Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta / Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion

This album compiles two major works by Hungarian composer Béla Bartók, composed in 1936 and 1937. Both works exemplify Bartók's mature modernist language, blending folk-derived modes and irregular rhythms with rigorous formal design, inventive orchestration and prominent percussion and piano textures contrasted with dense string writing, and they occupy a pivotal place in his late-career exploration of percussive timbres and expanded instrumental colour.