Bartók, Béla (1881–1945)

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112	March 1977 Music/Review Recommended recordings SEE ALSO: Bartók, Béla; Franck, César; Barenboim, Daniel; Busoni, Ferruccio; Foster: Songs by Stephen Foster, Volume II (Sound recording); Franck: Symphony in D minor (Sound recording); Stravinsky, Igor; Messiaen, Olivier; Jacobs, Paul; Performances; Piano etudes by Bartók, Busoni, Messiaen, Stravinsky (Sound recording); Wagner, Richard; Foster, Stephen Collins; Wagner: Lohengrin (Sound recording); Sawallisch, Wolfgang PDF IMAGES
102	August 1970 Music in the round/Review Serving the moderns By Discus SEE ALSO: Weissenberg, Alexis; Atlas eclipticalis (Book); Bartók, Béla; Cartridge music (Book); Davis, Colin; Barenboim, Daniel; Schnabel, Dieter; Shostakovich, Dmitriæi Dmitrievich; Ormandy, Eugene; Glossolalia (Book); Stravinsky, Igor; Cage, John; Stockhausen, Karlheinz; Mixtur (Book); Subotnick, Morton; New Philharmonia Orchestra; Philadelphia Orchestra; Boulez, Pierre; Bishop, Stephen; Telemusic (Book); Krause, Tom; Touch (Book); Winter music: 1957 (Book) PDF IMAGES
113-114	June 1967 Music in the round/Review Eccentrics or prophets? By Discus SEE ALSO: Cluytens, André; Bartók, Béla; Bartók: Piano concertos nos. 1 and 3 (Sound recording); Chicago Symphony; Cleveland Orchestra; Poulenc, Francis; Graffman, Gary; Szell, George; Couraud, Marcel; Messiaen: Trois petites liturgies de la présence divine (Sound recording); Messiaen, Olivier; Performances; Serkin, Peter; Poulenc: Les mamelles de Tirésias (Sound recording); Prokofieff: Piano concertos nos. 1 and 3 (Sound recording); Ozawa, Seiji; Prokofieff, Sergey PDF IMAGES
PAGE MISSING 142-144	September 1965 Music in the round/Review Summer nights with music By Discus SEE ALSO: Bartók, Béla; Beethoven: Kreutzer sonata. Debussy: Sonata. Bartók: Second sonata; First rhapsody (Sound recording); Nilsson, Birgit; Career as recording director; Watson, Claire; Debussy, Claude; Fischer-Dieskau, Dietrich; Frick, Gottlob; Neidlinger, Gustav; Culshaw, John; Szigeti, Joseph; Beethoven, Ludwig van; Performances; Wagner, Richard; Solti, Georg, Sir; Vienna Philharmonic; Horowitz, Vladimir; Wagner: Götterdämmerung (Sound recording); Windgassen, Wolfgang PDF IMAGES
120-122	June 1965 Music in the round/Review Bartok and Bloch: Isolated in our time By Discus SEE ALSO: Bartók, Béla; Bloch, Ernest; Ernst Bloch: Violin concerto (Sound recording); Juilliard String Quartet; Kletzki, Paul; Peformances; Six quartets (Sound recording); Menuhin, Yehudi PDF IMAGES
115-116	September 1964 Music in the round/Review The big ones By Discus SEE ALSO: Also sprach Zarathustra (Sound recording); Bartók, Béla; Bartók: Cantata profana; Miraculous Mandarin (Sound recording); Boston Symphony; Ives, Charles; Leinsdorf, Erich; Ormandy, Eugene; Lehel, György; Ives: Quartet #1; Quartet #2 (Sound recording); Ferencsik, Janos; Kohon Quartet; Philadelphia Orchestra; Prokofiev: Fifth symphony (Sound recording); Prokofiev: Symphony-concerto for cello and orchestra (Sound recording); Strauss, Richard; Prokofieff, Sergey PDF IMAGES
100-101	August 1963 Music in the round/Review Siegfried, Beatrice and Benedict, Bluebeard By Discus SEE ALSO: Dorati, Antal; Cantelo, April; Bartók, Béla; Beatrice and Benedict (Sound recording); Nilsson, Birgit; Bluebeard's castle (Book); Davis, Colin; Stolze, Gerhard; Neidlinger, Gustav; Hotter, Hans; Berlioz, Hector; Sutherland, Joan; Cameron, John; Mitchinson, John; Veasey, Josephine; London Symphony; Székely, Mihály; Szonyi, Olga; Performances; Wagner, Richard; Solti, Georg, Sir; St. Anthony Singers; Vienna Philharmonia; Wagner: Siegfried (Sound recording); Windgassen, Wolfgang PDF IMAGES
