Good to have access to these recordings. I don't recall ever known of them. More years ago than I care to tell here I much enjoyed sharing For Children and Mikrokosmos with my daughter. The interpretations were at times a little different from Bartok's apparent intentions. It is also very pleasing to have nicely chosen, pertinent accompanying images.
The way he hits that chord at 7:05-7:06, the big ringing half-cadence in the middle of that piece, and the way it rings, with certain notes singing out above the others, I've NEVER heard that kind of tone in my life, not even quite from Godowsky, although I would not dream of putting one above the other.
Anyone has the actual sheet for 7:53 "allegro robusto no. 21"? The variant he plays at the repeat (from 8:15) is quite different from what's published in the official sheet (simple repetition). I really love this piece and this version is even cooler!
No.31, Andante Tranquillo. This is really beautiful, I think a song for all the day's work is done, as on a farm, when bedtime is approaching. This is of course the most perfect playing of it... For Aquarius, a different idea might be good also- slow, M.M. 40; Dreamy and pedalled, sort of "Through a glass, clearly". Aquarius became a Water Sign at its advent; Pisces an Air one at that time. The rasa, the Gnostics called this The Psychic Aeon; of Mind; Aquarius was more an aeon for Dreamers, Dreaming; Pre-mind, Protennoia... Also, Mind was most associated with The Peaceful One....
It gives a will and to study with enthousiasm Bela Bartok. I think that For "Children" especially the first one Vol 1 N°3 Quasi adagio I would very much like to learn it. Music has to be taught with enthousiasm. Thank you.
Danke für diese Einstellung, nun können wir hören wie Bartok selbst spielte und vor allem artikulierte. In den Notenausgaben finde ich Tempi, rit and accel nicht explizit angegeben.
It comes from a Hungarian folk tune "Házasodik a tücsök" which means "crickets get married". th-cam.com/video/98wJprozVA4/w-d-xo.html&ab_channel=Guly%C3%A1sFerenc-Topic
I love these pieces.However I think they are very difficult for an average pupil.Some of the pieces are harmonically way above their concept of a " nice song". Children should already have an excellent coordination and very flexible , relaxed wrists before attempting the difficult ones. They are more for adults.Bartok was an acerbic man and very distant as a teacher , so I think he enjoyed composing these pieces more then thinking about whether children could actually play them .
It's a bit the same with Mikrokosmos. It's a great set, and the difficulty progression is clear and well thought out, but it's also very steep. He claimed that the first three books are sufficient in themselves and that the student doesn't need any supplementary material to progress through. Bartok, please, I've had to supplement the first three books with more than 200 pieces of a similar or easier difficulty, and still, Mikrokosmos felt at times impossibly hard.
¡Gracias! Son joyas de grandes compositores dedicadas a la infancia. Estoy grabándolas yo tambien, Bartók es uno de mis compositores preferidos, Quien toca bien Bartok puede con todo, th-cam.com/video/w_PzFrgab28/w-d-xo.html y el microcosmos es otra joya.
Does anyone know if there's a link to this album? I'm looking specifically for Vol. 1: No.3. Quasi Adagio. I'm looking for the record label that owns/controls the rights to this sound recording. A link to the album or a picture of the album cover, front and back, and the record label would be great. Thanks!!
Pillow Dance, album: For Children, Béla Bartók, uitgever Boosey &Hawkes, piano solo. I don't know how to sent you the picture of my album.... Hope you can find it with my info
Thank you for posting the information. I was able to find the album but I don't think it's the same one as what I hear in this video. The recording in this video sounds like a much older recording and you can hear the crackle of the needle on the record. This is the album that I listened to and the tracks are clean and clear. hungarotonmusic.com/classical/for-children-p1629.html I"m not sure if the recording on the CD is a remastering of the same album that is heard in this video so I'm going to contact the record label, Hungaroton, and also Boosey & Hawkes to see if they can point me in the right direction to find where this exact recording came from.
