Improvisations on Hungarian Peasant Songs
op. 20 BB83 (1920)Eight pieces, for piano solo
Dauer: 13'
Verlag:
Boosey & Hawkes
Vertriebsgebiet
Dieses Werk ist erhältlich bei Boosey & Hawkes
for the world.
Verfügbarkeit
World Premiere
27/02/1921
Budapest
Béla Bartók, piano
Hintergrund
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