Improvisations on Hungarian Peasant Songs
(1920) 20 BB83Eight pieces, for piano solo
Duration: 13'
Territory
This work is available from Boosey & Hawkes
for the world.
World Premiere
27/02/1921
Budapest
Béla Bartók, piano
Repertoire Note
Perhaps Bartók’s most radical setting of folksongs, indeed forming an original composition in its own right. Its virtuosic nature almost rivals the Three Studies, with which Bartók’s op.20 can well be paired, provided some recovery time is left afterwards.
Note by Malcolm Gillies
