Bartók: Miraculous Mandarin Suite Op.19 $195.00 - $995.00 The Miraculous Mandarin (A csodálatos mandarin / Der wunderbare Mandarin) Op. 19, Sz. 73 (BB 82), is a one act pantomime ballet composed by Béla Bartók between 1918 and 1924, and based on the 1916 story by Melchior Lengyel. Premiered...
Bartok: Viola Concerto $750.00 REPRINT SERIES The Viola Concerto in A minor, Sz. 120, BB 128 (also known as Concerto for Viola and Orchestra) was one of the last pieces written by Béla Bartók. He began composing his viola concerto while living in Saranac Lake, New York,...
Bartok - Concerto for Two Pianos, Percussion and Orchestra $159.95 - $585.00 REPRINT SERIES In 1940, at the suggestion of his publisher and agent, Heinsheimer, Bartók orchestrated his Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion as Concerto for Two Pianos, Percussion and Orchestra. The parts for the four soloists were essentially...
Bartok: Piano Concerto No.3 Sz.119 $195.00 - $750.00 Bartók composed the piece in 1945 during the final months of his life, as a surprise birthday present for his second wife Ditta Pásztory-Bartók. It consists of three movements.Piano Concerto No. 3 consists of three movements:1...
Bartok: Piano Concerto No.2 Sz.95 $149.95 - $675.00 Bartók’s less hair-raising, but longer, companion to the 1926 concerto. He said he wanted a work “less bristling with difficulties for the orchestra and whose thematic material would be more pleasing”. He characterized this...
Bartok: Hungarian Pictures (Sketches) Sz.97 $129.95 - $449.95 The Hungarian Pictures, also known as Hungarian Sketches, are probably Bartók's most popular orchestral transcriptions. Each of the five pieces was originally conceived for the piano. the first two, "Evening in Transylvania" and "Bear Dance," are...
Bartok: First Rhapsody for Violin and Orchestra SZ.87 $75.00 REPRINT SERIES The First Rhapsody is dedicated to Hungarian virtuoso violinist Joseph Szigeti, a close friend of Bartok. Bartók evidently composed both rhapsodies purely as a personal gesture, rather than on commission, and did so without telling...
Bartok: Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta $129.95 Bartók divides the strings into two groups which he directs should be placed antiphonally on opposite sides of the stage, and he makes use of antiphonal effects particularly in the second and fourth movements.The piece is in four movements, the...
Bartok: Concerto for Orchestra $195.00 - $799.95 EDITION ZEZA REPRINT SERIESThe Concerto for Orchestra, Sz. 116 is a five-movement musical work for orchestra and one of Bartok's best-known, most popular and most accessible works. I. Introduzione. Andante non troppo - Allegro vivaceThe first movement,...
Bartok - Violin Concerto No.2 $179.50 - $695.00 This concerto was dedicated to the Hungarian violin virtuoso, Zoltán Székely, who requested the composition in 1936,[1] and is a prime example of verbunkos style. Bartók initially planned to write a single-movement set of...
Bartok - Violin Concerto No.1 Sz.36 Op. posth. $169.99 - $599.99 EDITION ZEZA REPRINT SERIES Béla Bartók's Violin Concerto No. 1, BB 48a was written in the years 1907–1908. The concerto was dedicated to the violinist Stefi Geyer, with whom Bartók was in love. Geyer could not reciprocate...
Bartok: Second Rhapsody for Violin and Orchestra SZ.90 $120.00 - $365.00 Rhapsody No.2 SZ.90 is the second of two folk dances (often called "Hungarian Rhapsodies") for Violin and Orchestra that Bartók wrote in 1928. The 2nd Rhapsody is dedicated to the violinist Zoltán Székely, the founder of the...
Bartók - Divertimento for String Orchestra SZ.113 $79.95 Divertimento for String Orchestra Sz.113 BB.118 is a three-movement piece that conforms to traditional structures, respectively, of sonata form, ternary form and rondo form. It was composed in 1939 and dedicated to the Basel Chamber Orchestra. 1...
Bartok - Romanian Folk Dances, Sz.68 for Orchestra $39.95 Romanian Folk Dances is a suite of six short piano pieces composed by Béla Bartók in 1915. He later orchestrated it for small ensemble in 1917. It is based on seven Romanian fiddle tunes from Transylvania.