95-96	July 1963 Music in the round/Review The sign of the major artist By Discus SEE ALSO: Scarlatti, Alessandro; Watts, Andre; Rubinstein, Artur; Bartók, Béla; Bartók: Piano concerto #1. Prokofieff: Concerto for the left hand (Sound recording); Beethoven: Emperor concerto (Sound recording); Beethoven: Moonlight sonata; Pathétique sonata; Les Adieux sonata (Sound recording); Franck, César; Chopin: B minor scherzo; A flat ballade. Franck: Prelude, chorale and fugue. Beethoven: Appassionata sonata. Mozart: C minor sonata (Sound recording); Columbia Symphony; Ormandy, Eugene; Fauré: Complete works (Sound recording); Chopin, Frédéric; Liszt, Franz; Schubert, Franz; Fauré, Gabriel; Graffman, Gary; Szell, George; Bachauer, Gina; Johannesen, Grant; Moravec, Ivan; Bernstein, Leonard; Liszt: E flat piano concerto; Les Préludes (Sound recording); Liszt: Sonata; Funérailles. Schumann: Toccata; Arabesque; Traumeswirren; Presto passionato (Sound recording); London Symphony; Beethoven, Ludwig van; New York Philharmonic; Performances; Philadelphia Orchestra; Prokofieff: Piano sonata #2; Piano sonata #3 (Sound recording); Schumann, Robert; Serkin, Rudolf; Schumann: Papillons; G minor sonata; Faschingsschwank aus Wien (Sound recording); Schumann: Tocata; Kinderscenen. Scarlatti: Sonatas. Schubert: G flat impromptu (Sound recording); Prokofieff, Sergey; Skrowaczewski, Stanislaw; Richter, Sviatoslav; Horowitz, Vladimir; Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus PDF IMAGES
120-124	March 1963 Music in the round/Review Varese and Bartok By Discus SEE ALSO: Bartók, Béla; Bartók: Music for strings, percussion, and celesta; Three village scenes (Sound recording); Bartók: Piano concert #1; Piano concert #2 (Sound recording); Columbia Symphony Orchestra; Precht, Donna; Varèse, Edgard; Lehel, György; Ferencsik, Janos; Zempléni, Kornél; Performances; Craft, Robert; Wehner, Tibor; Varèse: Ionization; Octandre; Density 21.5; Intégrales; Poème éléctronique (Sound recording) PDF IMAGES
119-123	November 1962 Music in the round/Review Spinning through Europe By Discus SEE ALSO: Bartók, Béla; Bartók: The miraculous mandarin; The wooden prince (Sound recording); Hungerford, Bruce; Nielsen, Carl; Møller, Eyvind; Laursen, Kai; Nielsen: Violin sonata (1912); Prelude and theme with variations (1923); Preludio and presto (1928) (Sound recording); Performances; Wagner, Richard; Reinhardt, Rolf; Angeles, Victoria de los; Wagner: The complete piano works (Sound recording) PDF IMAGES
116-118	October 1961 Music in the round/Review From Hungary to here By Discus SEE ALSO: Bartók, Béla; Bartók: String quartets (Sound recording); Carter: Quartet #2. Schuman: Quartet #3 (Sound recording); Carter, Elliott; Juilliard String Quartet; Ramor Quartet; Schuman, William PDF IMAGES
116-120	October 1960 Music in the round/Review New worlds of sound By Discus SEE ALSO: Bartók, Béla; Bartók: Bluebeard's castle (Sound recording); Bartók: Concerto for orchestra (Sound recording); Bartók: Music for strings, percussion, and celesta (Sound recording); Berg; Berlin Radio Symphony; Chicago Symphony; Milhaud, Darius; Fischer-Dieskau, Dietrich; Varèse, Edgard; Ansermet, Ernest; Ormandy, Eugene; Fricsay, Ferenc; Reiner, Fritz; Töpper, Hertha; Lamoureux Orchestra; Bernstein, Leonard; Milhaud: The four seasons (Sound recording); New York Philharmonic; Orchestre de la Suisse Romande; Performances; Philadelphia Orchestra; Prokofieff: Symphony #4 (Sound recording); Craft, Robert; Schoenberg; Schoenberg: Five pieces for orchestra. Berg: Altenburg lieder. Webern: Five pieces for string orchestra (Sound recording); Prokofieff, Sergey; Varèse: Ionization; Density 21.5; Intègrales; Octandre; Hyperprism; Poème électronique (Sound recording); Webern PDF IMAGES
