Bartok etude op 18 nr 1

[fnork]

picking up an old piece...comments welcome.

[ted]

Although the stream of notes is regular, I imagine the main issue is getting the accents in meaningful places to impart rhythmic life. I have one professional recording of this but I think yours has more impetus and is therefore the more generally interesting for me.

[fnork]

thank you for the comment, and you're quite spot on. I played it once at a masterclass for a teacher that compared it a bit to Ligeti's "Desordre" (incidentally, this teacher knew and worked with Ligeti a long long time ago...), and that Bartok in a similar way tried to create disorder with the shifting accents etc. I still have work to do, and I'd like to have the rhythm yet more flexible at times. And it ought to be a bit faster...