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Bela Bartok, Gyorgy Sandor
Bela Bartok: Mikrokosmos
Genre: Classical

Track Listings (88) - Disc #1
1. Mikrokosmos: Volume 1 - 1-6. Six Unison Melodies
2. Mikrokosmos: Volume 1 - 7. Dotted Notes
3. Mikrokosmos: Volume 1 - 8. Repetition (1)
4. Mikrokosmos: Volume 1 - 9. Syncopation (1)
5. Mikrokosmos: Volume 1 - 10. With Alternate Hands
6. Mikrokosmos: Volume 1 - 11. Parallel Motion
7. Mikrokosmos: Volume 1 - 12. Reflection
8. Mikrokosmos: Volume 1 - 13. Change of Position
9. Mikrokosmos: Volume 1 - 14. Question and Answer
10. Mikrokosmos: Volume 1 - 15. Village Song
11. Mikrokosmos: Volume 1 - 16. Parallel Motion with Change of Position
12. Mikrokosmos: Volume 1 - 17. Contrary Motion (1)
13. Mikrokosmos: Volume 1 - 18-21. Four Unison Melodies
14. Mikrokosmos: Volume 1 - 22. Imitation and Counterpoint
15. Mikrokosmos: Volume 1 - 23. Imitation and Inversion
16. Mikrokosmos: Volume 1 - 24. Pastorale
17. Mikrokosmos: Volume 1 - 25. Imitation and Inversion (2)
18. Mikrokosmos: Volume 1 - 26. Repetition (2)
19. Mikrokosmos: Volume 1 - 27. Syncopation (2)
20. Mikrokosmos: Volume 1 - 28. Canon at the Octave
21. Mikrokosmos: Volume 1 - 29. Imitation Reflected
22. Mikrokosmos: Volume 1 - 30. Canon at the Lower Fifth
23. Mikrokosmos: Volume 1 - 31. Dance in Canon Form
24. Mikrokosmos: Volume 1 - 32. In Dorian Mode
25. Mikrokosmos: Volume 1 - 33. Slow Dance
26. Mikrokosmos: Volume 1 - 34. In Phrygian Mode
27. Mikrokosmos: Volume 1 - 35. Chorale
28. Mikrokosmos: Volume 1 - 36. Free Canon
29. Mikrokosmos: Volume 2 - 37. In Lydian Mode
30. Mikrokosmos: Volume 2 - 38. Staccato and Legato (1)
31. Mikrokosmos: Volume 2 - 39. Staccato and Legato (canon)
32. Mikrokosmos: Volume 2 - 40. In Yugoslav Style
33. Mikrokosmos: Volume 2 - 41. Melody with Accompaniment
34. Mikrokosmos: Volume 2 - 42. Accompaniment in Broken Triads
35. Mikrokosmos: Volume 2 - 43. In Hungarian Style
36. Mikrokosmos: Volume 2 - 44. Contrary Motion (2)
37. Mikrokosmos: Volume 2 - 45. Meditation
38. Mikrokosmos: Volume 2 - 46. Increasing-Diminishing
39. Mikrokosmos: Volume 2 - 47. Country Fair
40. Mikrokosmos: Volume 2 - 48. In Mixolydian Mode
41. Mikrokosmos: Volume 2 - 49. Crescendo-Diminuendo
42. Mikrokosmos: Volume 2 - 50. Minuetto
43. Mikrokosmos: Volume 2 - 51. Waves
44. Mikrokosmos: Volume 2 - 52. Unison Divided
45. Mikrokosmos: Volume 2 - 53. In Transylvanian Style
46. Mikrokosmos: Volume 2 - 54. Chromatics
47. Mikrokosmos: Volume 2 - 55. Triplets in Lydian Mode
48. Mikrokosmos: Volume 2 - 56. Melody in Tenths
49. Mikrokosmos: Volume 2 - 57. Accents
50. Mikrokosmos: Volume 2 - 58. In Oriental Style
51. Mikrokosmos: Volume 2 - 59. Major and Minor
52. Mikrokosmos: Volume 2 - 60. Canon with Sustained Notes
53. Mikrokosmos: Volume 2 - 61. Pentatonic Melody
54. Mikrokosmos: Volume 2 - 62. Minor Sixths in Parallel Motion
55. Mikrokosmos: Volume 2 - 63. Buzzing
56. Mikrokosmos: Volume 2 - 64. Line Against Point (a & b)
57. Mikrokosmos: Volume 2 - 65. Dialogue
58. Mikrokosmos: Volume 2 - 66. Melody Divided
59. Mikrokosmos: Volume 3 - 67. Thirds Against a Single Voice
60. Mikrokosmos: Volume 3 - 68. Hungarian Dance
61. Mikrokosmos: Volume 3 - 69. Study in Chords
62. Mikrokosmos: Volume 3 - 70. Melody against Double Notes
63. Mikrokosmos: Volume 3 - 71. Thirds
64. Mikrokosmos: Volume 3 - 72. Dragon's Dance
65. Mikrokosmos: Volume 3 - 73. Sixths and Triads
66. Mikrokosmos: Volume 3 - 74. Hungarian Matchmaking Song (a & b)
67. Mikrokosmos: Volume 3 - 75. Triplets
68. Mikrokosmos: Volume 3 - 76. In Three Parts
69. Mikrokosmos: Volume 3 - 77. Little Study
70. Mikrokosmos: Volume 3 - 78. Five-Tone Scale
71. Mikrokosmos: Volume 3 - 79. Hommage a J.S.B.
72. Mikrokosmos: Volume 3 - 80. Hommage a R. Sch.
73. Mikrokosmos: Volume 3 - 81. Wandering