120	October 1960 Music in the round/Review And also . . . By Discus SEE ALSO: Bartók, Béla; Bartók: Piano concerto #2; Piano concerto #3 (Sound recording); Duparc: Songs (Sound recording); Sándor, György; Bouvier, Hélène; Duparc, Henri; Gielen, Michael; Performances; Pro Musica Orchestra PDF IMAGES
106	June 1960 Music in the round/Review And also . . . By Discus SEE ALSO: Galliera, Alceo; Moffo, Anna; Toscanini, Arturo; Bartók, Béla; Bartók: Music for strings, percussion, and celesta; Hungarian sketches (Sound recording); Beethoven: Symphony #3 (“Eroica”) (Sound recording); Chicago Symphony; Reiner, Fritz; Beethoven, Ludwig van; Mozart: Arias (Sound recording); NBC Symphony; Performances; Philharmonia Orchestra; Rachmaninoff: Preludes (Sound recording); Rachmaninoff, Sergei; Gordon, Stewart; Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus PDF IMAGES
98-100	January 1960 Music in the round/Review Down the river with Beecham By Discus SEE ALSO: Honegger, Arthur; Bartók, Béla; Ormandy, Eugene; Poulenc, Francis; Werner, Fritz; Fauré, Gabriel; Handel, George Frideric; Jouineau, Jacques; Bach, Johann Sebastian; Messiah (Sound recording); Wöldike, Mogens; Philadelphia Orchestra; Poulenc: Litanies à la vierge voir. Fauré: Messe basse; Tantum ergo. Bartók: Six chants populaires hongrois. Honegger: Cantique de pâques (Sound recording); Royal Philharmonic Orchestra; Beecham, Thomas, Sir; Goossens, Eugene, Sir; St. Matthew passions (Sound recording) PDF IMAGES
95-97	January 1959 The new recordings/Review Big fellows By Edward Tatnall Canby SEE ALSO: Bartók, Béla; Bamberg Symphony; Bartok: Concerto for orchestra (Sound recording); Bartok: Violin concerto (1938) (Sound recording); Boston Symphony; Brahms: Piano concerto #1 (Sound recording); Cleveland Orchestra; Dorati; Ormandy, Eugene; Hollreiser; Stern, Isaac; Brahms, Johannes; Krips; Fleisher, Leon; Bernstein, Leonard; Menuhin; Minneapolis Symphony; Monteux; Mozart: Don Giovanni (Sound recording); New York Philharmonic; Performances; Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilich; Philadelphia Orchestra; Sebelius; Sebelius: Symphony #2 (Sound recording); Szell; Tchaikovsky: Symphony #6 (“Pathétique”) (Sound recording); Vienna Philharmonia; Vienna State Opera Chorus; Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus PDF IMAGES
93	August 1958 The new recordings/Review Worth looking into . . . By Edward Tatnall Canby SEE ALSO: Poell, Alfred; Alfred Poell sings songs of Wolf (Sound recording); Bartók, Béla; Bartók: Songs, op. 16; Hungarian folk songs (Sound recording); Fischer-Dieskau; Mahler, Gustav; Wolf, Hugo; Brahms, Johannes; Flagstad, Kirsten; Kirsten Flagstad Brahms recital (Sound recording); László, Magda; Mahler: Songs of a wayfarer. Brahms: Lieder (Sound recording); Performances; Furtwängler, Wilhelm PDF IMAGES
101	September 1957 The new recordings/Review Worth looking into . . . By Edward Tatnall Canby SEE ALSO: Bartók, Béla; Béla Bartók at the piano (Sound recording); Bartók: Concerto for orchestra (Sound recording); Bartók: Sonata for two pianos and percussion; Contrasts (clar. & pf.) (Sound recording); Shostakovich, Dmitrii Dmitrievich; Ansermet, Ernest; Hindemith: The four temperaments; Five pieces op. 44, #4 (educ. music); Funeral music for George V (Sound recording); Kondrashin, Kirill Petrovich; Kurtz; Philippot, Michel; Orchestre de la Suisse Romande; Hindemith, Paul; Philadelphia Orchestra; Schaeffer, Pierre; Prokofieff: Piano concerto #3; Violin concerto #1 (Sound recording); Prokofieff, Sergey; Shostakovitch: Symphony #10 (Sound recording); State Radio Orchestra (U.S.S.R.) PDF IMAGES
