C/D: Bela Bartok

I've had a rocky ride getting into twentieth century music; other classics I've never got to grips with are Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire, Berg's Wozzek . . . on the other hand, I can't get enough Berio, Messaien, Takemitsu. If you don't like Bartok's quartets, don't force yourself; it may be to do with sensibility.

I love music, which is why I'm wishing Bela Bartok a happy birthday

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E3IT0TVWEAAfnxU?format=jpg&name=medium

this is a sensational recording. I doubt there will be a better one than this.

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this is a sensational recording. I doubt there will be a better one than this.

It's a good 'un but Kocsis/Fischer with the Budapest Festival Orchestra takes the cake for me. Simultaneously more modernist and more Hungarian.

thanks for the recc, pom.

but I'd still beg to differ with merely "a good 'un" it's much better than that!

Fair, fair, I'm just a huge Zoltán Kocsis stan and his Bartók matches my layman's understanding of his music, so I tend to get carried away sometimes. I'm also liable to say things like: the Takács Quartet's 1996 recording of the string quartets is second to none and you should accept no substitute! Anyway, I'll revisit the Anda/Fricsay – it's been too long.

Fair, fair, I'm just a huge Zoltán Kocsis stan and his Bartók matches my layman's understanding of his music, so I tend to get carried away sometimes. I'm also liable to say things like: the Takács Quartet's 1996 recording of the string quartets is second to none and you should accept no substitute! Anyway, I'll revisit the Anda/Fricsay – it's been too long.

TS: Cats named after Bela Bartok vs cats named after Blixa Bargeld (1)(2)

The fanous white collar criminal Martha Stewart also had a cat named after Bela Bartok

https://www.themarthablog.com/2016/01/farewell-to-bartok-the-cat.html