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Béla Bartók: Mikrokosmos - Zoltán Kocsis - Works For Piano Solo 5 / Philips 2x Audio CD 1999 / 462 381-2
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Béla Bartók's Mikrokosmos (Hungarian: Mikrokozmosz) Sz. 107, BB 105 consists of 153 progressive piano pieces in six volumes, written between 1926 and 1939 and published in 1940. The individual pieces progress from very easy and simple beginner études to very difficult advanced technical displays, and are used in modern piano lessons and education. In total, according to Bartók, the work "appears as a synthesis of all the musical and technical problems which were treated and in some cases only partially solved in the previous piano works." Volumes one and two are dedicated to his son Péter, while volumes five and six are intended as professionally performable concert pieces.
Bartók also indicated that these pieces could also be played in different arrangements. In 1940, shortly before they emigrated to the United States, he arranged seven of the pieces for two pianos, to provide additional repertoire for himself and his wife Ditta Pásztory-Bartók to play. Tibor Serly transcribed six of the pieces for piano and string orchestra, arrangements which were first performed on the composer's 61st birthday in 1942. In 1969 Huguette Dreyfus recorded selected pieces from Books 3 to 6 on the harpsichord.
The pieces are notable for their display of folk music influence, their unusual use of tonality, and their use of additive rhythms. Bartók travelled extensively during the period 1906–1936 to rural Hungary, Romania, Algeria and Turkey, transcribing folk songs and dances; that influence is especially apparent in the Six Dances in Bulgarian Rhythm at the end of Mikrokosmos, as well as in his (separate) set of Romanian Folk Dances (1915).
| Label: | Philips – 462 381-2 |
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| Format: |
2 x CD, Album
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| Released: |
1999 |
| Genre: | Classical |
| Style: | Modern |
Tracklist:
| Mikrokosmos, BB 105, Sz. 107 | |||
| Book I | |||
| 1.1 | 1. Unison Melody (1) | ||
| 1.2 | 2. Unison Melody (2) | ||
| 1.3 | 3. Unison Melody (3) | ||
| 1.4 | 4. Unison Melody (4) | ||
| 1.5 | 5. Unison Melody (5) | ||
| 1.6 | 6. Unison Melody (6) | ||
| 1.7 | 7. Dotted Notes | ||
| 1.8 | 8. Repetition (1) | ||
| 1.9 | 9. Syncopation (A) | ||
| 1.10 | 10. With Alternate Hands | ||
| 1.11 | 11. Parallel Motion | ||
| 1.12 | 12. Reflection | ||
| 1.13 | 13. Change Of Position | ||
| 1.14 | 14. Question And Answer | ||
| 1.15 | 15. Village Song | ||
| 1.16 | 16. Parallel Motion With Change Of Position | ||
| 1.17 | 17. Contrary Motion | ||
| 1.18 | 18. Unison Melody (7) | ||
| 1.19 | 19. Unison Melody (8) | ||
| 1.20 | 20. Unison Melody (9) | ||
| 1.21 | 21. Unison Melody (10) | ||
| 1.22 | 22. Imitation And Counterpoint | ||
| 1.23 | 23. Imitation And Inversion (1) | ||
| 1.24 | 24. Pastorale | ||
| 1.25 | 25. Imitation And Inversion (1) | ||
| 1.26 | 26. Repetition (2) | ||
| 1.27 | 27. Syncopation (B) | ||
| 1.28 | 28. Canon At The Octave | ||
| 1.29 | 29. Imitation Reflected | ||
| 1.30 | 30. Canon At The Lower Fifth | ||
| 1.31 | 31. Dance In Canon Form | ||
| 1.32 | 32. In Dorian Mode | ||
| 1.33 | 33. Slow Dance | ||
| 1.34 | 34. In Phrygian Mode | ||
| 1.35 | 35. Chorale | ||
| 1.36 | 36. Free Canon | ||
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Book II |
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| 1.37 | 37. In Lydian Mode | ||
| 1.38 | 38. Staccato And Legato | ||
| 1.39 | 39. Staccato And Legato (Canon) | ||
| 1.40 | 40. In Yugoslav Style | ||
| 1.41 | 41. Melody With Accompaniment | ||
| 1.42 | 42. Accompaniment In Broken Triads | ||
| 1.43 | 43. In Hungarian Style (Version A: 2 Pianos; Version B: Piano Solo) | ||
| 1.44 | 44. Contrary Motion (2 Pianos) | ||
| 1.45 | 45. Méditation | ||
| 1.46 | 46. Increasing - Diminishing | ||
| 1.47 | 47. Country Fair | ||
| 1.48 | 48. In Mixolydian Mode | ||
| 1.49 | 49. Crescendo - Diminuendo (1) | ||
| 1.50 | 50. Menuetto | ||
| 1.51 | 51. Waves | ||
| 1.52 | 52. Unison Divided | ||
| 1.53 | 53. In Transylvian Style | ||
| 1.54 | 54. Chromatics | ||
| 1.55 | 55. Triplets In Lydian Mod (2 Pianos) | ||
