|
|
Classical Music Home
>
BARTOK, B.: For Children, Vols. 1 and 2 / The First Term at the Piano (L. Kertesz)
|
|

|
|
BARTOK, B.: For Children, Vols. 1 and 2 / The First Term at the Piano (L. Kertesz)
|
|
For Children and The First Term at the Piano represent Béla Bartók’s commitment to music education in Hungary, but also draw on the research into folk-song he did together with Zoltán Kodály. These original Hungarian songs and progressive pieces are presented with great clarity, preserving authentic rhythms and character with transparent and sometimes deceptively simple accompaniments. Award-winning Hungarian pianist Lajos Kertész is part of the tradition from which Bartók himself emerged, and he includes Kodály amongst his teachers. This is the second of four volumes of Bartók’s piano music.
|

For Children, BB 53, Vol. 1 (based on Hungarian folk tunes)
|
1.
|
|
No. 1. Children at Play (Allegro)
00:00:33
|
|
|
2.
|
|
No. 2. Children's Song (Andante)
00:01:00
|
|
|
3.
|
|
No. 3. Andante
00:00:53
|
|
|
4.
|
|
No. 4. Pillow Dance (Allegro)
00:00:54
|
|
|
5.
|
|
No. 5. Play (Allegretto)
00:01:15
|
|
|
6.
|
|
No. 6. Study for the Left Hand (Allegro)
00:00:49
|
|
|
7.
|
|
No. 7. Song (Andante grazioso)
00:00:37
|
|
|
8.
|
|
No. 8. Play Song (Allegretto)
00:01:46
|
|
|
9.
|
|
No. 9. Song (Adagio)
00:01:09
|
|
|
10.
|
|
No. 10. Children's Dance (Allegro molto)
00:00:41
|
|
|
11.
|
|
No. 11. Molto sustenuto
00:01:15
|
|
|
12.
|
|
No. 12. Allegro
00:01:26
|
|
|
13.
|
|
No. 13. Ballad (Andante)
00:01:07
|
|
|
14.
|
|
No. 14. Allegretto
00:00:31
|
|
|
15.
|
|
No. 15. Allegro
00:00:36
|
|
|
16.
|
|
No. 16. Old Hungarian Tune (Andante rubato)
00:00:47
|
|
|
17.
|
|
No. 17. Round Dance (Lento)
00:01:10
|
|
|
18.
|
|
No. 18. Soldier's Song (Andante non troppo)
00:01:04
|
|
|
19.
|
|
No. 19. Allegretto
00:00:45
|
|
|
20.
|
|
No. 20. Drinking Song (Allegro)
00:00:36
|
|
|
21.
|
|
No. 21. Allegro robusto
00:00:58
|
|

For Children, BB 53, Vol. 2 (based on Hungarian folk tunes)
|
22.
|
|
No. 22. Allegretto
00:00:52
|
|
|
23.
|
|
No. 23. Dance Song (Allegro grazioso)
00:00:51
|
|
|
24.
|
|
No. 24. Andante sostenuto
00:01:06
|
|
|
25.
|
|
No. 25. Parlando
00:00:43
|
|
|
26.
|
|
No. 26. Moderato
00:00:50
|
|
|
27.
|
|
No. 27. Jest (Allegramente)
00:00:58
|
|
|
28.
|
|
No. 28. Choral (Andante)
00:01:49
|
|
|
29.
|
|
No. 29. Pentatonic tune (Allegro scherzando)
00:00:55
|
|
|
30.
|
|
No. 30. Jeering Song (Allegro ironico)
00:00:44
|
|
|
31.
|
|
No. 31. Andante tranquillo
00:01:52
|
|
|
32.
|
|
No. 32. Andante
00:01:24
|
|
|
33.
|
|
No. 33. Allegro non troppo
00:00:55
|
|
|
34.
|
|
No. 34. Allegretto
00:00:40
|
|
|
35.
|
|
No. 35. Con moto
00:00:31
|
|
|
36.
|
|
No. 36. Drunkard's Song (Vivace)
00:00:43
|
|
|
37.
|
|
No. 37. Swinehard's Song
00:00:44
|
|
|
38.
|
|
No. 38. Winter Solstice Song (Molto vivace)
00:01:17
|
|
|
39.
|
|
No. 39. Allegro moderato
00:01:59
|
|
|
40.
|
|
No. 40. Swineherd's Dance (Allegro vivace)
00:01:56
|
|

The First Term at the Piano, BB 66
|
41.
|
|
No. 1. Moderato
00:00:35
|
|
|
42.
|
|
No. 2. Moderato
00:00:45
|
|
|
43.
|
|
No. 3. Parbeszed (Dialogue): Moderato
00:00:34
|
|
|
44.
|
|
No. 4. Parbeszed (Dialogue): Moderato
00:00:46
|
|
|
45.
|
|
No. 5. Moderato
00:00:25
|
|
|
46.
|
|
No. 6. Moderato
00:00:45
|
|
|
47.
|
|
No. 7. Nepdal (Folksong): Moderato
00:00:37
|
|
|
48.
|
|
No. 8. Andante
00:00:46
|
|
|
49.
|
|
No. 9. Andante
00:00:40
|
|
|
50.
|
|
No. 10. Nepdal (Folksong): Allegro
00:00:59
|
|
|
51.
|
|
No. 11. Menuett: Andante
00:00:42
|
|
|
52.
|
|
No. 12. Kanasztanc (Swineherd's dance): Allegro
00:01:22
|
|
|
53.
|
|
No. 13. Hol jartal, baranykam - nepdal (Where have you been, my lambkin - folksong): Andante
00:00:59
|
|
|
54.
|
|
No. 14. Andante
00:01:02
|
|
|
55.
|
|
No. 15. Lakodalmas (Wedding dance): Moderato
00:00:36
|
|
|
56.
|
|
No. 16. Paraszttanc (Peasant's dance): Allegro moderato
00:00:22
|
|
|
57.
|
|
No. 17. Allegro deciso
00:00:32
|
|
|
58.
|
|
No. 18. Keringo (Waltz): Tempo di valse
00:00:41
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total Playing Time:
00:53:49
|
|
|
|

|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|