Bela Bartok, Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel composed special pieces specifically designed to exploit the full tonal range of this incredible instrument.
Arguably one of the most influential pedagogical works of the 20th century,
Bela Bartok's Mikrokosmos is regarded as one of the most well-known and well-respected collections for piano students.
In Budapest, the total price of PS60 includes visits to the Hungarian National Museum (PS5), National Gallery (PS5) and a performance of Beethoven at
Bela Bartok National Concert Hall (PS13).
IV: 1-4; James Oswald, Sonata of Scots Songs;
Bela Bartok, Roumainian Folk Dances; Eddie McGuire, Four Dorset Folk Songs; and Eugene Walckiers, Grand Trio, Opus 35.
One of the most genuinely avant-garde films to screen in CLC's series, the film's title is Hungarian for "Bluebird."
Bela Bartok's opera "Bluebird's Castle" is heard throughout, adding enigma and grandeur to the film's precisely composed photography.
On this same date, Perlman now will offer a completely new program, featuring longtime collaborators violinist and violist Pinchas Zukerman and pianist Rohan De Silva in a recital of music by Johann Sebastian Bach, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, HenrykWieniawski,
Bela Bartok, and Mortitz Moszkowski.
They also read some of this correspondence and later that evening, on February 8, popular actor Robert Roth also read excerpts of letters from the late period of his life.Beethoven: Quartets, letters, and moreThe musical part of the festival dedicated this time around to Beethoven (after Shostakovich in 2016 and
Bela Bartok in 2017) starts February 18, with a combination of chamber music and piano a Slovak living in Switzerland, violinist Igor Karsko, will join forces with cellistart director of Kovergencie, Jozef Luptak, and Serbian pianist Aleksandar Serdar, playing the works of Beethoven that will culminate in the "The Archduke Trio" (1811), dedicated to Archduke Rudolf, Beethoven's student and son of King Leopold II.
But the Lithuanian's close relationship with her orchestra was plain to see and never more so than in the concert's final and longest piece,
Bela Bartok's 1943 Concerto for Orchestra, in which the composer developed the notion of a concerto being for a single instrument to embrace them all.
The most important international summaries of music history--such as Richard Taruskin's History of Western Music, or Hermann Danuser's 20th-Century Music History--define him as a master of national importance (mostly in contrast to his friend
Bela Bartok who proved to be much more successful internationally).
Fingersatze von
Bela Bartok. Hinweise zu Studium und Interpretation von Peter Roggenkamp.
The pair will perform Ludwig van Beethoven's Sonata no.5 dite 'du printemps', Polonaise de Concert by Henryk Wieniawski,
Bela Bartok's Danses Roumaines, Rondo Capriccioso by Camille Saint-Saens, Meditation de Thais by Jules Masenet, Les Airs Bohemiens by Pablo de Sarasate and Tzigane by Maurice Ravel.