| 1.56 | 56. Melody In Tenths | ||
| 1.57 | 57. Accents | ||
| 1.58 | 58. In Oriental Style | ||
| 1.59 | 59. Major And Minor | ||
| 1.60 | 60. Canon With Sustained Notes | ||
| 1.61 | 61. Pentatonic Melody | ||
| 1.62 | 62. Minor Sixths In Parallel Motion | ||
| 1.63 | 63. Buzzing | ||
| 1.64 | 64. Line Against Point (Versions A & B) | ||
| 1.65 | 65. Dialogue | ||
| 1.66 | 66. Melody Divided | ||
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Book III |
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| 1.67 | 67. Thirds Against A Single Voice | ||
| 1.68 | 68. Hungarian Dance (2) | ||
| 1.69 | 69. Study In Chords | ||
| 1.70 | 70. Melody Against Double Notes | ||
| 1.71 | 71. Thirds | ||
| 1.72 | 72. Dragons' Dance | ||
| 1.73 | 73. Sixths And Triads | ||
| 1.74 | 74. 74. Hungarian Matchmaking Son (Versions A & B; Version B With Voice) | ||
| 1.75 | 75. Triplets | ||
| 1.76 | 76. In Three Parts | ||
| 1.77 | 77. Little Study | ||
| 1.78 | 78. Five-tone Scale | ||
| 1.79 | 79. Hommage À J. S. B. | ||
| 1.80 | 80. Hommage À R. Sch. | ||
| 1.81 | 81. Wandering | ||
| 1.82 | 82. Scherzo | ||
| 1.83 | 83. Melody With Interruptions | ||
| 1.84 | 84. Merriment | ||
| 1.85 | 85. Broken Chords | ||
| 1.86 | 86. Two Major Pentachords | ||
| 1.87 | 87. Variations | ||
| 1.88 | 88. Duet For Pipes | ||
| 1.89 | 89. In Four Parts (1) | ||
| 1.90 | 90. In Russian Style | ||
| 1.91 | 91. Chromatic Invention (1) | ||
| 1.92 | 92. Chromatic Invention (2) | ||
| 1.93 | 93. In Four Parts (2) | ||
| 1.94 | 94. Once Upon A Time | ||
| 1.95 | 95. Fox Song (Versions A & B; Version B With Voice) | ||
| 1.96 | 96. Jolts | ||
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Book IV |
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| 2.1 | 97. Notturno | ||
| 2.2 | 98. Thumb Under | ||
| 2.3 | 99. Crossed Hands | ||
| 2.4 | 100. In The Style Of A Folk Song | ||
| 2.5 | 101. Diminished Fifth | ||
| 2.6 | 102. Harmonics | ||
| 2.7 | 103 Minor And Major | ||
| 2.8 | 104. Through The Keys (Versions A & B) | ||
| 2.9 | 105. Playsong | ||
| 2.10 | 106. Children's Song | ||
| 2.11 | 107. Melody In The Mist | ||
| 2.12 | 108. Wrestling | ||
| 2.13 | 109. From The Island Of Bali | ||
| 2.14 | 110. Clashing Sounds | ||
| 2.15 | 111. Intermezzo | ||
| 2.16 | 112. Variations On A Folk Tune | ||
| 2.17 | 113. Bulgarian Rhythm (1) | ||
| 2.18 | 114. Theme And Inversion | ||
| 2.19 | 115. Bulgarian Rhythm (2) | ||
| 2.20 | 116. Melody | ||
| 2.21 | 117. Bourrée | ||
| 2.22 | 118. Triplets In 9/8 Time | ||
| 2.23 | 119. Dance In 3/4 Time | ||
| 2.24 | 120. Fifth Chords | ||
| 2.25 | 121. Two-part Study | ||
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Book V |
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| 2.26 | 122. Chords Together And Opposed | ||
| 2.27 | 123. Staccato And Legato (Versions A & B) | ||
| 2.28 | 124. Staccato | ||
| 2.29 | 125. Boating | ||
| 2.30 | 126. Change Of Time | ||
| 2.31 | 127. New Hungarian Folk Song (With Voice) | ||
| 2.32 | 128. Peasant Dance | ||
| 2.33 | 123. Alternating Thirds | ||
| 2.34 | 124. Village Joke | ||
| 2.35 | 131. Fourths | ||
| 2.36 | 132. Major Chords Broken And Together | ||
| 2.37 | 133. Syncopation | ||
| 2.38 | 134. Studies in Double Notes (Versions A, B & C) | ||
| 2.39 | 135. Perpetuum Mobile | ||
| 2.40 | 136. Whole-tone Scales | ||
| 2.41 | 137. Unison | ||
| 2.42 | 138. Bagpipe Music | ||
| 2.43 | 139. Merry Andrew | ||
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Book VI |
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| 2.44 | 140. Free Variations | ||
| 2.45 | 141. Subject And Reflection | ||
| 2.46 | 142. From The Diary Of A Fly | ||
| 2.47 | 143. Divided Arpeggios | ||
| 2.48 | 144. Minor Seconds, Major Sevenths | ||
| 2.49 | 145. Chromatic Invention (3) (Versions A & B) | ||
| 2.50 | 146. Ostinato | ||
| 2.51 | 147. March | ||
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6 Dances In Bulgarian Rhythm |
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| 2.52 | 148. No. 1 | ||
| 2.53 | 149. No. 2 | ||
| 2.54 | 150. No. 3 | ||
| 2.55 | 151. No. 4 | ||
| 2.56 | 152. No. 5 | ||
| 2.57 | 153. No. 6 |
- Mezzo-soprano Vocals – Márta Lukin (tracks: 1.65, 1.74, 1.95, 2.31)
- Piano – Károly Mocsári (tracks: 1.43, 1.44, 1.55, 1.68, 1.74, 1.95), Zoltán Kocsis
