Allegro barbaro / Suite, op. 14 / Szonata (1926)

Album by Béla Bartók & Zoltán Kocsis

This album is a collection of piano works by Hungarian composer Béla Bartók, released in 1926. It showcases the percussive, rhythmically driven modernist piano language Bartók developed in the 1920s, blending modal folk-derived melodies, dissonant harmonies and stark rhythmic contrasts, and marks a phase in his career where he moved towards a more austere, rhythm-centred idiom that shaped his subsequent output.
First released: 1978

Tracklist

  1. 1.
    Allegro barbaro
    2:35
  2. 2.
    Three Rondos on Folk Melodies
    8:14
  3. 3.
    Three Hungarian Folksongs
    3:40
  4. 4.
    Suite, op. 14
    8:44
  5. 5.
    Sonata: I. Allegro moderato
    4:34
  6. 6.
    Sonata: II. Sostenuto e pesante
    4:14
  7. 7.
    Sonata: III. Allegro molto
    3:21
  8. 8.
    Rumanian Folk Dances
    5:15
  9. 9.
    Old Dancing Tunes / Fifteen Hungarian Peasant Songs nos. 7-15
    5:56

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