László Somfai

Long before his famous Mikrokosmos, Bartók composed a comprehensive collection of little piano pieces, entitled For Children. Written in 1908-1911, its two volumes are based on Hungarian and Slovakian...

Long before his famous Mikrokosmos, Bartók composed a comprehensive collection of little piano pieces, entitled For Children. Written in 1908-1911, its two volumes are based on Hungarian and Slovakian...

Bartók's Rumanian Folk Dances, composed in 1915, are among his best-known works. They exist in multiple forms, since as well as several piano arrangements and a later orchestral version of his own the...

> Joint publishing venture with Editio Musica Budapest Bartók used different melodies taken from Romanian instrumental folk music in his Sonatina. A look at the sources shows how, in 1915, the piece s...

The four-movement Suite op. 14 was composed in 1916 and was one of Bartók's favourite piano works throughout his life. Unlike in his other works for piano of these years, he did not use any folksong m...

In a note for the planned first edition of his Hungarian Peasant Songs in 1914, Bartók wrote that 'the melodies published here are folksongs in the truest sense of the word; more precisely, peasant so...

Bartók's Romanian Christmas carols are based on folk melodies that originated in a pagan celebration of the winter solstice, and which he felt gave 'the impression of a fiery, war-like type of song, r...

Of the many works Bartók composed on Hungarian and Romanian folk melodies between 1914 and 1918, these three piano pieces occupy a special place. Originally outlined for the collection 15 Hungarian Pe...

With these three studies Bartók quite deliberately aimed to leave his mark on New Music in 1918. The first study is a kind of super-charged, motorically vehement Allegro barbaro, while the second, wit...

Béla Bartók's six string quartets, composed between 1908 and 1940, are 20th-century milestones of the genre. His First String Quartet is closely linked to his unhappy love for the violinist Stefi Geye...

Bartók's Second String Quartet was composed - with several long interruptions - between 1915 and 1918, after he had spent several years almost solely devoted to collecting folk music. The melody and r...

The String Quartet no. 3 is the shortest of Béla Bartók's six Quartets, and was also composed in a remarkably short time. He wrote the score in September 1927, and in the following December it won him...

Even before his String Quartet no. 3 appeared in print in 1929, Bartók was already working on a fourth in the summer of 1928. This five-movement work is arranged symmetrically around a highly expressi...

The longest and at the same time most complex of Bartók’s six string quartets was composed in the summer of 1934 as a well-paid commission for the renowned Elisabeth Sprague Coolidge Foundation in Was...

Bartók began work on his Sixth String Quartet in the summer of 1939 as a guest of Paul Sacher in the idyllic Swiss mountain village of Saanen, before the impending outbreak of war drove him first to B...

After his 15 Hungarian peasant songs (HN1404), these Improvisations on Hungarian peasant songs are the second of Bartók's works to feature the words 'Hungarian peasant songs' in their title. The manne...

The volume contains Bartók's central piano works, including the extremely popular Romanian Folk Dances, known in numerous arrangements, the Suite op. 14, and the Sonatina. The volume offers a wealth o...

Dramma per musica in 3 Akten. Gluck. Sämtliche Werke. Serie III, Band 8 Sopran solo (4), Tenor solo, Flöte (2), Oboe (2), Englischhorn (2), Fagott (2), Horn (2), Trompete (2), Pauke, Streicher, Basso...

Urtext der Neuen Mozart-Ausgabe. Flöte (2), Oboe (2), Fagott (2), Horn (2), Trompete (2), Pauke, Streicher - Partitur; Urtextausgabe

In collaboration with Editio Musica Budapest.

> Joint publishing venture with Editio Musica Budapest Composed in 1910/11, Bartók's Allegro barbaro is one of his best-known and most popular works for piano. The composer himself enjoyed performing...

Flöte (2), Oboe (2), Fagott (2), Horn (2), Trompete (2), Pauke - Harmoniestimmen