Word: bartok
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fourth movement, Presto e scherzando presented a direct contrast--with its expulsions of happiness in the form of harmonic and melodic unpredictability--there was, nonetheless, room for moments of sensitive contemplation that the Guarneri String Quartet used in making the piece as cerebral as melodic. Their second piece, Bela Bartok's String Quartet No. 6, presented (as those familiar with Bartok can imagine) a very different effect. Bartok regarded the string quartet as "a laboratory of advancing musical ideas." In this spirit of experimentation, Bartok tested different principles of tonality and deviated from a traditional harmonic structure. The Guarneri String...
...very clear that villains must be repulsively ugly). Moreover, he seems to have absolutely no motivation for his curses. He constantly howls "The Romanovs must be destroyed!" but there seems to be no cause for his interference. Every time he jumps on the scene with his side-kick bat Bartok (Iago with a Southern accent), the movie severely lags. Why should kids fear someone who's more pitiful than scary...
Daniele Gatti is currently finishing his first tour of the United States, which will culminate in a performance at the John F. Kennedy Center on Nov. 2. Aside from Schubert and Mahler, the Royal Philharmonic repertoire includes Schumann's Piano Concerto, Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra and Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 8, as well as Respighi's Fountains of Rome, a piece just recorded in the first installment of Gatti's contract with BMG's Conifer Classics label...
...play it, not only to make big bucks but also because they like it. When Jean-Yves Thibaudet, famous for his interpretations of Ravel and Rachmaninoff, records an album of piano solos by jazz great Bill Evans, or the Kronos Quartet programs Jimi Hendrix side by side with Bela Bartok, you know something is happening...
...played a Telemann sonata and some Bartok and the audience was pretty enthusiastic; they liked it," Chen says...