A Country to Make
Donald Macleod explores the early musical life of Béla Bartók. While he didn’t show early compositional talent, Bartók was expected to have a brilliant career as a pianist.
Donald Macleod explores the early musical life of Béla Bartók.
Among the list of elements that feed into the formation of an outstanding musician might be good teaching, a quality instrument, focus, determination, consistency, encouragement.
But there is also the brute fact of physiology.
Béla Bartók may have been of slight build and somewhat sickly, but he had unusually large hands. So while he didn’t show any exceptional compositional talent as a young man, he was expected to have a brilliant career as a pianist.
For Children
Andreas Bach, piano
Piano Concerto No. 3
Budapest Festival Orchestra
Ivan Fisher, conductor
Andras Schiff, piano
Contrasts
Ensemble Intercontemporain
Matthias Pintscher, conductor
Hungarian Sketches
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Pierre Boulez, conductor
Kossuth
Budapest Festival Orchestra
Ivan Fisher, conductor
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Béla Bartók
For Children, Sz 42
Performer: Andreas Bach.- HANSSLER : HC17009.
- HANSSLER.
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Béla Bartók
Piano Concerto No 3, Sz 119 (1st mvt)
Performer: Sir András Schiff. Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Iván Fischer.- TELDEC : 0630-13158-2.
- TELDEC.
- 7.
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Béla Bartók
Contrasts, Sz 111
Orchestra: Ensemble intercontemporain. Conductor: Matthias Pintscher.- ALPHA : ALPHA217.
- ALPHA.
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Béla Bartók
Hungarian Sketches, Sz 97
Conductor: Pierre Boulez.- DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON : 445-825-2.
- DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON.
- 9.
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Béla Bartók
Kossuth
Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Iván Fischer.- PHILIPS : 456-575-2.
- PHILIPS.
- 9.
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- Mon 20 Sep 202112:00BBC Radio 3
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