44 Duos for Two Violins (1931)

Album by Béla Bartók & André Gertler & Josef Suk

44 Duos for Two Violins is a set of pedagogical duets by Hungarian composer Béla Bartók, composed in 1931. Written for two violins with progressive difficulty, the pieces draw on Central and Eastern European folk melodies and modes, employ modal scales, irregular rhythms and contrapuntal textures, and form part of Bartók's pedagogical output and his systematic incorporation of folk material into twentieth-century classical music.

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  1. 1.
    44 Duos for Two Violins, Sz 98: 1. Teasing Song 1
    0:54
  2. 2.
    44 Duos for Two Violins, Sz 98: 2. Maypole Dance
    0:32
  3. 3.
    44 Duos for Two Violins, Sz 98: 3. Menuetto
    0:42
  4. 4.
    44 Duos for Two Violins, Sz 98: 4. Midsummer Night Song
    0:36
  5. 5.
    44 Duos for Two Violins, Sz 98: 5. Slovakian Song 1
    0:52
  6. 6.
    44 Duos for Two Violins, Sz 98: 6. Hungarian Song 1
    0:48
  7. 7.
    44 Duos for Two Violins, Sz 98: 7. Walachian Song
    0:46
  8. 8.
    44 Duos for Two Violins, Sz 98: 8. Slovakian Song 2
    1:03
  9. 9.
    44 Duos for Two Violins, Sz 98: 9. Play Song
    0:36
  10. 10.
    44 Duos for Two Violins, Sz 98: 10. Ruthenian Song
    1:19
  11. 11.
    44 Duos for Two Violins, Sz 98: 11. Cradle Song
    1:08
  12. 12.
    44 Duos for Two Violins, Sz 98: 12. Haymaking Song
    0:52
  13. 13.
    44 Duos for Two Violins, Sz 98: 13. Wedding Song
    1:19
  14. 14.
    44 Duos for Two Violins, Sz 98: 14. Pillow Dance
    0:40
  15. 15.
    44 Duos for Two Violins, Sz 98: 15. Soldier's Song
    0:45
  16. 16.
    44 Duos for Two Violins, Sz 98: 16. Burlesque
    0:53
  17. 17.
    44 Duos for Two Violins, Sz 98: 17. Hungarian March 1
    0:44
  18. 18.
    44 Duos for Two Violins, Sz 98: 18. Hungarian March 2
    0:40
  19. 19.
    44 Duos for Two Violins, Sz 98: 19. A Fairy Tale
    1:02
  20. 20.
    44 Duos for Two Violins, Sz 98: 20. A Rhythm Song
    1:34
  21. 21.
    44 Duos for Two Violins, Sz 98: 21. New Year's Song 1
    1:57
  22. 22.
    44 Duos for Two Violins, Sz 98: 22. Mosquito Dance
    0:39
  23. 23.
    44 Duos for Two Violins, Sz 98: 23. Bride's Farewell
    1:24
  24. 24.
    44 Duos for Two Violins, Sz 98: 24. Comic Song
    0:38
  25. 25.
    44 Duos for Two Violins, Sz 98: 25. Hungarian Song 2
    0:50
  26. 26.
    44 Duos for Two Violins, Sz 98: 26. Teasing Song 2
    0:28
  27. 27.
    44 Duos for Two Violins, Sz 98: 27. Limping Dance
    0:26
  28. 28.
    44 Duos for Two Violins, Sz 98: 28. Sorrow
    2:26
  29. 29.
    44 Duos for Two Violins, Sz 98: 29. New Year's Song 2
    0:45
  30. 30.
    44 Duos for Two Violins, Sz 98: 30. New Year's Song 3
    0:44
  31. 31.
    44 Duos for Two Violins, Sz 98: 31. New Year's Song 4
    0:43
  32. 32.
    44 Duos for Two Violins, Sz 98: 32. Dancing Song From Maramaros
    0:38
  33. 33.
    44 Duos for Two Violins, Sz 98: 33. Harvest Song
    1:53
  34. 34.
    44 Duos for Two Violins, Sz 98: 34. Counting Song
    0:48
  35. 35.
    44 Duos for Two Violins, Sz 98: 35. Ruthenian Kolomejka
    0:57
  36. 36.
    44 Duos for Two Violins, Sz 98: 36. The Bagpipe: Variation
    2:08
  37. 37.
    44 Duos for Two Violins, Sz 98: 37. Prelude and Canon
    2:55
  38. 38.
    44 Duos for Two Violins, Sz 98: 38. Rumanian Whirling Dance
    0:40
  39. 39.
    44 Duos for Two Violins, Sz 98: 39. Serbian Dance
    0:52
  40. 40.
    44 Duos for Two Violins, Sz 98: 40. Walachian Dance
    0:42
  41. 41.
    44 Duos for Two Violins, Sz 98: 41. Scherzo
    0:48
  42. 42.
    44 Duos for Two Violins, Sz 98: 42. Arabian Song
    1:18
  43. 43.
    44 Duos for Two Violins, Sz 98: 43. Pizzicato
    0:54
  44. 44.
    44 Duos for Two Violins, Sz 98: 44. Transylvanian Dance
    1:26

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