Scoring
2(II=picc).2(II=corA).2(II=bcl).2-4.2.3.1-timp.perc(2):xyl/cyms/tam-t/
tgl/BD/SD-strings
Territory
This work is available from Boosey & Hawkes
for the world.
World Premiere
08/02/1946
Philadelphia
Gyorgy Sandor, piano / Philadelphia Orchestra / Eugene Ormandy
Repertoire Note
This most lucid, technically easiest and most popular of Bartók's three piano concertos was written as a birthday gift for his wife, Ditta. Bartók lived to complete all but the orchestration of its last few bars, which was undertaken by Tibor Serly.
Note by Malcolm Gillies
