[ Naxos / CD ]
Release Date: Wednesday 26 October 2011
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The early works presented here remind us that Bartók was also an influential concert pianist and thoughtful teacher. The expansiveness and exuberant sensuality of this youthful music comes as a surprise to anyone who is familiar only with the calculatedly terse works from later in Bartók's life.
4 Piano Pieces, BB 27, Sz. 22
Marche funèbre from Kossuth, BB 31
Petits morceaux, BB 38, Sz. 29
Two Elegies, BB 49
The First Term at the Piano, BB 66, Sz. 53