Bartok Solo Piano Works Volume 3

On this CD:

1. Romanian Folk Dances (6), for piano (Román népi táncok), Sz. 56, BB 68
Composed by Bela Bartok
Performed by June De Toth

2. Ten Easy Pieces, for piano (Tiz könnyu zongoradarab), Sz. 39, BB 51
Composed by Bela Bartok
Performed by June De Toth

3. Bagatelles (14), for piano, Sz. 38, BB 50 (Op. 6)
Composed by Bela Bartok
Performed by June De Toth

4. Rondos on Slovak Folktunes (3), for piano, Sz. 84, BB 92
Composed by Bela Bartok
Performed by June De Toth

5. Sonatina, for piano (on Romanian folk tunes), Sz. 55, BB 69
Composed by Bela Bartok
Performed by June De Toth

6. Romanian Dance: Allegro vivace, Two Rumanian Dances for piano No. 1, Sz. 43/1, BB 56/1 (Op. 8a)
Composed by Bela Bartok
Performed by June De Toth

Editorial Reviews
AMERICAN RECORD GUIDE: March/April 1999
There's more to Bartok's music than meets the eye-or the ear. Nowadays the debt he owed to recording technology as far back as 1905 (when he first met Zoltan Kodaly) is little more than a dim memory, save for a handful of scholars and his most ardent devotees. But Bartok was a devoted collector relying on wax cylinders to record and study thousands of indigenous Eastern European folk tunes. Indeed, in his effort to codify in music the diatonic constructions of the gypsy and peasant cultures of Bulgaria, Hungary, Serbia and Romania he elevated the natural charms of a backwoods genre to high art. It is fitting that the very technology that played midwife to Bartok's melismatic exoticisms now offers an ideal format for their realization. In her exhaustive survey of his complete piano works (these are the first three out of seven CDs), June de Toth proves herself a smart, solid, and reliable pianist. She offers thoughtful and often eloquent readings that reject both hysteria and the kind of kamikaze approach of so many young piano lions. Its overall sobriety and discipline is such that the music speaks for itself. In the wistful 'Street of Istvand', for example, or in the rugged yet oddly seductive sailor song 'In the Harbor of Nagyvarad', her no-nonsense surefootedness gives ample voice to Bartok's nostalgic melancholia. Indeed, in these works, part of the 42 Hungarian Folk Songs for Children, she fathoms each as a kind of apposite gestuary of hemiolas and unnerving hesitations, and as the stuff of musical speech. If Bartok was Hungary's answer to Moussorgsky, nowhere i! s it more evident than here. Capturing the essentially trochaic inflections of Hungarian speech with the knowing temperament of a native (Ms de Toth is full blood Hungarian) she lays out the keyboard songs with the patrician air of an old storyteller at a family gathering. Whatever one's ideas and taste may be in interpretation of Bartok, her performances are persuasive. Take particular note of her attractive readings of the 14 Bagatelles: these she portrays with a kind of arid simplicity that enhances their now playful, now lonely ethos. This set would make an ideal introduction to Bartok's piano music, especially if you are still unfamiliar with the bulk of it. These are urbane, honest, eminently intelligible interpretations that will draw the uninitiated into the texts of this extraordinarily rich music. YOUNG

Le Guide Du Concert et du Disque
Paris: "She gave a clear vision of the eternity of the great Gods of music: Bartok, Chopin, Liszt, Debussy, and Ravel.. June De Toth possesses a marvelous technique. She made a clear distinction between the styles of Beethoven and Bartk.''

Album Description
This set (this is the third out of seven CDs), would make an ideal introduction to Bartok's piano music, especially if you are still unfamiliar with the bulk of it. These are urbane, honest, eminently intelligible interpretations that will draw the uninitiated into the texts of this extraordinarily rich music. In her exhaustive survey of his complete piano works June de Toth proves herself a smart, solid, and reliable pianist. She offers thoughtful and often eloquent readings that reject both hysteria and the kind of kamikaze approach of so many young piano lions. Its overall sobriety and discipline is such that the music speaks for itself In the wistful 'Street of Istvand', for example, or in the rugged yet oddly seductive sailor song 'In the Harbor of Nagyvarad', her no-nonsense surefootedness gives ample voice to Bartok's nostalgic melancholia. Indeed, in these works, part of the 42 Hungarian Folk Songs for Children, she fathoms each as a kind of apposite gestuary of hemiolas and unnerving hesitations, and as the stuff of musical speech. If Bartok was Hungary's answer to Moussorgsky, nowhere is it more evident than here. Capturing the essentially trochaic inflections of Hungarian speech with the knowing temperament of a native (Ms de Toth is full blood Hungarian) she lays out the keyboard songs with the patrician air of an old storyteller at a family gathering. Whatever one's ideas and taste may be in interpretation of Bartok, her performances are persuasive. Take particular note of her attractive readings of the 14 Bagatelles: these she portrays with a kind of arid simplicity that enhances their now playful, now lonely ethos.