102-104	April 1957 The new recordings/Review Skim milk and cream By Edward Tatnall Canby SEE ALSO: Tansman, Alexandre; Grumiaux, Arthur; Bartók, Béla; Bach for percussion: Toccata and fugue in D minor; “Great” G minor fugue; Toccata in F minor; Fugue in C (Sound recording); Bamberg Symphony; Bartók: Sonata #1 for violin and piano (1921) (Sound recording); Beethoven: “Add-a-soloist”: Piano concerto #1; Piano concerto #3 (Sound recording); Goltz, Christel; Haskil, Clara; Shostakovich, Dmitrii Dmitrievich; Kabalevsky, Dmitry Borisovich; Litschauer, Franz; Gilbert and Sullivan: The do-it-yourself H.M.S. Pinafore (Sound recording); Hollreiser, Heinrich; Hindemith: Piano sonata #1; Piano sonata #3 (1936) (Sound recording); Bach, Johann Sebastian; Perlea, Jonel; Hambro, Leonid; Shankson, Louis; Beethoven, Ludwig van; Tipo, Maria; Mozart: Church sonatas for several instruments and organ (Sound recording); Mozart: Sonata in B flat, K. 454; Sonata in A, K. 526 (Sound recording); Badura-Skoda, Paul; Hindemith, Paul; Kempen, Paul van; Performances; Piano concerto #21 in C, K. 467; Piano concerto #25 in C, K. 503 (Sound recording); Strauss, Richard; Mann, Robert; Schumann, Robert; Reinhardt, Rolf; Schumann: Symphonic etudes, op. 13; Scenes from childhood, op. 15 (Sound recording); Shostakovitch: Symphony #1. Kabalevsky: Colas Breugnon suite, op. 24 (Sound recording); Sullivan, Arthur, Sir; Glick, Srul Irving; St. Louis Symphony; Strauss: Metamorphoses (1945); Four last songs (1948) (Sound recording); Tansman: Isaiah, the prophet (Sound recording); Golschmann, Vladimir; Gilbert, W.S. (William Schwenck); Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus PDF IMAGES
94-96	January 1957 The new recordings/Review Contemporary music By Edward Tatnall Canby SEE ALSO: Foldes, Andor; Bartók, Béla; Bartók: Divertimento for strings (1939). Charles Ives: The unanswered question. Milhaud: Symphony #4 for strings. Skalkottas: Little suite for strings (Sound recording); Bartók: Microcosmos (complete) (Sound recording); Bartók: Music for strings, percussion and celesta (1936); Dance suite (1923) (Sound recording); Surinach, Carlos; Ives, Charles; McPhee, Colin; Milhaud, Darius; Fernadi, Edith; Carter, Elliott; Elliott Carter: String quartet (Sound recording); Fricsay, Ferenc; Hindemith: Nobilissima visione (1938); Symphonic metamorphoses on themes of Weber (1943) (Sound recording); Keilberth, Joseph; Foss, Lukas; Skalkottas, Nikos; Hindemith, Paul; Performances; Philharmonia Orchestra of Hamburg; RIAS Symphony Orchestra; Sessions, Roger; Roger Sessions: Second string quartet. Colin McPhee: Concerto for piano with wind octette accompaniment (1928) (Sound recording); Voisin, Roger; The piano music of Béla Bartók (Sound recording) PDF IMAGES
95	August 1956 The new recordings/Review Worth looking into . . . By Edward Tatnall Canby SEE ALSO: Schoenberg, Arnold; Bartók, Béla; Bamberg Symphony; Bartók: Microcosmos (complete) (Sound recording); Brahms: Horn trio, op. 40. Wenzel Stich: Quartet for horn and strings (Sound recording); Remoortel, Edouard van; Grieg, Edvard; Fauré: Piano quartet #1; Piano quartet #2 (Sound recording); Nobel, Felix de; Fauré, Gabriel; Punto, Giovanni; Grieg: Lyric suite, op. 54; Norwegian dances, op. 35; Wedding day at Troldhaugen; Holberg suit (Sound recording); Stravinsky, Igor; Brahms, Johannes; Leibowitz; Netherlands Chamber Choir; Schoenberg: Pierrot Lunaire (Sound recording); Stravinsky: Les noces: Mass (1948); Pater noster; Ave Maria (Sound recording) PDF IMAGES