74. Mikrokosmos: Volume 3 - 82. Scherzo
75. Mikrokosmos: Volume 3 - 83. Melody with Interruptions
76. Mikrokosmos: Volume 3 - 84. Merriment
77. Mikrokosmos: Volume 3 - 85. Broken Chords
78. Mikrokosmos: Volume 3 - 86. Two Major Pentachords
79. Mikrokosmos: Volume 3 - 87. Variations
80. Mikrokosmos: Volume 3 - 88. Duet for Pipes
81. Mikrokosmos: Volume 3 - 89. In Four Parts (1)
82. Mikrokosmos: Volume 3 - 90. In Russian Style
83. Mikrokosmos: Volume 3 - 91. Chromatic Invention (2)
84. Mikrokosmos: Volume 3 - 92. Chromatic Invention (2)
85. Mikrokosmos: Volume 3 - 93. In Four Parts (2)
86. Mikrokosmos: Volume 3 - 94. Once Upon a Time...
87. Mikrokosmos: Volume 3 - 95. Fox Song (a & b)
88. Mikrokosmos: Volume 3 - 96. Jolts
Track Listings (57) - Disc #2
1. Mikrokosmos: Volume 4 - 97. Notturno
2. Mikrokosmos: Volume 4 - 98. Thumbs Under
3. Mikrokosmos: Volume 4 - 99. Hands Crossing
4. Mikrokosmos: Volume 4 - 100. In Folk Song Style
5. Mikrokosmos: Volume 4 - 101. Diminished Fifth
6. Mikrokosmos: Volume 4 - 102. Harmonics
7. Mikrokosmos: Volume 4 - 103. Minor and Major
8. Mikrokosmos: Volume 4 - 104. Wandering through the Keys (a & b)
9. Mikrokosmos: Volume 4 - 105. Game (with two five-tone scales)
10. Mikrokosmos: Volume 4 - 106. Children's Song
11. Mikrokosmos: Volume 4 - 107. Melody in the Mist
12. Mikrokosmos: Volume 4 - 108. Wrestling
13. Mikrokosmos: Volume 4 - 109. From the Island of Bali
14. Mikrokosmos: Volume 4 - 110. And the Sounds Clash and Clang
15. Mikrokosmos: Volume 4 - 111. Intermezzo
16. Mikrokosmos: Volume 4 - 112. Variations on a Folk Tune
17. Mikrokosmos: Volume 4 - 113. Bulgarian Rhythm (1)
18. Mikrokosmos: Volume 4 - 114. Theme and Inversion
19. Mikrokosmos: Volume 4 - 115. Bulgarian Rhythm (2)
20. Mikrokosmos: Volume 4 - 116. Song
21. Mikrokosmos: Volume 4 - 117. Bouree
22. Mikrokosmos: Volume 4 - 118. Triplets in 9 8 Time
23. Mikrokosmos: Volume 4 - 119. Triplets in 3 4 Time
24. Mikrokosmos: Volume 4 - 120. Triads
25. Mikrokosmos: Volume 4 - 121. Two-part Study
26. Mikrokosmos: Volume 5 - 122. Chords Together in Opposition
27. Mikrokosmos: Volume 5 - 123. Staccato and Legato (2) (a & b)
28. Mikrokosmos: Volume 5 - 124. Staccato
29. Mikrokosmos: Volume 5 - 125. Boating
30. Mikrokosmos: Volume 5 - 126. Change of Time
31. Mikrokosmos: Volume 5 - 127. New Hungarian Folk Song
32. Mikrokosmos: Volume 5 - 128. Stamping Dance
33. Mikrokosmos: Volume 5 - 129. Alternating Thirds
34. Mikrokosmos: Volume 5 - 130. Village Joke
35. Mikrokosmos: Volume 5 - 131. Fourths
36. Mikrokosmos: Volume 5 - 132. Major Seconds Broken and Together
37. Mikrokosmos: Volume 5 - 133. Syncopation (3)
38. Mikrokosmos: Volume 5 - 134. Studies in Double Notes (a, b & c)
39. Mikrokosmos: Volume 5 - 135. Perpetual Motion
40. Mikrokosmos: Volume 5 - 136. Whole-tone Scales
41. Mikrokosmos: Volume 5 - 137. Unison
42. Mikrokosmos: Volume 5 - 138. Bagpipe Music
43. Mikrokosmos: Volume 5 - 139. Jack-in-the-Box
44. Mikrokosmos: Volume 6 - 140. Free Variations
45. Mikrokosmos: Volume 6 - 141. Subject and Reflection
46. Mikrokosmos: Volume 6 - 142. From the Diary of a Fly
47. Mikrokosmos: Volume 6 - 143. Divided Arpeggios
48. Mikrokosmos: Volume 6 - 144. Minor Seconds, Major Sevenths
49. Mikrokosmos: Volume 6 - 145. Chromatic Invention (3) (a &b)
50. Mikrokosmos: Volume 6 - 146. Ostinato
51. Mikrokosmos: Volume 6 - 147. March
52. Mikrokosmos: Volume 6 - 148. Six Dances in Bulgarian Rhythm (1)
53. Mikrokosmos: Volume 6 - 149. Six Dances in Bulgarian Rhythm (2)
54. Mikrokosmos: Volume 6 - 150. Six Dances in Bulgarian Rhythm (3)
55. Mikrokosmos: Volume 6 - 151. Six Dances in Bulgarian Rhythm (4)
56. Mikrokosmos: Volume 6 - 152. Six Dances in Bulgarian Rhythm (5)
57. Mikrokosmos: Volume 6 - 153. Six Dance in Bulgarian Rhythm (6)

