks