Béla Bartók at the piano Allegro Barbaro

[LaraCroftTombRaid]

try john stump - death waltz ;D

[TMn00b]

There's an adaption of this piece by Emerson, Lake and Palmer called "The Barbarian" . It's pretty cool.

[KBCeasyas123]

-3*

[KBCeasyas123]

Marilyn Monroe loved his music. She was a goddess -3

[springfieldblues]

Check out his first string quartet. In the middle of the first movement there is a strange droning sequence which is quite frightening - in a Transylvania sort of way. Wonderful music!!

[Ankhsnammon]

@ARobinsonization

Bartok uses the pentatonic scale,and makes music.

Megadeth only makes noises

[lexusis220d]

let us not forget, bartok was not only a great composer but one of the best pianists of his time, too. and if a composer is playing his own work, that is the most authentic rendition to me... thanks for sharing...

[springfieldblues]

Hey - this guy must have been listening to a lot of Emerson, lake & palmer. LOL!! Seriously - not. (:-)

[Ankhsnammon]

@springfieldblues

please!be serious!do not insult Bartok's memory!!!He was a true composer!An artist!!

The ones you make mention of are..vulgar liars!

[springfieldblues]

@Ankhsnammon Please be serious. As an "artist", Bela certainly should have been aware of the value of humor (which my statement was). Being influenced by Hungarian folk culture, that would be doubly true. Above all, an artist is a human being and "art' is the most "human" of endeavours. I think the composer himself would have got my joke.

[fireasdf1]

I wish I had this in Vynil. Awesome.

[bootheven]

Interesting work.

[blummy24x7]

Great to hear him perform it - wonderful work.

[gerardbedecarter]

Thanks for uploading this performance by Bartok himself.

[joecopti]

Could ANYONE SHOW ME HOW THE PEASANT PRAYER NO. 40 CAN BE PLAYED? THANKS. JOELLE

[wx3b]

Well now, one mystery is solved! Sounds like Keith Emerson liked this song alot!

[professortheremin]

@wx3b He must have. Let's also not forget that "Knife Edge", from that same first album, was based on the "Sinfonietta" by Leos Janacek.

[Ankhsnammon]

@professortheremin

these pseudo symphonists whom were born rock and roll vulgar noisers...

[sevilia91]

shit...



[mysterygirl959]

how do you even start this???

[mrbrianmccarthy]

I cant believe how fast he plays this! Wow.

[krokodilparadies]

Hey, this is jazz - Bela Bartok has been a very progressive composer.

[SuperJustin2001]

WOW!!

[SuperJustin2001]

WOW

[classicalmusic29]

If I can fine tune this piece from a few months ago, I'll upload a video to my channel. I considered it one of my signature pieces that I really liked.

[forglegorktheork]

I'm playing an arrangement of this in my high school band wind ensemble. I've got the flute part and the melody with flute is just baffling.

[olimar12345]

i luv this song

[werq34ac]

Wow! he's so good, his picture can play the piece

[101division44]

I'm playing this today...It is awesome to play.....Made me feel a little psychotic when playing this...

[dizifreakdizi96]

ist das das erste stück von bela bartok

bitte schnell antworten

[Helfalas]

@dizifreakdizi96 ja et war das erste stück von bela bartok

[bridrice]

Does anyone remember the fun version Emerson, Lake and Palmer did of this piece?

[TheSynthExperience]

@bridrice I am listening to it right now!

[RedSiberianBluesman]

@bridrice Yeah! The Barbarian! Great arrangement.

[composer333]

@RedSiberianBluesman It was ELP's debut album first cut also==big effect opening a career with this work.

[magicmike618]

@composer333 titled the barbarian.

[KahokoRen]

where can i download this piece? on mp3?

[Starbirdy9999]

@KahokoRen imslp.org

[6006vajta]

Béla Bartoók 1000 Forint

[fredericfranc]

Some unmusical speculation, but this is a visual medium too. A very cool looking guy, he looks even cooler holding a cigarette, like a Bogart or something. Did all this smoking make his hair turn white, and also throw out his immune system?

[GBWagner1]

He plays the best. What a dynamism!

Many thanks!!!

[aspergershawn]

My teacher was Gergely Szokolay, hungarian pianist, son of Sandor Szokolay the composer. I studied this piece with Gergely and performed it for him and in concert - I was very pleased and, surprisingly, so was my teacher. I haven't played it in 20 years, so tonight I read it over and will clean it up. It has wonderful rhythmic nuances and it is fun to play - lots of special articulations such as tenuto.

[asliuf]

I've never liked allegro barbaro. I came here to give it another listen, another chance, and I still don't like it. Bartok has such wonderful and incredible music! why did he write this crap?! I must be missing something.

[satchisthebest]

Atonality maybe? Dissonance?

[asliuf]

meh. There's no atonality in this piece. There's some dissonance, but not so much that that's it's defining characteristic. (I think both atonality and dissonance can be very musical and expressive, however.)

Allegro Barbaro is just loud banging on a piano, in my estimation. Calling it what it is -- barbaro = barbaric -- doesnt make it more sophisticated.

[asliuf]

@ whomever disliked my comment:

sorry if you found it distasteful. I don't mean to insult Bartok, I greatly admire his body of work. Just not this particular work :)

[mamaiatataia]

this is amazing!

[vinegarwine]

Köszönöm 5*

[FranzLisztian]

I prefer alkan's allegro barbaro

[bob20202020]

This is almost as good as Emerson Lake & Palmer's version (yeah, I said it.)

