Péter Bartók

Volume 1 includes 25 moderately difficult songs and dances of Eastern European folk music (pieces 1-25) Each of these duos - with the two indicated exceptions - incorporates a peasant melody as the pr...

Volume 2 includes 19 moderately difficult songs and dances of Eastern European folk music (pieces 26-44) Each of these duos - with the two indicated exceptions - incorporates a peasant melody as the p...

This revised edition has been prepared after examination of the prior edition as well as the manuscript sources. The manuscript used for engraving is the basic reference; the first sketch is available...

This revised edition has been prepared after comparison of the previous edition with all available sources. Manuscripts, or their copies with additions in the composer's handwriting, of the two-piano...

From a letter from Béla Bartók during the First World War: "I consider it my life's goal to continue and complete my studies of Romanian folk music, at least in Transylvania..." For the time being, ho...

The 'Romanian Folk Dances' undoubtedly rank amongst Bartók's most popular compositions. The earliest version is scored for piano (1915) and was published by Universal Edition in 1918. ln the preparati...

This revised edition was prepared with reference to all manuscript sources that could be found: the sketch, final (engraving) copy, a corrected proof of the first printed edition and some communicatio...

In the Allegro barbaro, which was composed in 1911, Bartók combines modern harmonics with Hungarian folk melodies. This revised edition was prepared by comparing the last printed edition with the ava...

In preparing this revised edition the available manuscript sources have been compared with the latest printed edition and the discrepancies were analyzed. The manuscript sources are: 1. the sketch of...

This volume of Béla Bartók's Out doors for piano contains the pieces With Drums and Pipes, Barcarolla and Musettes. Béla Bartók's concept of these compositions is that of a series of five individual p...

Volume 2 of Béla Bartók's Out doors for piano contains the pieces The Night's Music and The Chase. Béla Bartók's concept of these compositions is that of a series of five individual pieces. ln prepari...

This album contains selected pieces from Bela Bartók's 44 Duos for Two Violins that are considered suitable to be arranged for violas. With only a few exceptions, most of the pieces have been transpos...

This album contains selected pieces from Bela Bartók's 44 Duos for Two Violins that are considered suitable to be arranged for violas. With only a few exceptions, most of the pieces have been transpos...

Bela Bartók's 44 Violin Duos, or selections therefrom, have been the source of arrangements for a variety of instruments, such as for piano (one set by the composer, the Petite Suite), band, as well a...

This revised edition was prepared after comparison of all manuscript sources that could be found with the last printed edition. The sources included the first sketch, two full score manuscripts (one p...

This revised edition was prepared following comparison of the previously printed edition with the surviving manuscript sources. The following sources are available for inspection: The sketch of the wo...

Klavierauszug mit Solostimme

This corrected edition was prepared after comparing the last printed edition with the manuscripts of the composition: the first sketch, the manuscript from which the work was engraved, and the compose...

This piece for violin and piano by Béla Bartók was composed in 1922. Its premiere took place in London one year later. Two very contrasting parts characterize this sonata: A slow and expressive moveme...

Early in the month of January 1916 Bartók returned to Budapest with a bountiful collection of Slovakian folk songs and began composing a cycle of original songs. In preparing this corrected edition a...

In the Mandarin he finally breaks with the romantic tradition and also turns away from the artistic endeavours typical of the turn of the century. The pantomime refl ects for the fi rst time what Bart...

Bartók's Dance Suite was composed in 1923 and premiered in the same year in Budapest. The occasion was the 50th jubilee of the unification of Buda, Óbuda and Pest to Hungary's capital Budapest.