Bela Bartok

The Mikrokosmos is a cycle of 153 pieces for piano written with a didactic purpose. That is to give the piano pieces which can be used from the very beginning and then going on it is graded according to difficulties. The title Mikrokosmos can be interpreted as a series of pieces in many different styles representing a small world. This edition has been written in English French German and Hungarian.

This is the new definitive collection for piano edited by Peter Bartók of Bartók's For Children based on Hungarian Folk Tunes.

The Mikrokosmos is a cycle of 153 pieces for piano written with a didactic purpose. That is to give the piano pieces which can be used from the very beginning and then going on it is graded according to difficulties. The title Mikrokosmos can be interpreted as a series of pieces in many different styles representing a small world. This edition has been written in English French German and Hungarian.

One of Béla Bartók's best-known and most popular works for Piano the Allegro Barbaro was composed in 1910-11. Bartók himself enjoyed performing the piece in concerts and recorded it severaltimes. A recording from 1929 referred to by Bartók as the ?authentic recording? contains very interesting departures from the printed version as far as tempo articulation and even the number of ostinatomeasures are concerned. These elements have been included in the musical text for the first time in this Henle Urtext edition and are clearly annotated. With this first Bartók Urtext edition editor László Somfai offers aninsight into the many and varied musical impulses that will be demonstrated in the Béla Bartók Complete Critical Edition which will be jointly published by Editio Musica Budapest and G. Henle from 2016.

This is a fantastic work in the concert repertoire for Solo Viola with its lyrical integrity and virtuosic passages this truly is an exciting Concerto for Viola and Orchestra. This version is for Viola with Piano reduction.The solo viola part is also included on a separate insert and has been edited by William Primrose.

Bartok’s Violin Concerto No.2 is an exciting work which is available here as a miniature score for study and reference purposes.Bela Bartok's interest in variation as a compositional method was most fully realised in this Concerto which he completed in 1938 and dedicated to his dear friend Zoltan Szekely. This is a detailed yet unostentatious Concerto in which the variations and intense expression the piece to life.

Composées en 1915 les Danses populaires roumaines comptent parmi les ?uvres les plus connues de Bartók ? et ce sous de multiples formes car outre les diverses éditions de la version pour piano et une orchestration plus tardive de Bartók lui-même il existe également des arrangements réalisés par des contemporains avec l?accord du compositeur. On peut aujourd?hui même avoir recours à des enregistrements des danses par Bartók lui-même; ces derniers avec des reprises variées et enrichies de doublures à l?octave illustrent en quelque sorte la «version de concert» des danses. Le spécialiste de Bartók László Somfai a mis de l?ordre dans cette abondante documentation et présente dansla Henle-Urtextausgabe les variantes essentielles pour le musicien directement dans le texte musical.

This is a new edition of Béla Bartók?s popular Romanian Folk Dances in its original scoring for Solo Piano. With fascinating background notes and unique imagery this publication is essential for pianistsinterested in the work of the Hungarian composer.When Bartók?was just 23 years old he visited the Transylvanian town of?Gerlicepuszta. Overhearing a lullaby sung by a teenage servant girl named LidiDósa he quizzed her about it and noted it down. This was the beginning of a passion for folk music that would go on to change the course of the composer's life and work. Romanian FolkDances?remains one of Bartók's most popular and enduring works evoking the folk melodies combined with his own idiosyncratic harmonies and textures. Each of the six short pieces here is based on atraditional melody which Bartók?penned during his travels.? Including newly engraved masterpieces?Stick Dance Waistband Dance In One Spot Dance From Butschum Romanian Polkaand Fast Dance this sheet music collection features editorial revisions guided by recordings of Bartók's own performance. The notation also includes fingering guidancethroughout. Romanian Folk Dances also?features a specially-written introduction as well as some fantastic photographs that both tell the story of the young composer and the intriguingbackstory of this work.? One of the most important 20th century composers and along with Liszt one of Hungary's finest musical minds Bartók?held a strong fascination for folkmusic. Through his studies recordings and arrangements he composed some incredible music like these?Romanian Folk Dances ?while simultaneously initiating the field of

Bartok wrote his Piano Concerto No.3 during the summer of 1945 intending it as a birthday present to his wife Ditta on 31st October. By this time he was already gravely ill; however he was able to finish the score with the exception of the last seventeen bars which he notated in a kind of musical shorthand. These last bars were later deciphered and scored by his pupil and friend Tibor Serly. This is a reduction for 2 Pianos four hands by Matyas Seiber.