[jamogre]

lol 5 thumbs downs - a bit harsh?

the ELP version is better - no doubt about that

[brandistocker]

@jamogre

ok but if there isn't a Bartok's version, ther could never been an ELP version. He composed this. I hope you knew it

[Edrosza]

Es fantástico escuchar de las propias manos de Bartók una de sus piezas más extraordinarias de principios del siglo XX. Bartók cambió para siempre la técnica pianística y convirtió al piano en un instrumento de percusión. Sus hallazgos son tan revolucionarios como los que hicieron Chopin y Liszt en el siglo XIX.

[aicos1424katsu]

Excelente uso de la razon Aurea en la musica

[DerJayger]

These slight tempo-variations are so beautiful! the whole piece is unreal!

[djrbfm]

agreed,jr.

[HarveyMalla]

no...... Bela Viktor Janos Bartok.....

[ssyreeni]

I'm always amazed at how truly difficult and counter-intuitive Bartok's rhythmic influences are for newer performers. There's *always* that slight difference, in the newer performers thinking it's about what's on the notes, and Bartok going with his own innate understanding of Hungarian folk music. It's much akin to the famed "blue note" or the "funk beat"; we don't have a proper notation for those sorts of things yet.

[tomestubbs]

It's not Heavy Metal Rock n' Roll, it's better! Bartok is one of my favorites especially the Miraculous Mandarin, Music for Strings Percusion and Celeste and Divertmento 4 Strings...

[gainweighttoday]

I played on Bartok's Bösebdorfer imperial in Budapest... my hands were trembling :P

[operafan85]

You are very fortunate... My hands should have done so....

[menmaatresety]

@gainweighttoday I would faint from the pure genius that must exude from that instrument....

[cuncullone]

@gainweighttoday

elhiszem... i can imagine :)

[cuncullone]

@gainweighttoday elhiszem... I can imagine :)

[cheries5]

@gainweighttoday WOW

[13243546abcdef]

frickin awesome

[adbmusico75]

psichedelic music! it's wonderful!

[fallenangel3652]

is this a recording of Bartok himself or another pianist? Ive heard many different interpretations and tempi...

[brandistocker]

Performed by the writer, or composer:Bartók Béla (Béla is the firstname) . It was on Hungarian Radio in 1929 too.

[ZhangZhongShi]

No...Bartók was his first name...

[scaphandro]

very good

[backuepi]

sounds like heavy metal

[ZeppelinFromtheLake]

Emerson, lake and Palmer re- did it rock style with organ, bass and drums great tune! :-)

[Hyardacil]

Yeah, Barbarian from their first album. A great one.

[RoseBlackWarlock]

It f'n' KICKS ASS!!! \m/ \m/

;D

[darkthunderz13]

@backuepi You mean heavy metal sounds like this? :)

[Ankhsnammon]

@darkthunderz13

please,heavy metal does not make any sense!!!

we are talking about music,not about coarse noises!

[darkthunderz13]

@Ankhsnammon Also, all music has its place, so don't pan other genres and try to defend just one using a hypocritical justification. It basically makes your whole argument invalid.

[12nlkd3]

Kedvencem, köszönöm hogy feltetted.

My favourite, thank you for uploading.

[Scarbogn]

I saw Bartok himself playing part of this piece in an old video, it was a documental of Yehudi Menuhin, Bartok composed a violin sonata for him.

Bartok was an awesome pianist and also a composer.

5 Stars.

[konzolmester]

Thats my fav composer :-)

[kamikaze9531]

miért? :)

[konzolmester]

Belső lelkem egyrészét ez a stílus tükrözi.

[Kobzar3374]

Very interesting music.

[datdoodnick]

Our high school marching band played this in a show last season..

Great fun..

[jangartack]

ya sea la version de ELP o está, las dos son creaciones unicas con arreglos excelentes.

basta de discutir idioteces.

saludos ^^

[audiophile55]

Someone in here obviously have something against ELP. ELP used this as the basis of their piece "The Barbarian" on their first album. I think Bela Bartok would have been very pleased to hear what they did, because they didn't adulterate his piece at all.

[yamex5]

I think the problem is that ELP, as much as I respect Keith Emerson, didn't give credit to Bartok. I don't think that Keith was trying to mislead people, though.

[audiophile55]

You're right. When the first ELP album was first released, they didn't credit him. In later releases, they added the credits on both the album cover, and the vinyl record label.

[stears81]

Are you stupid? Keith Emerson was born after Bartók's death. So ELP copy the music of the old author

[audiophile55]

No, thank you, I am *not* "stupid"...but I didn't say that ELP didn't "copy" the music of Bartok.

[fotopic001]

Me hubiese encantado que sea contemporaneo a mi,,, XD

[diarexa]

is very nice!*

i love bartok!*

[krino2lino]

a hurry in the castle..

[biotonk]

Bartok is the highest genius

[FrankieFucking4Finge]

...dunno what so many people have against it.. its a very nice title in its own way...

[lelilelu]

I think he was just exceptionnaly creative in this sense that he's made things different from his own world..!

[dlanodrelda]

Used for The Barbarian from 1st ELP album.

Bela cooks.

[indigoba]

Looks like count dracula, plays like (better than) count basie.

Bartok was truly a visionary

[FromOceans2112]

Thanks for posting this.

[Squ1rrelkilla]

thanks for posting

[marcocresci]

This is Bartok

[scottihoe]

I played this song for Marching Band actually. It was amazing.