I found it. The album is "Bartók the Pianist" (album #BB 53, 1908-1909). Here's a link to the album and you can hear the exact old recording with the crackle sound. hungarotonmusic.com/search/tracks.html?sort=popularity--d#;
No.31, Andante Tranquillo- very old, was called Accordance; in old Ossetian language, not Magyar nor Hungarian; the latter language actually came from Drexexezeca, a brother race of Magyars, both came from a former planet, Mars.
Wow. What a wonderful gift to hear these recordings. Bartok is truly the “composer’s composer.”
learning these pieces now.... honestly, how cool is it that I can hear the Man himself play them?!!? BIG THANKS for the upload
Bartoks voice sounds so lovely! What a wonderful series of lovely pieces where I see children dancing happily in the garden!
No. 3 Quasi Adagio - 0:04
No. 4 Pillow Dance - 0:55
No. 6 Study for the Left Hand - 1:43
No. 10 Children’s Dance - 2:26
No. 12 Allegro - 3:10
No. 13 Ballad - 4:37
No. 15 Allegro moderato - 5:32
No. 18 Soldier’s Song - 6:05
No. 19 Allegretto - 7:12
No. 21 Allegro robusto - 7:52
No. 26 Moderato - 8:51
No. 34 Allegretto - 9:35
No. 35 Con moto - 10:08
No. 31 Andante tranquillo - 10:39
No. 30 Jeering Song - 12:12
Thank you 😊
This was recorded in the New Jersey "Kossuth" Radio studio, in 1945.
In his final year....wow...really....wow
Good to have access to these recordings. I don't recall ever known of them. More years ago than I care to tell here I much enjoyed sharing For Children and Mikrokosmos with my daughter. The interpretations were at times a little different from Bartok's apparent intentions. It is also very pleasing to have nicely chosen, pertinent accompanying images.
The way he hits that chord at 7:05-7:06, the big ringing half-cadence in the middle of that piece, and the way it rings, with certain notes singing out above the others, I've NEVER heard that kind of tone in my life, not even quite from Godowsky, although I would not dream of putting one above the other.
You might like Michel Béroff's interpretation of Debussy's _La Fille aux Cheveux de Lin_ there is a central chord which is also quite dramatic.
I am amazed. Bartok’s way of playing is so different and playful! 7:52 I love these pieces. Thank you for uploading. 😃
Beautiful ! A wonderful way to learn music. Thank you.
That first piece sounds so magical, I love it.
Try to learn it, it's pretty easy!
This is a treasure. Thank you!
Thank you for uploading this!
I love this! Thank you for sharing!
I loved it! 😍😍😍
Anyone has the actual sheet for 7:53 "allegro robusto no. 21"? The variant he plays at the repeat (from 8:15) is quite different from what's published in the official sheet (simple repetition). I really love this piece and this version is even cooler!
No.31, Andante Tranquillo. This is really beautiful, I think a song for all the day's work is done, as on a farm, when bedtime is approaching. This is of course the most perfect playing of it... For Aquarius, a different idea might be good also- slow, M.M. 40; Dreamy and pedalled, sort of "Through a glass, clearly". Aquarius became a Water Sign at its advent; Pisces an Air one at that time. The rasa, the Gnostics called this The Psychic Aeon; of Mind; Aquarius was more an aeon for Dreamers, Dreaming; Pre-mind, Protennoia... Also, Mind was most associated with The Peaceful One....
It gives a will and to study with enthousiasm Bela Bartok. I think that For "Children" especially the first one Vol 1 N°3 Quasi adagio I would very much like to learn it. Music has to be taught with enthousiasm. Thank you.
Danke für diese Einstellung, nun können wir hören wie Bartok selbst spielte und vor allem artikulierte. In den Notenausgaben finde ich Tempi, rit and accel nicht explizit angegeben.
Very interesting. I was surprised how faster and even lauder he played Children's Song (at the very beginning) comparing with current interpretation
As a former child, I approve this video.
Bartok beefs up some of his piano writing to adult capacities. The musicality and character are striking.