CD Details

All Artists: Bela Bartok, Gyorgy Sandor
Title: Bela Bartok: Mikrokosmos
Members Wishing: 1
Total Copies: 0
Label: Sony
Original Release Date: 1/1/1993
Re-Release Date: 2/9/1993
Genre: Classical
Styles: Forms & Genres, Improvisation
Number of Discs: 2
SwapaCD Credits: 2
UPC: 074645252827

Synopsis

Amazon.com essential recording

Bartók's Mikrokosmos ("Little World") essentially comprises 153 teaching pieces, divided into six books of progressive difficulty. These works make ideal vehicles for budding piano students who are ready to face the myriad challenges of 20th-century keyboard music. They also reveal the kernels of the Hungarian composer's uncompromising compositional style. György Sándor was a piano pupil of Bartók's, and his fluid, perceptive playing is unfailingly idiomatic, from the simple, canon-like exercises at the start to the demanding Six Dances in Bulgarian Rhythm that crown the cycle. The mono engineering is thin but acceptable. Suffice it to say that the composer would have been proud of what his pupil achieves here. --Jed Distler

CD Reviews

The slender difference that makes the great difference!

Hiram Gomez Pardo | Valencia, Venezuela | 09/28/2006

(5 out of 5 stars)

"At the actual moments it's hard to find out that unusual and missed way of play Bartok with these well known dissonant inflections, for all of us who had the immense privilege to watch this legendary pianist twice in Caracas in the seventies and eighties. To this reviewer, it will be absolutely impossible to forget his egregious presence and powering [...], steeled phrasing hovered by that special reverberation and acidic lyricism at the moment to play Out of doors that cold night of December 9, 1982.

Without another intention in mind, but intending to illustrate and motive the newcomer listener, I would say that in just few counted occasions (Richter and Prokoviev, Ravel and Cortot) there has been such chemical rapport between composer and performer.

At least in my case, I have not heard about any other pianist able to sound so sarcastic, reverberating and genuinely Hungarian as Gyorgy Sandor did it.

So I really hope you to keep in mind all these previous considerations at the moment to make this wise choice. Go for this record without any shadow of doubt.

This album is now part of the mythic legend of the treasures for keyboard.

No other pianist will sound so astonishingly as Sandor does.

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