Top 5 Favorite Bartók Works

Started by Mirror Image, May 24, 2015, 08:51:38 PM

Previous topic - Next topic

0 Members and 2 Guests are viewing this topic.

Print
Go Down Pages 1 2 3 4
User actions

kyjo

#40
October 24, 2017, 09:16:33 AM
Piano Concerto no. 3
Divertimento for strings
Piano Quintet (I'm serious, it's that good)
String Quartet no. 6
Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion
"Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music" - Sergei Rachmaninoff

Symphonic Addict

#41
July 09, 2024, 04:52:45 PM
Piano Concerto No. 2
String Quartet No. 5
Bluebeard's Castle
The Miraculous Mandarin
Piano Quartet (an early, yet very solid piece)
Part of the tragedy of the Palestinians is that they have essentially no international support for a good reason: they've no wealth, they've no power, so they've no rights.

Noam Chomsky

San Antone

#42
July 09, 2024, 05:00:14 PM
Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion
String Quartet No. 3
Sonata for Violin & Piano No. 2
Contrasts
Romanian Folk Dances

Daverz

#43
July 09, 2024, 07:20:16 PM
Music for Strings, Percussion & Celesta
Piano Concerto No. 3
Violin Concerto
Piano Concerto No. 2
Concerto for Orchestra

JBS

#44
July 09, 2024, 07:41:34 PM
A kékszakállú herceg vára
Piano Concerto 2
MSPC
Sonata for 2 Pianos and Percussion
Viola Concerto

Hollywood Beach Broadwalk

atardecer

#45
July 09, 2024, 10:08:46 PM
Piano Concerto No. 2
Piano Concerto No. 1
Bluebeard's Castle
Music for Strings, Percussion & Celesta
Divertimento for strings
"Leave that which is not, but appears to be. Seek that which is, but is not apparent." - Rumi

"Outwardly limited, boundless inwardly." - Goethe

"The art of being a slave is to rule one's master." - Diogenes

Lisztianwagner

#46
July 10, 2024, 10:40:07 AM
Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta
Bluebeard's Castle
The Miraculous Mandarin
Piano Concerto No.2
String Quartet No.4
"You cannot expect the Form before the Idea, for they will come into being together." - Arnold Schönberg

Le Buisson Ardent

#47
July 11, 2024, 07:46:04 AM
I suppose I should update my list --- in no particular order:

Bluebeard's Castle
Piano Concerto No. 2
String Quartet No. 4
Out of Doors
Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion

kyjo

#48
July 15, 2024, 01:30:39 PM
Quote from: Symphonic Addict on July 09, 2024, 04:52:45 PMPiano Concerto No. 2
String Quartet No. 5
Bluebeard's Castle
The Miraculous Mandarin
Piano Quartet (an early, yet very solid piece)

You like his Piano Quartet more than his Piano Quintet? The Quartet is "solid", like you say, but the Quintet is more than that - an early masterpiece full of fire and energy. Its finale is one of the most rousing movements of chamber music that I know!
"Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music" - Sergei Rachmaninoff

kyjo

#49
July 15, 2024, 01:36:32 PM
Duke Bluebeard's Castle
The Miraculous Mandarin
Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta
Piano Concerto No. 3
Piano Quintet

His string quartets still remain pieces I admire rather than love or even like - I find them his most "difficult" works by some distance. Maybe someday that'll change... ::)
"Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music" - Sergei Rachmaninoff

Symphonic Addict

#50
July 15, 2024, 02:35:56 PM
Quote from: kyjo on July 15, 2024, 01:30:39 PMYou like his Piano Quartet more than his Piano Quintet? The Quartet is "solid", like you say, but the Quintet is more than that - an early masterpiece full of fire and energy. Its finale is one of the most rousing movements of chamber music that I know!

Yes, I do, I see nothing wrong with that, and it is solid and masterful too IMO. It has to do with the fact that it impressed me very much the last time I heard it, so I decided to put it. Also, that was a list at the moment, it is subject to changes whenever a work strikes me like better or more interesting.
Part of the tragedy of the Palestinians is that they have essentially no international support for a good reason: they've no wealth, they've no power, so they've no rights.