94-95	July 1955 The new recordings/Review Epoch at Bennington By Edward Tatnall Canby SEE ALSO: Bartók, Béla; Bartók: Concerto for orchestra (1944) (Sound recording); Britten, Benjamin; Bennington; Berlin Philharmonic; Britten: a simple symphony (Sound recording); Britten: Diversions for piano (left hand) and orchestra (Sound recording); Britten: Sinfonia da requiem (Sound recording); Saint-Saëns, Camille; Concerts; Varèse, Edgard; Ormandy, Eugene; Hindemith: Symphony “Die Harmonie der Welt” (1951) (Sound recording); Markevitch, Igor; London Symphony; New Symphony; Hindemith, Paul; Performances; Pears, Peter; Philadelphia Orchestra; Philharmonia Orchestra of London; Saint-Saëns: Le Carnival des animaux. Britten: Young person's guide to the orchestra (Sound recording); Goossens, Eugene, Sir PDF IMAGES
102-104	January 1955 The new recordings/Review Sound-spaces: I. The listening window By Edward Tatnall Canby SEE ALSO: Dorati, Antal; Architectural acoustics; Bartók, Béla; Bartók: Concerto for orchestra (Sound recording); Bartók: For children (Sound recording); Bartók: Piano concerto #2; Piano concerto #3 (Sound recording); Bartók: Songs, op. 16; Hungarian folk songs (Sound recording); Bartók: The wooden prince (Sound recording); Cleveland Orchestra; Villa-Lobos, Heitor; Scherchen, Hermann; Hull; Stravinsky, Igor; Bach, Johann Sebastian; Minneapolis Symphony; New Symphony; Page; Stravinsky: Concerto in D for string orchestra. Bach: Brandenburg concerto #3; Suite for strings (arr. Bachrich). Villa-Lobos: Bachianas brasileiras (Sound recording); Stravinsky: Danses concertantes; Dumbarton Oaks concerto; Concertino and three pieces for string quartet (Sound recording); Stravinsky: Symphony in C (1940); Cantata (1952) (Sound recording); Vienna State Opera Orchestra; Susskind, Walter PDF IMAGES
108-112	November 1954 The new recordings/Review Trade-ins By Edward Tatnall Canby SEE ALSO: A Leroy Anderson “pops” concert (Sound recording); Dorati, Antal; Fiedler, Arthur; Bartók, Béla; Bartók: Concerto for orchestra (Sound recording); Boston Pops Orchestra; Chicago Symphony; Liszt, Franz; Schubert, Franz; Reiner, Fritz; Anderson, Leroy; Liszt: Dante fantasia; Sonata in B minor; shorter pieces (Sound recording); Minneapolis Symphony; Mr. Strauss comes to Boston (Sound recording); Frugoni, Orazio; Performances; Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilich; Strauss, Richard; Schubert: Symphony #8, “Unfinished.” Tchaikowsky: “Romeo and Juliet” (Sound recording); Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra; Salome, dance of the seven veils (Sound recording); Strauss: Ein Heldenleben (Sound recording) PDF IMAGES
103-104	July 1953 The new recordings/Review Super sound By Edward Tatnall Canby SEE ALSO: Bartók, Béla; Bartok: “For children”: 40 pieces on Hungarian folk tunes (1907-8) (Sound recording); Bloch; Shostakovich, Dmitriæi Dmitrievich; Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix; Mahler, Gustav; Rosbaud, Hans; Scherchen, Hermann; High-fidelity sound systems; London Symphony; Mahler: Symphony #7 (“Song of the Night”) (Sound recording); Mendelssohn: “Scotch” symphony (Sound recording); Milhaud; Pittsburgh Symphony; Prokofiev; IProkofiev. Shostakovich. Bloch. Milhaud. Starer (Sound recording); Radio Berlin Symphony; Recording and reproducing; Solti, Georg, Sir; Sound; Starer; Vienna State Opera Orchestra; Steinberg, William PDF IMAGES