Description

György Sándor - Béla Bartók - Mikrokosmos / Complete Edition; Edition Integrale / Masterworks Portrait / Sony Classical 2x Audio CD 1992 Mono / MP2K 52528

UPC 5099705252826

Béla Bartók's Mikrokosmos (Hungarian: Mikrokozmosz) Sz. 107, BB 105 consists of 153 progressive piano pieces in six volumes written between 1926 and 1939. The individual pieces progress from very easy and simple beginner études to very difficult advanced technical displays, and are used in modern piano lessons and education. In total, according to Bartók, the piece "appears as a synthesis of all the musical and technical problems which were treated and in some cases only partially solved in the previous piano works." Volumes one and two are dedicated to his son Péter, while volumes five and six are intended as professionally performable concert pieces. Bartók also indicated that these pieces could also be played on other instruments; Huguette Dreyfus, for example, has recorded pieces from Books 3 through 6 on the harpsichord.

Label:	Sony Classical – MP2K 52528
Series:	Masterworks Portrait
Format:	2 x CD,
Country:	Austria
Released:	1992
Genre:	Classical
Style:	Contemporary

Tracklist:

	CD 1 - No.1-96
	Volume 1
1-1	1-6: Six Union Melodies	2:04
1-2	7: Dotted Notes	0:26
1-3	8: Repetition (1)	0:27
1-4	9: Syncopation (1)	0:24
1-5	10: With Alternate Hands	0:39
1-6	11: Parallel Motion	0:22
1-7	12: Reflection	0:22
1-8	13: Change Of Position	0:20
1-9	14: Question And Answer	0:23
1-10	15: Village Song	0:18
1-11	16: Parallel Motion With Change Of Position	0:27
1-12	17: Contrary Motion (1)	0:18
1-13	18-21: Four Unison Melodies	1:06
1-14	22: Imitation And Counterpoint	0:21
1-15	23: Imitation And Inversion (1)	0:19
1-16	24: Pastorale	0:27
1-17	25: Imitation And Inversion (2)	0:38
1-18	26: Repetition (2)	0:21
1-19	27: Syncopation (2)	0:22
1-20	28: Canon At The Octave	0:20
1-21	29: Imitation Reflected	0:23
1-22	30: Canon At The Lower Fifth	0:33
1-23	31: Dance In Canon Form	0:30
1-24	32: In Dorian Mode	0:41
1-25	33: Slow Dance	0:41
1-26	34: In Phrygian Mode	0:47
1-27	35: Chorale	0:56
1-28	36: Free Canon	0:45
	Volume 2
1-29	37: In Lydian Mode	0:38
1-30	38: Staccato And Legato (1)	0:14
1-31	39: Staccato And Lagato (Canon)	0:21
1-32	40: In Yugoslav Style	0:34
1-33	41: Melodiy With Accompaniment	0:49
1-34	42: Accompaniment In Broken Triads	0:32
1-35	43: In Hungarian Style	0:48
1-36	44: Contrary Motion (2)	0:12
1-37	45: Meditation	0:53
1-38	46: Increasing-Dimishing	0:44
1-39	47: County Fair	0:35
1-40	48: In Mixolydian Mode	1:04
1-41	49: Crescendo-Diminuendo	0:20
1-42	50: Minuetto	0:28
1-43	51: Waves	0:27
1-44	52: Unison Divided	0:14
1-45	53: In Transylvanian Style	0:48
1-46	54: Chromatics	0:15
1-47	55: Triplets In Lydian Mode	0:23
1-48	56: Melody In Tenths	0:16
1-49	57: Accents	0:45
1-50	58: In Oriental Style	0:51
1-51	59: Major And Minor	0:41
1-52	60: Canon With Sustained Notes	0:40
1-53	61: Pentatonic Melody	0:43
1-54	62: Minor Sixths In Parallel Motion	0:40
1-55	63: Buzzing	0:35
1-56	64: Line Against Point (a & b)	0:57
