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Bela Bartok

  • #ClassicsaDay #SymYesNo Week 4

    Oct 1st, 2021 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: #ClassicsaDay, #SymYesNo, Alexander Scriabin, Bela Bartok, Franz Joseph Haydn, Richard Strauss, Twitter

    For the month of September, the Classics a Day team chose a controversial theme. There is a small subset of symphonic works within the classical repertoire that appear misnamed. Most composers choose their titles carefully. But when the title runs counter to expectations, disagreements arise. What does the title “symphony” mean? Can a composition be […]

  • #ClassicsaDay #ClassicalTimeMachine (early LPs) Week 1

    Nov 6th, 2020 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: #ClassicsaDay, Amedee-Ernest Chausson, Andrés Segovia, Bela Bartok, Classical music, Edgard Varèse, Howard Hanson, Twitter

    Last month the Classics a Day team chose vintage recordings as the theme. Specifically, recordings made before the LP era. This month, the focus moves forward in time a little, to the early LP era. This runs from 1948 to about 1958, with the advent of stereo recording. In that era (as with other eras […]

  • Formosa Quartet sample Hungary and Taiwan (sort of)

    Jun 25th, 2019 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: Bela Bartok, Bridge Records, CD Review, Chamber music, Classical music, contemporary classical music, Dana Wilson, Formosa Quartet, Lei Liang, Wei-Chieh Lin

    I really like the selections on this album and the performances. The premise? Not so much. The liner notes state that the quartet wants to explore cultural and geographic diversity. “In this recording, we begin to focus on two of these regions [of the world] by bringing you music born of Hungarian and Taiwanese soil […]

  • Charlottesville Symphony Thrill with Bartok and Mendelssohn

    Mar 25th, 2019 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: Bela Bartok, benjamin rous, charlottesville symphony, Classical music, Concerto, Felix Mendelssohn

    Bela Bartok’s Violin Concerto No. 2 is a challenging work for both soloist and ensemble. Audiences were treated to a fine performance by violinist Joseph Lin, maestro Benjamin Rous, and the Charlottesville Symphony March 23 and 24th, 2019. Lin possessed all the technical ability necessary for this difficult piece. He played with a clean, pure […]

  • #ClassicsaDay #FamousLastWorks Week 2

    Oct 12th, 2018 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: #ClassicsaDay, #FamousLastWorks, Alban Berg, Bela Bartok, Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Gustav Mahler, Johannes Brahms, Twitter

    For the month of October, the #ClassicsaDay team (of which I’m a part), decided to go with a Halloween theme. The idea is to share works marked in some way with the composer’s demise. It can be the last piece a composer completed before death, or one left incomplete at death. For my part, I […]

  • #ClassicsaDay #Bernsteinat100 Week 5

    Aug 31st, 2018 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: #Bernsteinat100, #ClassicsaDay, Bela Bartok, Johannes Brahms, Leonard Bernstein

    August 2018 is the centennial of Leonard Bernstein’s birth. Many classical radio stations, performance groups, and writers marked the occasion. And so did #ClassicsaDay. Bernstein was known as a composer, conductor, performer and an educator. Since #ClassicsaDay is primarily a music feed, I concentrated on the first two of those roles (and occasionally the third). […]

  • Falletta and Buffalo Philharmonic Excel with Early Bartok

    Dec 3rd, 2014 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: Bela Bartok, Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, CD Review, JoAnn Falletta, Naxos, Orchestral music

    A young Bela Bartók wrote he was “roused as by a clap of thunder at the first performance of Also sprach Zarathustra.. The work brought me  to a pitch of enthusiasm. I felt a reaching out to something new. I threw myself into the study of Strauss.” That inspiration is quite evident in this collection […]

  • Martin Perry plays Carter, Bartók, Rózsa

    May 20th, 2013 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: Bela Bartok, CD Review, Classical piano, contemporary classical music, Elliot Carter, Martin Perry, Miklos Rosza

    Martin Perry presents works by three composers that aren’t often grouped together: Bela Bartok, Mikos Rózsa, and Elliot Carter. And yet the three works on this disc form a cohesive and intriguing program. Bartok used folk songs as the basis for his Improvisations on Hungarian Peasant Songs, Op. 20. But as the title suggests, he […]

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