Bartok Solo Piano Works Volume 3

Bartok Solo Piano Works Volume 3, Music, Bela Bartok, June de Toth, 20th/21st Century Sonata/Sonatina for Keyboard, Bagatelle for Keyboard, Chamber Music & Recitals, Classical, Dance-Based Keyboard Music, Keyboard, Played with all the conviction of an accomplished master interpreter of Bartók, she must also have Biceps Of Steel and a very hardy constitution in order to be able to pull off these masterpieces., Rondo for Keyboard, Suite/Partita for Keyboard
Bartok Solo Piano Works Volume 3
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    		Bartok Solo Piano Works Volume 3

    Manufacturer: Eroica Classical Recordings
    ProductGroup: Music
    Binding: Audio CD

    DancesDances | Ballets & Dances | Classical | Styles | Music
    GeneralGeneral | Bartók, Béla | ( B ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music
    RondosRondos | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music
    BagatellesBagatelles | Short Forms | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music
    GeneralGeneral | Sonatas | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music
    SuitesSuites | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music
    Chamber MusicChamber Music | Forms & Genres | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music
    Chamber MusicChamber Music | Forms & Genres | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music
    SonatasSonatas | Forms & Genres | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music
    GeneralGeneral | Keyboard | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music
    GeneralGeneral | Classical | Styles | Music
    GeneralGeneral | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music
    ASIN: B00000FDIJ
    Release Date: 1999-12-15

    Tracks:

    1. Six Roumanian Folk Dances: Dance With Sticks
    2. Six Roumanian Folk Dances: Waistband Dance
    3. Six Roumanian Folk Dances: Stamping Dance
    4. Six Roumanian Folk Dances: Hornpipe Dance
    5. Six Roumanian Folk Dances: Roumanie Polka
    6. Six Roumanian Folk Dances: Quick Dance
    7. Ten Easy Pno Pieces: No.1, Peasant Song
    8. Ten Easy Pno Pieces: No.2, Painful Struggle
    9. Ten Easy Pno Pieces: No.3, Slovack Young Men's Dance
    10. Ten Easy Pno Pieces: No.4, Sostenuto
    11. Ten Easy Pno Pieces: No.5, Evening In Transylvania
    12. Ten Easy Pno Pieces: No.6, Hungarian Folk Song
    13. Ten Easy Pno Pieces: No.7, Dawn
    14. Ten Easy Pno Pieces: No.8, Folk Song
    15. Ten Easy Pno Pieces: No.9, Finger Study
    16. Ten Easy Pno Pieces: No.10, Bear Dance
    17. Fourteen Bagatelles, Op.6: No.1 'Molto Sostenuto
    18. Fourteen Bagatelles, Op.6: No.2 'Allegro Giocoso'
    19. Fourteen Bagatelles, Op.6: No.3 'Andante'
    20. Fourteen Bagatelles, Op.6: No.4 'Grave'
    21. Fourteen Bagatelles, Op.6: No.5 'Vivo'
    22. Fourteen Bagatelles, Op.6: No.6 'Lento'
    23. Fourteen Bagatelles, Op.6: No.7 'Allegretto Molto Capriccioso
    24. Fourteen Bagatelles, Op.6: No.8 'Andante Sostenuto'
    25. Fourteen Bagatelles, Op.6: No.9 'Allegretto Grazioso'
    26. Fourteen Bagatelles, Op.6: No.10 'Allegro'
    27. Fourteen Bagatelles, Op.6: No.11 'Allegretto Molto Rubato'
    28. Fourteen Bagatelles, Op.6: No.12 'Rubato'
    29. Fourteen Bagatelles, Op.6: No.13 'Lento Funebre'
    30. Fourteen Bagatelles, Op6: No.14 'Waltz'
    31. Three Rondos On Folk Tunes: No.1 'Andante'
    32. Three Rondos On Folk Tunes: No.2 'Vivacissmo'
    33. Three Rondos On Folk Tunes: No.3 'Allegro Molto'
    34. Son: I. Bagpipe
    35. Son: II. Bear Dance (A Boys Dance)
    36. Son III. Finale (Solstice)
    37. Roumanian Dance No.1, Op.8a