1-57	65: Dialogue	0:22
1-58	66: Melody Divided	0:51
	Volume 3
1-59	67: Thirds Against A Single Voice	0:39
1-60	68: Hungarian Dance	0:21
1-61	69: Study In Chords	0:57
1-62	70: Melody Against Double Notes	1:28
1-63	71: Thirds	1:07
1-64	72: Dragon's Dance	0:29
1-65	73: Sixths And Triads	0:31
1-66	74: Hungarian Matchmaking Song (a & b)	1:02
1-67	75: Triplets	0:54
1-68	76: In Three Parts	0:22
1-69	77: Little Study	0:38
1-70	78: Five-tone Scale	0:33
1-71	79: Hommage A J.S.B.	0:55
1-72	80: Hommage A R. Sch.	0:46
1-73	81: Wandering	0:44
1-74	82: Scherzo	0:25
1-75	83: Melody With Interruptions	0:42
1-76	84: Merriment	0:37
1-77	85: Broken Chords	0:46
1-78	86: Two Majors Pentachords	0:57
1-79	87: Variations	1:13
1-80	88: Duet For Pipes	1:03
1-81	89: In Four Parts (1)	0:44
1-82	90: In Russian Style	0:38
1-83	91: Chromatic Invention (1)	0:58
1-84	92: Chromatic Invention (2)	0:40
1-85	93: In Four Parts (2)	0:33
1-86	94: Once Upon A Time...	0:59
1-87	95: Fox Song (a & b)	1:13
1-88	96: Jolts	0:53
	CD 2 - No.97-153
	Volume 4
2-1	97: Notturno	1:48
2-2	98: Thumbs Under	0:28
2-3	99: Hands Crossing	1:15
2-4	100: In Folk Song Style	0:59
2-5	101: Diminished Fifth	1:02
2-6	102: Harmonics	1:22
2-7	103: Minor And Major	1:18
2-8	104: Wandering Through The Keys (a & b)	0:52
2-9	105: Game (With Two Five-tone Scales)	0:55
2-10	106: Children's Song	1:17
2-11	107: Melody In The Mist	1:22
2-12	108: Wrestling	1:03
2-13	109: From The Island Of Bali	2:00
2-14	110: And The Sounds Clash And Clang	1:06
2-15	111: Intermezzo	2:03
2-16	112: Variations On A Folk Tune	1:05
2-17	113: Bulgarian Rhythm (1)	0:56
2-18	114: Theme And Inversion	1:10
2-19	115: Bulgarian Rhythm (2)	0:27
2-20	116: Song	1:20
2-21	117: Bourrée	0:53
2-22	118: Triplets In 9/8 Time	0:48
2-23	119: Dance In 3/4 Time	0:47
2-24	120: Triads	0:52
2-25	121: Two-part Study	1:08
	Volume 5
2-26	122: Chords Together And In Opposition	1:03
2-27	123: Staccato And Legato (2) (a & b)	0:49
2-28	124: Staccato	1:11
2-29	125: Boating	1:33
2-30	126: Change Of Time	0:36
2-31	127: New Hungarian Folk Song	0:50
2-32	128: Stamping Dance	1:14
2-33	129: Alternating Thirds	0:43
2-34	130: Village Joke	0:49
2-35	131: Fourths	0:46
2-36	132: Major Seconds Broken And Together	1:50
2-37	133: Syncopation (3)	1:02
2-38	134: Studies In Double Notes (a, b & c)	0:36
2-39	135: Perpetuum Mobile	0:52
2-40	136: Whole-tone Scales	1:50
2-41	137: Unison	1:51
2-42	138: Bagpipe Music	1:06
2-43	139: Jack-in-the-Box	0:53
	Volume 6
2-44	140: Free Variations	1:37
2-45	141: Subject And Reflection	1:11
2-46	142: From The Diary Of A Fly	1:22
2-47	143: Divided Arpeggios	1:56
2-48	144: Minor Seconds, Major Sevenths	3:41
2-49	145: Chromatic Invention (3) (a & b)	3:33
2-50	146: Ostinato	2:02
2-51	147: March	1:41
2-52	148: Six Dances In Bulgarian Rhythm (1)	1:49
2-53	149: Six Dances In Bulgarian Rhythm (2)	1:01
2-54	150: Six Dances In Bulgarian Rhythm (3)	1:09
2-55	151: Six Dances In Bulgarian Rhythm (4)	1:19
2-56	152: Six Dances In Bulgarian Rhythm (5)	1:01
2-57	153: Six Dances In Bulgarian Rhythm (6)	1:47