Noam Chomsky

atardecer

#51
July 15, 2024, 11:27:34 PM
Quote from: kyjo on July 15, 2024, 01:36:32 PMHis string quartets still remain pieces I admire rather than love or even like - I find them his most "difficult" works by some distance. Maybe someday that'll change... ::)

None of his string quartets made my top 5 either, although I do like them and consider them among the best composed in the 20th century. For me as great as they are I enjoy a number of his other pieces more, but this is largely reflective of my tastes in instrumentation. I tend to prefer the sound of orchestral pieces, or works with keyboard whether solo or chamber. The over-all timbre of a string quartet I find for some reason less-appealing. I know they have their strengths but it is not a medium I would personally use to compose. This aside there are a number of string quartets I like a lot. If I was to do a top ten Bartók list I would include the 6th quartet.
"Leave that which is not, but appears to be. Seek that which is, but is not apparent." - Rumi

"Outwardly limited, boundless inwardly." - Goethe

"The art of being a slave is to rule one's master." - Diogenes

DavidW

#52
July 16, 2024, 04:01:58 AM
Quote from: kyjo on July 15, 2024, 01:36:32 PMHis string quartets still remain pieces I admire rather than love or even like - I find them his most "difficult" works by some distance. Maybe someday that'll change... ::)

I think his violin sonatas are more challenging than his string quartets.  I like and listen to Bartok's string quartets more than anything else he wrote.

Jo498

#53
July 16, 2024, 04:16:06 AM
A "problem" of the quartets is that all are fairly tough, with the most accessible ones are 4-6, or maybe 2. 3 is the toughest, and 1 is still between the Straussian-Brahmsian early Bartok (as in the 1st movement probably inspired by Beethovens op.131) and the "real Bartok" (as in the Hungarian finale).
Tout le malheur des hommes vient d'une seule chose, qui est de ne savoir pas demeurer en repos, dans une chambre.
- Blaise Pascal

kyjo

#54
July 16, 2024, 10:57:59 AM
Quote from: Jo498 on July 16, 2024, 04:16:06 AMA "problem" of the quartets is that all are fairly tough, with the most accessible ones are 4-6, or maybe 2. 3 is the toughest, and 1 is still between the Straussian-Brahmsian early Bartok (as in the 1st movement probably inspired by Beethovens op.131) and the "real Bartok" (as in the Hungarian finale).

Oddly enough, I recall liking the 3rd the best out of the cycle upon recent listening, if not by a large margin (maybe because it's the shortest? ;)). The 1st struck me as a surprisingly depressing and unappealing (to me) work.
"Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music" - Sergei Rachmaninoff

Mandryka

#55
July 16, 2024, 02:01:09 PM
Quartet 3
Quartet 4
Quartet 5
Quartet 6
Op 18 Etudes
Wovon man nicht sprechen kann, darüber muss man schweigen

Luke

#56
July 16, 2024, 02:32:58 PM
Hmm I've tried and deleted too many times: can't do this one.

Daverz

#57
July 16, 2024, 04:47:00 PM
Quote from: Luke on July 16, 2024, 02:32:58 PMHmm I've tried and deleted too many times: can't do this one.

10 is easy; 5 is tough.  I realized I had to leave off Bluebeard's Castle. 

KevinP

#58
July 17, 2024, 03:52:39 AM
Concerto for Orchestra
Music for Strings, Percussion, Celeste
Bluebeard
Cantata Profana
Mandarin

Luke

#59
July 17, 2024, 07:17:52 AM
Quote from: Daverz on July 16, 2024, 04:47:00 PM10 is easy; 5 is tough.  I realized I had to leave off Bluebeard's Castle. 

Exactly - same here.

I'll say this much, though - the second and third quartets are on all my various lists.
Print
Go Up Pages 1 2 3 4
User actions