    Album Description

    This set (this is the third out of seven CDs), would make an ideal introduction to Bartok's piano music, especially if you are still unfamiliar with the bulk of it. These are urbane, honest, eminently intelligible interpretations that will draw the uninitiated into the texts of this extraordinarily rich music. In her exhaustive survey of his complete piano works June de Toth proves herself a smart, solid, and reliable pianist. She offers thoughtful and often eloquent readings that reject both hysteria and the kind of kamikaze approach of so many young piano lions. Its overall sobriety and discipline is such that the music speaks for itself In the wistful 'Street of Istvand', for example, or in the rugged yet oddly seductive sailor song 'In the Harbor of Nagyvarad', her no-nonsense surefootedness gives ample voice to Bartok's nostalgic melancholia. Indeed, in these works, part of the 42 Hungarian Folk Songs for Children, she fathoms each as a kind of apposite gestuary of hemiolas and unnerving hesitations, and as the stuff of musical speech. If Bartok was Hungary's answer to Moussorgsky, nowhere is it more evident than here. Capturing the essentially trochaic inflections of Hungarian speech with the knowing temperament of a native (Ms de Toth is full blood Hungarian) she lays out the keyboard songs with the patrician air of an old storyteller at a family gathering. Whatever one's ideas and taste may be in interpretation of Bartok, her performances are persuasive. Take particular note of her attractive readings of the 14 Bagatelles: these she portrays with a kind of arid simplicity that enhances their now playful, now lonely ethos.
    Bartok Solo Piano Works Volume 2
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      		Bartok Solo Piano Works Volume 2

      Manufacturer: Eroica Classical Recordings
      ProductGroup: Music
      Binding: Audio CD

      GeneralGeneral | Bartók, Béla | ( B ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music
      SuitesSuites | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music
      Chamber MusicChamber Music | Forms & Genres | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music
      GeneralGeneral | Keyboard | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music
      GeneralGeneral | Classical | Styles | Music
      GeneralGeneral | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music
      ASIN: B00000FDHO
      Release Date: 1999-12-15

      Tracks:

