Bartók: Hungarian Folk Songs

This page lists all recordings of Hungarian Folk Songs, by Béla Bartók (1881-1945) on CD & DVD. Generally, more recent CDs and DVDs are listed first, but with priority given to items that are in stock.

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A Natural Born Fiddler

A Natural Born Fiddler

This DVD introduces the unbelievable talents of Valeriy Sokolov


Bartók:

Hungarian Folk Songs

(Szigeti)

Beethoven:

Violin Sonata No. 7 in C minor, Op. 30 No. 2

Dvorak:

Songs My Mother Taught Me, Op. 55 No. 4

(Persinger)

Prokofiev:

Violin Sonata No. 2 in D major, Op. 94a

Saint-Saëns:

Introduction & Rondo capriccioso, Op. 28

Skorikh:

Spanish Dance

Ysaye:

Sonata for solo violin in D minor, Op. 27 No. 3 'Ballade'


Valeriy Sokolov (violin)

A film by Bruno Monsaingeon

‘It was in Britain, in the spring of 2003, at the Yehudi Menuhin School, that I first had the opportunity to hear Valeriy Sokolov play. I had only just learned of his existence when he offered to play me the Ysaÿe Sonata. As he did so, not the slightest tension marred the impression he gave of total ease with his instrument, absolute control of technique, a musical maturity which made the fact that he was only sixteen completely irrelevant, and above all an utter abandonment to the flow of the music... I was seized by a compulsion to try and capture Valeriy Sokolov in all the freshness of his youth as soon as possible. So I made this film...’ Bruno Monsaingeon

Format: NTSC

Language: English

Region: All Regions

Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1

Number of discs: 1

DVD Release Date: September 12, 2006

Run Time: 93 minutes

Subtitles - English, French

DVD Video

Region: 0

Format: NTSC

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Virgin - 3592849

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Bartók:

Hungarian Folk Songs

Ten Easy Piano Pieces, Sz. 39, BB 51

3 Rondos on Slovak Folk Tunes, BB 92, Sz. 84

Debussy:

Estampes (3) (Complete)

Children's Corner

Danse - Tarantelle styrienne


Tamas Vesmas (piano)

Ode Records - CDMANU1521

(CD)

$16.99

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Bartók - Music for Solo Violin & Violin and Piano

Bartók - Music for Solo Violin & Violin and Piano


Bartók:

Andante

Violin Sonata in E minor, BB28

Hungarian Folk Songs

for violin and piano

Sonata for Solo Violin, BB 124, Sz. 117


Elise Båtnes (violin) & Håvard Gimse (piano)

Béla Bartók’s music for the violin occupies an important position in his creative output. The instrument attracted him at intervals throughout his career, from the Andante of 1902 to the magnificently disciplined Sonata for Violin Solo, written in 1944. Norwegian Elise Båtnes, newly appointed concertmaster of the Oslo Philharmonics, makes her international debut release as a soloist with a selection of these phenomenal works, revealing a mature interpreter and an outstanding violinist.

The earliest surviving work by Bartók for violin and piano is the Andante in A major composed in 1902 while he was a student at the Budapest Academy of Music. It seems to have been written for a fellow-student destined for fame as a violinist, namely Adila d’Aranyi, niece of Joseph Joachim. The work was written as a kind of friendly message on a series of six postcards. The Sonata in E minor was written only one year later, but it reveals a more ambitious composer audibly inspired by both the virtuosity of Liszt, Hungarian folk music, the chromatic harmony of Richard Strauss and the violin sonatas of Brahms.

Bartók and Kodály, as professional ethnomusicologists, uncovered the old, authentic Hungarian folk music by going into the countryside with a phonograph and recording the actual melodies people sang and danced to. They published their first joint collection of folksongs in 1906, and Bartók published his piano pieces entitled “For Children” in 1909. In 1931 Bartók transcribed several numbers under the title Hungarian Folk Songs for violin and piano. Bartók’s Sonata for unaccompanied violin was one of his last compositions. It was written early in 1944 for Yehudi Menuhin, who had begun to emerge as a notable interpreter of Bartók’s violin music. The composer worked on the piece in close collaboration with Menuhin, who gave the world premiere in New York on 26 November 1944 and subsequently edited the score for publication.

