Bartók, Béla: Dance Suite (1923) 17'
Transcription by Bartok for piano solo

Repertoire Note  
In its original orchestral version this was Bartók’s runaway success of the mid-1920s, being performed in sixty cities in 1925-26 alone. Although the various movements have different national folk types (and Bartók did originally intend an extra, Slovak movement, as well), his recurring interlude theme provides an easy continuity that listeners rarely find in his other works of this period.

Note by Malcolm Gillies