Bartók plays 10 Easy Pieces/15 Hungarian Peasant Songs

[kontrapunkti]

Wow

[szkeith1]

a beautiful piece of archive.  Beautiful group. Thanks for archiving this.

[mausero1]

Bartók, Kodály and members of the Waldbauer-Kerpely Quartet (from left to right: Jenő Kerpely, Imre Waldbauer, Antal Molnár, János Temesváry), 1910 (photo: Aladár Székely)

[simondanser]

The guy on the foreground right hand side (also holding a score) must surely be Zoltan Kodaly.

[szkeith1]

Correction: I think I'm right about Imre (father of my teacher Ivan, at Brown). But it might be the Vegh or the Waldbauer-Kermeley? 4-tet. I think there are some stories about how they merged into the Hungarian 4-tet, tho. Not sure. Maybe one can google this.

[szkeith1]

The second figure must be Bartok and the third--looks exactly like my piano teacher at Brown, so it must be his father, Imre Waldbauer, the first violinist of the Hungarian Quartet which played Bartok's music. However, this music is entirely piano.

[kunigunda11]

@szkeith1 actually the third from left is Bartok

[MrBassflute]

@kunigunda11 Second from left...

[Luzsitamas]

@MrBassflute: Sitting left: Béla Bartók. Sitting right is Zoltán Kodály. Standing around: The Waldbauer StringQuartett: Kerpély, Waldbauer, Molnár, Temesvári. The picture was made (I think) 1910. Maybe 1911.

[jakiner]

yes lol they look like they're writing a new declaration of independence or something! i appreciate how his playing isn't so ostentatious like some other classical composers.  it shows that you don't have to play a thousand notes a minute to create something worth listening to.

[fredericfranc]

The guys in the photograph have this neat, sort on snotty attitude, or is it just me? He has a beautiful tone and fluid rhythm in his playing, very like nonexistent nowadays. The idea of "using peasant music as a basis for art music" was already 100 years old by the time Bartok hit that stuff, not to try to detract from the guy...

[daniel15671]

It's difficult to imagine now how revolutionary Bartok's music was considered when it first came out. He was really ridiculed for using peasant music as a basis for art music. His work doesn't seem revolutionary now, just beautiful.

[Gmapchannel]

Can someone identify the people in the photograph? Curious...

[LecsoDrom]

I've seen this image before and it was simply titled Bartók and Kodály with a quartet. Bartók is seated to the left and Kodály (with beard) to the right.

[maldoror26]

Thanks!

M.

[caijpp]

really wonderful...Thank you

[totaldynamix]

Many thanks.Bartok's playing his composition is a pleasure.

[gromoglas77]

What marvellous pieces! Thanks for sharing!

[chad410]

so beautiful this was an exam piece a few years ago here. but this is how it should be played.

[pianopera]

The first piece (An evening at the village) is so beautiful, and who can play it more convincing than the composer himself...

[ArturoAlejandroS]

Thanks for upload this nice music.Bartok is a great composer.

[spitzenleiter]

Thanks for sharing a great piece !!

I'm deeply impressed by your selection.