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Simax - PSC1174

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Hungarian Songs

Hungarian Songs


Bartók:

Hungarian Folk Songs

Vol. 2 1906-07

8 Hungarian Folksongs, BB 47, Sz. 64

Kodály:

The Ballad Of Annie Miller, ‘From distant mountains’

Ligeti:

Three Songs on Poems by Sándor Weöres

Five Songs on Poems by János Arany


Andrea Rost (soprano) & Izabella Simon (piano)

“I’ve got a new plan now: to put together the most beautiful Hungarian folksongs and raise them to the level of arts songs by providing each with the best possible piano accompaniment.” Béla Bartók

Recorded at Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music Budapest, Great Hall, 2007

Warner Classics - 5144270142

(CD)

$17.49

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Irén Marik: from Bach to Bartók

Irén Marik: from Bach to Bartók

Recordings 1956-1983


Bach, J S:

Prelude & Fugue in G minor, BWV535: Prelude

(trans. Siloti)

French Suite No. 5 in G major, BWV816

Bartók:

Hungarian Folk Songs

Hungarian Sketches, BB 103, Sz. 97

Bagatelles (selection)

Mikrokosmos (selection)

For Children, Sz42

Beethoven:

Piano Sonata No. 14 in C sharp minor, Op. 27 No. 2 ‘Moonlight'

Piano Sonata No. 32 in C minor, Op. 111

Chopin:

Nocturne No. 1 in B flat minor, Op. 9 No. 1

Couperin, F:

Ordres pour le clavecin

Liszt:

Consolation, S. 172 No. 3 in D flat major

Ravel:

Jeux d'eau

Oiseaux tristes (Miroirs No. 2)

Sonatine

Scarlatti, D:

Keyboard Sonata K394 in E minor

Keyboard Sonata K27 in B minor

Scriabin:

Etude in C sharp minor, Op. 2 No. 1


Irén Marik (piano)

This second volume of Irén Marik's art consists mostly of unpublished recordings made in studios and at home from 1955 - 1983. Her highly individual and structural approach explores a carefully chosen repertoire. An insight further developed while Marik studied with Bartók is applied to all the composers she performed.

Arbiter - ARBITER149

(CD)

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Tears and Smiles

Tears and Smiles


Bartók:

Hungarian Folk Songs

Bodorova:

Seven Slovak Folk Songs

Schneider-Trnavsky:

Tears and Smiles, Op. 25

From My Heart


Stefan Margita (tenor), Katerina Bachmannova (piano)

Arco Diva - UP0084-2131

(CD)

$17.49

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Hungarian Folk Songs

Hungarian Folk Songs


Bartók:

Hungarian Folk Songs

Kodály:

Hungarian Folk Songs

Lajtha:

Hungarian Folk Songs


Andrea Meláth (mezzo-soprano), Emese Virág (piano)

Hungaroton - HCD31933

(CD)

$18.49

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Bartok - Complete Violin Works

Bartok - Complete Violin Works


Bartók:

Violin Concerto No. 1, BB48a, Sz 36

Violin Concerto No. 2, Sz 112

Rhapsody for Violin & Orchestra No. 1, BB 94b, Sz. 87

Rhapsody for Violin & Orchestra No. 2, BB 96b, Sz. 90

Violin Sonata No. 1, Sz 75

Violin Sonata No. 2, Sz 76

Sonata for Solo Violin, BB 124, Sz. 117

44 Duos for Two Violins, BB 104, Sz. 98

Contrasts for violin, clarinet & piano, BB 116, Sz. 111

Hungarian Folk Songs

Arranged for Violin and Piano


André Gertler (violin), Josef Suk (violin), Diane Andersen (piano) & Milan Etlík (clarinet)

Czech Philharmonic Orchestra & Brno Philharmonic Orchestra, Karel Ancerl & János Ferencsik

Supraphon - SU39242

(CD - 4 discs)

$43.99

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