44 Duets for Two Violins

Album by Béla Bartók & Iva Bittová & Dorothea Kellerová

44 Duets for Two Violins is a set of pedagogical duets by Hungarian composer Béla Bartók, composed in 1931. The pieces draw on folk-derived modes, modal harmonies and rhythmic vitality in largely contrapuntal two-part writing that progresses in difficulty as a pedagogical sequence and reflects Bartók's interwar interest in combining folk material with modern compositional techniques.

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  1. 1.
    44 Duets for Two Violins: Teasing Song
    1:07
  2. 2.
    44 Duets for Two Violins: Maypole Dance
    0:38
  3. 3.
    44 Duets for Two Violins: Transylvanian Dance
    1:55
  4. 4.
    44 Duets for Two Violins: Slovakian Song
    0:49
  5. 5.
    44 Duets for Two Violins: Slovakian Song II
    0:52
  6. 6.
    44 Duets for Two Violins: Wallachian Song
    0:48
  7. 7.
    44 Duets for Two Violins: Hungarian Song
    0:48
  8. 8.
    44 Duets for Two Violins: Play Song
    1:00
  9. 9.
    44 Duets for Two Violins: Midsummer Night Song
    0:40
  10. 10.
    44 Duets for Two Violins: Hay Song
    0:53
  11. 11.
    44 Duets for Two Violins: Harvest Song
    1:37
  12. 12.
    44 Duets for Two Violins: Wedding Song
    1:30
  13. 13.
    44 Duets for Two Violins: Menuetto
    0:46
  14. 14.
    44 Duets for Two Violins: Burlesque
    0:30
  15. 15.
    44 Duets for Two Violins: Enumerating Song
    1:02
  16. 16.
    44 Duets for Two Violins: Dance from Maramaros
    0:48
  17. 17.
    Improvisation I
    0:37
  18. 18.
    44 Duets for Two Violins: Bride's Farewell
    1:06
  19. 19.
    44 Duets for Two Violins: A Fairy Tale
    1:28
  20. 20.
    44 Duets for Two Violins: Ruthenian Song
    1:22
  21. 21.
    44 Duets for Two Violins: Cradle Song
    1:35
  22. 22.
    44 Duets for Two Violins: Ruthenian Kolomeika
    0:59
  23. 23.
    44 Duets for Two Violins: Bagpipes
    1:55
  24. 24.
    44 Duets for Two Violins: Soldier's Song
    1:12
  25. 25.
    44 Duets for Two Violins: Hungarian March
    0:40
  26. 26.
    44 Duets for Two Violins: Hungarian March II
    0:55
  27. 27.
    44 Duets for Two Violins: Wallachian Dance
    0:50
  28. 28.
    44 Duets for Two Violins: A Rhythm Song
    1:23
  29. 29.
    44 Duets for Two Violins: New year's Song
    2:05
  30. 30.
    44 Duets for Two Violins: Hungarian Song II
    0:46
  31. 31.
    Improvisation II
    0:31
  32. 32.
    44 Duets for Two Violins: Sorrow
    2:18
  33. 33.
    44 Duets for Two Violins: Teasing Song
    0:26
  34. 34.
    44 Duets for Two Violins: Limping Dance
    0:24
  35. 35.
    44 Duets for Two Violins: Mosquito Dance
    0:51
  36. 36.
    44 Duets for Two Violins: Rumanian Whirling Dance
    0:44
  37. 37.
    44 Duets for Two Violins: Serbian Dance
    1:00
  38. 38.
    44 Duets for Two Violins: Prelude and Canon
    2:53
  39. 39.
    Improvisation III
    0:40
  40. 40.
    44 Duets for Two Violins: New Year's Greeting II
    0:54
  41. 41.
    44 Duets for Two Violins: New Year's Greeting III
    0:58
  42. 42.
    44 Duets for Two Violins: New Year's Greeting IV
    1:01
  43. 43.
    44 Duets for Two Violins: Arabian Sgon
    1:18
  44. 44.
    44 Duets for Two Violins: Scherzo
    0:50
  45. 45.
    44 Duets for Two Violins: Pizzicato
    0:46
  46. 46.
    44 Duets for Two Violins: Comic Song
    0:36
  47. 47.
    44 Duets for Two Violins: Pillo Dance
    1:06
  48. 48.
    Epilogue
    0:24

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