Spartiti Bela Bartók per ensemble d'archi

Il più lungo e allo stesso tempo il più complesso dei sei quartetti per archi di Bartók fu composto nell'estate del 1934 come commissione ben finanziata per la rinomata Elisabeth Sprague Coolidge Foun...

Bartók iniziò a lavorare al suo Sesto Quartetto per archi nell'estate del 1939, ospite di Paul Sacher nell'idilliaco villaggio montano svizzero di Saanen, prima che l'imminente scoppio della guerra lo...

Hardbound

HPS 27

To make myself clear: This is not programme music, it does not require an explanation attached to it; it speaks for itself. What it wishes to say it does by means of pure music. But it does say someth...

The fourth string quartet embodies that moment in Bartók's art in which the composer, surpassing the concentrated and retrospective third quartet, reaches a summit for the first time and casts his gaz...

Bartok's String Quartet No. 5 was commissioned by the formidable Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge, leading patron of chamber music in the U. S. in the first half of the 20th century. Bartok is alleged to ha...