      1. Ste, Op 14: Allegretto
      2. Ste, Op 14: Scherzo
      3. Ste, Op 14: Allegro Molto
      4. Ste, Op 14: Sostenuto
      5. For Children '42 Hungarian Folk Songs': 1. Allegro 'Let's Bake Something'
      6. For Children '42 Hungarian Folk Songs': 2. Andante 'Dawn, O Day'
      7. For Children '42 Hungarian Folk Songs': 3. Andante 'I Lost My Young Couple'
      8. For Children '42 Hungarian Folk Songs': 4. Allegro 'I Lost My Handkerchief'
      9. For Children '42 Hungarian Folk Songs': 5. Poco Allegretto 'Kitty Kitty'
      10. For Children '42 Hungarian Folk Songs': 6. Allegro 'Hey, Tulip, Tulip'
      11. For Children '42 Hungarian Folk Songs': 7. Andante 'Look For The Needle'
      12. For Children '42 Hungarian Folk Songs': 8. Allegretto , Turos '(Girl's Game)'
      13. For Children '42 Hungarian Folk Songs': 9. Molto Adagio 'White Lily'
      14. For Children '42 Hungarian Folk Songs': 10. Allegro Molto, 'Walachian Game'
      15. For Children '42 Hungarian Folk Songs': 11. Molto Sustenuto 'I Lost My Young Couple'
      16. For Children '42 Hungarian Folk Songs': 12. Allegro 'Chain, Chain'
      17. For Children '42 Hungarian Folk Songs': 13. Andante 'A Lad Was Killed'
      18. For Children '42 Hungarian Folk Songs': 14. Allegretto 'The Poor Lads Of Csanad'
      19. For Children '42 Hungarian Folk Songs': 15. Allegro 'The Street Of Istvand'
      20. For Children '42 Hungarian Folk Songs': 16. Andante Rubato 'I Never Stole In My Whole Life'
      21. For Children '42 Hungarian Folk Songs': 17. Adagio 'My Little Graceful Girl'
      22. For Children '42 Hungarian Folk Songs': 18. Andante Non Molto 'In The Of Harbor Of Nagyvarad'
      23. For Children '42 Hungarian Folk Songs': 19. Allegretto 'The Inn At Doboz'
      24. For Children '42 Hungarian Folk Songs': 20. Poco Allegro 'Drinking Song'
      25. For Children '42 Hungarian Folk Songs': 21. Allegro Robusto 'Parsley And Celery'
      26. For Children '42 Hungarian Folk Songs': 22. Allegretto 'Go To Debrecen'
      27. For Children '42 Hungarian Folk Songs': 23. Allegro Grazioso 'Walk This Way, That Way'
      28. For Children '42 Hungarian Folk Songs': 24. Andante Sostenuto 'Water, Water, Water'
      29. For Children '42 Hungarian Folk Songs': 25. Allegro 'Three Apples Plus A Half'
      30. For Children '42 Hungarian Folk Songs': 26. Andante 'Go 'Round Sweetheart, Go 'Round'
      31. "June De Toth" "For Children '42 Hungarian Folk Songs': 27. Allegremente 'My Sheep Are Lost'"
      32. "June De Toth" "For Children '42 Hungarian Folk Songs': 28. Parlando 'Laszlo Feher Stole A Horse'"
      33. or Children '42 Hungarian Folk Songs': 29. Allegro 'Oh! Hey! What Do You Say'
      34. For Children '42 Hungarian Folk Songs': 30. Andante 'They Brought Up The Rooster'
      35. "June De Toth" "For Children '42 Hungarian Folk Songs': 31. Allegro Scherzando 'Mother, Dear Mother'"
      36. For Children '42 Hungarian Folk Songs': 32. Allegro Ironico 'The Sun Shines Into The Church'
      37. "June De Toth" "For Children '42 Hungarian Folk Songs': 33. Andante Sostenuto 'Stars, Stars, Brightly Shine'"
      38. For Children '42 Hungarian Folk Songs': 34. Andante White Lady's Eardrop'
      39. "June De Toth" "For Children '42 Hungarian Folk Songs': 35. Allegro Non Troppo 'I Picked Flowers In The Garden'"
      40. "June De Toth" "For Children '42 Hungarian Folk Songs': 36. Allegretto 'Margitta Is Not Far Away'"
      41. "June De Toth" "For Children '42 Hungarian Folk Songs': 37. Poco Vivace 'When I Go Up Buda's Big Mountain'"
      42. "June De Toth" "For Children '42 Hungarian Folk Songs': 38. Vivace 'Ten Liters Are Inside Me'"
      43. For Children '42 Hungarian Folk Songs': 39. Allegro 'The Cricket Marries'
      44. For Children '42 Hungarian Folk Songs': 40. Molto Vivace 'May The Lord Give'
      45. For Children '42 Hungarian Folk Songs': 41. Allegro Moderato 'Do You Go, Darling?'
      46. For Children '42 Hungarian Folk Songs': 42. Allegro Vivace 'Swineherd Dance'
      47. Three Burlesques, Op. 8c: Quarrel
      48. Three Burlesques, Op. 8c: A Bit Tipsy
      49. Three Burlesques, Op. 8c: Capriccioso

      Album Description

      This set (this is the second out of seven CDs), would make an ideal introduction to Bartok's piano music, especially if you are still unfamiliar with the bulk of it. These are urbane, honest, eminently intelligible interpretations that will draw the uninitiated into the texts of this extraordinarily rich music. In her exhaustive survey of his complete piano works June de Toth proves herself a smart, solid, and reliable pianist. She offers thoughtful and often eloquent readings that reject both hysteria and the kind of kamikaze approach of so many young piano lions. Its overall sobriety and discipline is such that the music speaks for itself In the wistful 'Street of Istvand', for example, or in the rugged yet oddly seductive sailor song 'In the Harbor of Nagyvarad', her no-nonsense surefootedness gives ample voice to Bartok's nostalgic melancholia. Indeed, in these works, part of the 42 Hungarian Folk Songs for Children, she fathoms each as a kind of apposite gestuary of hemiolas and unnerving hesitations, and as the stuff of musical speech. If Bartok was Hungary's answer to Moussorgsky, nowhere is it more evident than here. Capturing the essentially trochaic inflections of Hungarian speech with the knowing temperament of a native (Ms de Toth is full blood Hungarian) she lays out the keyboard songs with the patrician air of an old storyteller at a family gathering. Whatever one's ideas and taste may be in interpretation of Bartok, her performances are persuasive. Take particular note of her attractive readings of the 14 Bagatelles: these she portrays with a kind of arid simplicity that enhances their now playful, now lonely ethos.

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