I know so many of these pieces are named differently depending on the collection, what are other names for the “Allegro”?
what a treasure
The best
Jo lett👍👍
No. 21 is surprisingly similar to some Mongolian folk tunes
It comes from a Hungarian folk tune "Házasodik a tücsök" which means "crickets get married". th-cam.com/video/98wJprozVA4/w-d-xo.html&ab_channel=Guly%C3%A1sFerenc-Topic
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I love these pieces.However I think they are very difficult for an average pupil.Some of the pieces are harmonically way above their concept of a " nice song". Children should already have an excellent coordination and very flexible , relaxed wrists before attempting the difficult ones. They are more for adults.Bartok was an acerbic man and very distant as a teacher , so I think he enjoyed composing these pieces more then thinking about whether children could actually play them .
It's a bit the same with Mikrokosmos. It's a great set, and the difficulty progression is clear and well thought out, but it's also very steep. He claimed that the first three books are sufficient in themselves and that the student doesn't need any supplementary material to progress through. Bartok, please, I've had to supplement the first three books with more than 200 pieces of a similar or easier difficulty, and still, Mikrokosmos felt at times impossibly hard.
@@timjacobs5057 It seems curriculum levels were higher those days
What is he saying at the beggining?
"Five pieces from the series « For Children »"
it's Bartok?
Javier Flux yup
Bartók's voice: 5 pieces from the collection "For Children"
Recorded in 1945, New Jersey "Kossuth" Radio
"From the piano pieces to children, 5 songs" (almost literally)
Does anyone know by which artist is the painting that appears at 10.10min onwards?
It's by an American painter named Edward Biberman, and the painting is called Children at a Piano.
Thank you!
¡Gracias! Son joyas de grandes compositores dedicadas a la infancia. Estoy grabándolas yo tambien, Bartók es uno de mis compositores preferidos, Quien toca bien Bartok puede con todo,
th-cam.com/video/w_PzFrgab28/w-d-xo.html y el microcosmos es otra joya.
th-cam.com/video/7IASkvrQky0/w-d-xo.html
Bartok per la Romania Chopin per la Polonia uno dei piu geniali pianisti del secolo scorso !!
+Salvatore Arcadipane Bartók era ungherese, e non rumeno. Bartók per la Ungaria, Verdi per la Italia!
Verissimo infatti c'era Pure Zoltan Kodaly , mi sono confuso grazie per avere lasciato un commento un buon pomeriggio !
Salvatore Arcadipane
I see....
Bartók was Hungarian.......!!!
😍
WHAT A PIANIST!!!
Does anyone know if there's a link to this album? I'm looking specifically for Vol. 1: No.3. Quasi Adagio. I'm looking for the record label that owns/controls the rights to this sound recording. A link to the album or a picture of the album cover, front and back, and the record label would be great. Thanks!!
Pillow Dance, album: For Children, Béla Bartók, uitgever Boosey &Hawkes, piano solo.
I don't know how to sent you the picture of my album.... Hope you can find it with my info
Thank you for posting the information. I was able to find the album but I don't think it's the same one as what I hear in this video. The recording in this video sounds like a much older recording and you can hear the crackle of the needle on the record.
This is the album that I listened to and the tracks are clean and clear.
hungarotonmusic.com/classical/for-children-p1629.html
I"m not sure if the recording on the CD is a remastering of the same album that is heard in this video so I'm going to contact the record label, Hungaroton, and also Boosey & Hawkes to see if they can point me in the right direction to find where this exact recording came from.
I found it. The album is "Bartók the Pianist" (album #BB 53, 1908-1909). Here's a link to the album and you can hear the exact old recording with the crackle sound.
hungarotonmusic.com/search/tracks.html?sort=popularity--d#;
No.31, Andante Tranquillo- very old, was called Accordance; in old Ossetian language, not Magyar nor Hungarian; the latter language actually came from Drexexezeca, a brother race of Magyars, both came from a former planet, Mars.
Jó
5:27
I still wonder why Bartok is not Hungary's national composer.
He is.