Bela Bartok

A superb collection of 15 songs for Piano Solo by Hungarian composer Bela Bartok.

Stylish Arrangements Of Selected Highlights From The Leading 20Th Century Composer. The Boosey

Long before his famous Mikrokosmos Bart?k composed a comprehensive collection of little piano pieces entitled For Children. Written in 1908 1911 its two volumes are based on Hungarian and Slovakian folk tunes respectively. Bothare organised in ascending difficulty from simple two-part pieces to Impressionistic miniatures and they offer everything that children???s hands can manage. Bart?k revised this collection in the 1940s. He did not just makemusical improvements but also gave every movement a title. This revised version forms the main text of our Urtext edition while an appendix offers movements from the early version that diverge significantly from the revisedones. As always in Henle???s Bart?k editions there are indications regarding performance practice and insights into how the composer himself played these pieces.

L'édition définitive (1987) de piano enseignement classique. Comprend une introduction par le fils du compositeur Peter Bartók. En 1945 Bela Bartok décrit le ' Mikrokosmos ' comme un cycle de 153 pièces pour piano écrite pour fins de ' didactiques ', voyant comme un ser / Piano / Partition

For Mixed Voices. Béla Bartók Complete Critical Edition (Z. 15009), this volume includes Bartók's complete works for mixed voices. The lyrics in this Urtext edition are in the original languages and in the translations authorized by the composer. Literal English translations are provided in the appendix.The edition is complete with an informative preface (in Hungarian, English, and German) and detailed Editorial Comments (in Hungarian and English). The Comments give an overview of the textual, folk-music, and compositional sources, and provide detailed information on the performance practice of Bartók's choral works. The edition has been printed on high-quality and environmentally-friendly paper.This volume is also available cloth-bound, along with the volumes for children's and female voices and for male voices, in slipcase (Z. 20076). Separate editions of each work included in this volume are also available.

No. 4 Love Song-Love Song for SATB choir a cappella from Bela Bartok's Four Hungarian Folksongs. English and German texts.

In Bartók's career the period between 1910 and 1914 was devoted to intensive folk song collecting work. In those years his attention was focussed principally on Romanian folk music (in 1913 he published for example the Bihar collection and most of the Máramaros collection: in March 1913 in just two weeks he recorded 209 songs). The inspiration gained from his collecting journeys in Romania first appeared in the vocal folk song arrangements he composed in 1915 and in the smaller-scale moderately difficult piano series based on Romanian folk music material the Romanian Folk Dances Kolindák and the Sonatina. In the three movements of the Sonatina ('Pipers' 'Bears' Dance' and'Finale') Bartók used altogether five original Romanian melodies. In 1931 he made an orchestral arrangement of this exceptionally popular work and entitled it Transylvanian Dances. (Hungaroton HCD 31604)