Béla Bartók at the piano Sonatina

Béla Bartók at the piano Sonatina

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[urns100]

sorry man, but this its other world, its not your pop music 4/4

[MATTDUNCAN1]

@marcparella ..is this not bartok himself at the piano..???.surely he is entitled to do whatever he desires with his own composition

[MaestroTJS]

Those criticizing this interpretation (how ridiculous, really) should realize the folk elements in Bartok's music mean that he's playing it with that sound in mind. Have any of you heard eastern European folk music? They don't play with metronomes in mind, especially when it's just one person playing! Furthermore, the rhythms they use sometimes have a stuttering sound to them, slightly off-beat.

But then, most people play minuets incorrectly, so why would they understand this?

[sdegrace]

Well I discover the pianist Bartok so in my taste.

[lagaremer]

This is a very difficult piece. Hard to learn, technically and musically challenging. My daughter, who just turned 10 is assigned to learn this sonatina. I can see this is going to be hard for someone who is used to Beethoven's Sonatinas.

[TehSorso]

@123xPerfection i hate these words ---> *epic goddamn fail*

[umbrellashotgunman]

@123xPerfection *facepalm* It's being played by the same guy who wrote the damn piece. You have to understand that Bartok learned his craft from 19th-century Romantic pianists, whom as a rule generally took A LOT more liberties with the music (not just tempo and dynamics, but even the notes) than modern pianists do today.

[123xPerfection]

I don't know who is playing, but I know that is not the good way to play this ....

It's too bad. The right way is better

[xNaN3x]

i played last piece here when i was younger, but he plays it so much better, as you would expect ahaaa.

[blendingbone]

He certainly had a sense of humour. And what a Beethovian coda at the end (aside from it's shortness)!

[jacartrette462]

@marcparella I hate pretentious people who think they know everything. Music can be interpreted in many different ways otherwise it would be very boring. I'm sure you're one of those people who learn to be a copy cat player rather than a musical player.

[umbrellashotgunman]

@marcparella Actually, most pre-modern (and even many early modern) pianist-composers apparently rarely followed their own markings; Rachmaninoff is far more liberal in recordings with his tempo than what the markings on his music would suggest, and even Mozart was known to use a decent amount of rubato on pieces that nowadays tend to be played with a relatively steady tempo. Bartok was one of the last survivors of a tradition that EXPECTED pianists to (tastefully) change the music they played.