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Topic: Bartok etude op 18 nr 1  (Read 1723 times)

Offline fnork

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Bartok etude op 18 nr 1
on: April 06, 2013, 08:34:01 PM
picking up an old piece...comments welcome.
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Re: Bartok etude op 18 nr 1
Reply #1 on: April 07, 2013, 05:04:07 AM
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.
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Re: Bartok etude op 18 nr 1
Reply #2 on: April 07, 2013, 09:53:01 AM
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...
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