Word: bartok
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Budapest put up with him? Director Toth, who had long fought Hungary's indifference to its own composers, Bartok and Kodaly, was willing to fight for Klemperer too. Budapest's orchestras were far inferior to those of Vienna or Paris, and only a top conductor would bring them up again. If Budapest could only bear with Otto Klemperer, there was a good chance that it might get first-class music at last-the kind of music Berlin had heard, 15 years...
Last week, Edinburgh's second annual festival ended. For three weeks thousands of music lovers had heard the greatest of music, from Bach to Bartok, played by such orchestras as Amsterdam's superb, 65-year-old Concertgebouw and Rome's famed Augusteo. They had heard the Mozart piano concertos, performed unforgettably by their finest living interpreter-Pianist Artur Schnabel. They had seen Mozart's operatic masterpieces, Don Giovanni and Cosi fan Tutti, given with polish by a company that is fast becoming the best in the business-Britain's Glyndebourne. They had heard superlative choral...
...professors who, snorts Kodály, "couldn't even speak Hungarian." They had tramped the hills recording more than 6,000 samples of folk music on a primitive Edison machine-and each used this folk music as a base, though what each did with the music was different. Bartok loved stubborn dissonances and wild rhythms; Kodaly preferred to be lyrical and simple. Says Kodaly: "Bartok was more eager to find new-effects and possibilities. I was content with less. I am still less curious than Bartok...
Bartó:k: Violin Sonata No. 2-Roumanian Dances (Tossy Spivakovsky, violin; Artur Balsam, piano; Concert Hall Society, 6 sides). Bartok had just made his final break with musical orthodoxy when he wrote this sonata (1922). Violinist Spivakovsky is the man whose brilliant playing recently set San Francisco talking about Bartok's music (TIME, Jan. 26). Recording (on Vinylite): excellent...
...wanted them to hear again a Bartók composition they had frowned on three years ago: a powerful sonata for unaccompanied violin which Bartók had written for Yehudi. Yehudi was going to play it again this week, and this time wanted the critics to be prepared. Bartok, hearing Yehudi play one of his compositions two years before he died, told him: "I thought works were only played that way long after the composers were dead...