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Topic: Bartok "Six Dances in Bulgarian Rhythm" - #2  (Read 4180 times)

Offline pianistavt

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Bartok "Six Dances in Bulgarian Rhythm" - #2
on: March 03, 2024, 03:37:27 PM
Posting one of my favorite composers - Bartok - for your enjoyment.
Feedback welcome here or on YT.



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Re: Bartok "Six Dances in Bulgarian Rhythm" - #2
Reply #1 on: March 14, 2024, 02:33:24 PM
I think this is my favorite one of the 6. 
I play it once or twice almost every day - trying to get it fully memorized.
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Re: Bartok "Six Dances in Bulgarian Rhythm" - #2
Reply #2 on: March 18, 2024, 02:03:18 AM
Bach - inspiring. Beethoven - inspiring. Brahms - inspiring. Bartok - depressing.
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Re: Bartok "Six Dances in Bulgarian Rhythm" - #2
Reply #3 on: March 19, 2024, 05:16:00 PM
Quote from: owen david on March 18, 2024, 02:03:18 AM
Bach - inspiring. Beethoven - inspiring. Brahms - inspiring. Bartok - depressing.

Shouldn't that go in the unpopular opinions post?

https://www.pianostreet.com/smf/index.php?topic=66555
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Re: Bartok "Six Dances in Bulgarian Rhythm" - #2
Reply #4 on: May 07, 2025, 02:51:39 AM
Quote from: owen david on March 18, 2024, 02:03:18 AM
Bach - inspiring. Beethoven - inspiring. Brahms - inspiring. Bartok - depressing.

If Bartok wrote a depressing/sad piece ever, I've never heard it.  He's more focused on upbeat vitality than all the above named composers, B., B., & B.  ... 

Some can't handle excursions away from conventional tonality n forms... locked in the past, tradition.

Anyway this is a fun short piece, nicely rendered, just need to get that page turn weeded out.
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Re: Bartok "Six Dances in Bulgarian Rhythm" - #2
Reply #5 on: May 07, 2025, 09:03:04 PM
Quote from: owen david on March 18, 2024, 02:03:18 AM
Bach - inspiring. Beethoven - inspiring. Brahms - inspiring. Bartok - depressing.
Beethoven is hardly inspiring, and Bartok is hardly depressing.
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Re: Bartok "Six Dances in Bulgarian Rhythm" - #2
Reply #6 on: May 07, 2025, 09:49:27 PM
Quote from: liszt-and-the-galops on May 07, 2025, 09:03:04 PM
Beethoven is hardly inspiring, and Bartok is hardly depressing.
All opinions. Plus everything said before.

Everyone has a right to think anything about any composer, because there are no objective restraints about how a piece should make you feel. But I don't think that owen david's words are optimal for me, either.
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