44 Duets For Two Violas BARTOK BELA

Classique

Contenu

Matchmaking song
Maypole Dance
Menuetto
Midsummer Night Song
Slovak Song [1]
Hingarian Song [1]
Walachian Song
Slovak Song [2]
Play Song
Ruthenian Song
Cradle Song
Hay-gathering Song
Wedding Song
Pillow dance
Soldiers' Song
Burlesque
Hungarian March [1]
Hungarian March [2]
A Fairy Tale
Alternating Song
New Year's Greeting [1]
Mosquito dance
Farewell to the Bride
Jeering Song
Hungarian Song [2]
Teasing Song
Limping Dance
Sorrow
New Year's Greeting [2]
New Year's Greeting [3]
New Year's Greeting [4]
Dance from Máramaros
Harvest Song
Enumerating Song
Rithenian Kolomeika
Bagpipes - Variation of #36
Prelude and Canon
Rumanian Whirling Dance [Invartita batranilor]
Serbian Dance [Zaplet]
Walachian Dance
Scherzo
Arabian Song
Pizzicato
Transylvanian Dance [Ardeleana]

Description :

Béla Bartók composed his 44 Violin Duos in 1931, at the urging of the German violin pedagogue Erich Doflein. With two exceptions, all the pieces are based on original folk music themes, most of which the composer himself collected in the course of his numerous collecting trips to the Carpathian Basin and in Algeria. Although conceived as parts of a pedagogically motivated set, these little pieces are highly effective in concert performance as well. The viola transcriptions follow Bartóks original faithfully.