Bartok "Six Dances in Bulgarian Rhythm" - #2

[pianistavt]

Posting one of my favorite composers - Bartok - for your enjoyment.
Feedback welcome here or on YT.

[pianistavt]

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.

[owen david]

Bach - inspiring. Beethoven - inspiring. Brahms - inspiring. Bartok - depressing.

[pianistavt]

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

[dizzyfingers]

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.

[liszt-and-the-galops]

Bach - inspiring. Beethoven - inspiring. Brahms - inspiring. Bartok - depressing.

Beethoven is hardly inspiring, and Bartok is hardly depressing.

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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.