Bartók: Mikrokosmos, Books 1-6

Bartók: Mikrokosmos, Books 1-6

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Composer: Bela Bartok
Performer: Tamara Takacs
Performer: Balázs Szokolay
Performer: Jenö Jandó
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2006-08-29
Music Label: Naxos
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  1. No.1: Six Unison Melodies
  2. No.2: Six Unison Melodies
  3. No.3: Six Unison Melodies
  4. No.4: Six Unison Melodies
  5. No.5: Six Unison Melodies
  6. No.6: Six Unison Melodies
  7. No.7: Dotted Notes
  8. No.8: Repetition
  9. No.9: Syncopation
  10. No.10: With Alternate Hands
  11. No.11: Parallel Motion
  12. No.12: Reflection
  13. No.13: Change Of Position
  14. No.14: Question And Answer
  15. No.15: Village Song
  16. No.16: Parallel Motion With Change Of Position
  17. No.17: Contrary Motion
  18. No.18: Four Unison Melodies
  19. No.19: Four Unison Melodies
  20. No.20: Four Unison Melodies
  21. No.21: Four Unison Melodies
  22. No.22: Imitation And Counterpoint
  23. No.23: Imitation And Inversion
  24. No.24: Pastorale
  25. No.25: Imitation And Inversion
  26. No.26: Repetition
  27. No.27: Syncopation
  28. No.28: Canon At The Octave
  29. No.29: Imitation Reflected
  30. No.30: Canon At The Lower Fifth
  31. No.31: Dance In Canon Form
  32. No.32: In Dorian Mode
  33. No.33: Slow Dance
  34. No.34: In Phrygian Mode
  35. No.35: Chorale
  36. No.36: Free Canon
  37. No.37: In Lydian Mode
  38. No.38: Staccato And Legato
  39. No.39: Staccato And Legato (Canon)
  40. No.30: In Yugoslav Style
  41. No.41: Melody With Accompaniment
  42. No.42: Accompaniment InBroken Triads
  43. No.43: In Hungarian Style
  44. No.44: Contrary Motion
  45. No.45: Meditation
  46. No.46: Increasing - Diminishing
  47. No.47: County Fair
  48. No.48: In Mixolydian Mode
  49. No.49: Crescendo - Diminuendo
  50. No.50: Minuetto
  51. No.51: Waves
  52. No.52: Unison Divided
  53. No.53: In Transylvanian Style
  54. No.54: Chromatics
  55. No.55: Triplets In Lydian Mode
  56. No.56: Melody In Tenths
  57. No.57: Accents
  58. No.58: In Oriental Style
  59. No.59: Major And Minor
  60. No.60: Canon With Sustained Notes
  61. No.61: Pentatonic Melody
  62. No.62: Minor Sixths In Parallel Motion
  63. No.63: Buzzing
  64. No.64: Line Against Point
  65. No.65: Dialogue
  66. No.66: Melody Divided
  67. No.67: Thirds Against A Single Voice
  68. No.68: Hungarian Dance
  69. No.69: Study In Chords
  70. No.70: Melody Against Double Notes
  71. No.71: Thirds
  72. No.72: Dragons' Dance
  73. No.73: Sixths And Triads
  74. No.74: Hungarian Matchmaking Song
  75. No.75: Triplets
  76. No.76: In Three Parts
  77. No.77: Little Study
  78. No.78: Five-Tone Scale
  79. No.79: Hommage A Johann Sebastian Bach
  80. No.80: Hommage A Robert Schumann
  81. No.81: Wandering
  82. No.82: Scherzo
  83. No.83: Melody With Interruptions
  84. No.84: Merriment
  85. No.85: Broken Chords
  86. No.86: Two Major Pentachords
  87. No.87: Variations
  88. No.88: Duet For Pipes
  89. No.89: In Four Parts
  90. No.90: In Russian Style
  91. No.91: Chromatic Invention
  92. No.92: Chromatic Invention
  93. No.93: In Four Parts
  94. No.94: Once Upon A Time...
  95. No.95: Fox Song
  96. No.96: Jolts
Music CD 2
  1. No.97: Notturno
  2. No.98: Thumbs Under
  3. No.99: Hands Crossing
  4. No.100: In Folk Song Style
  5. No.101: Diminished Fifth
  6. No.102: Harmonics
  7. No.103: Minor And major
  8. No.104: Wandering Through The Keys
  9. No.105: Game
  10. No.106: Children's Song
  11. No.107: Melody In The Mist
  12. No.108: Wrestling
  13. No.109: From The Island Of Bali
  14. No.110: And The Sounds Clash And Clang...
  15. No.111: Intermezzo
  16. No.112: Variations On A Folk Tune
  17. No.113: Bulgarian Rhythm
  18. No.114: Theme And Inversion
  19. No.115: Bulgarian Rhythm
  20. No.116: Song
  21. No.117: Bourree
  22. No.118: Triplets In 9/8 Time
  23. No.119: Dance In 3/4 Time
  24. No.120: Triads
  25. No.121: Two-Part Study
  26. No.122: Chords Together And In Opposition
  27. No.123: Staccato And Legato
  28. No.124: Staccato
  29. No.125: Boating
  30. No.126: Change Of Time
  31. No.127: New Hungarian Folk Song
  32. No.128: Stamping Dance
  33. No.129: Alternating Thirds
  34. No.130: Village Joke
  35. No.131: Fourths
  36. No.132: Major Seconds Broken And Together
  37. No.133: Syncopation
  38. No.134: Studies In Double Notes
  39. No.135: Perpetuum Mobile
  40. No.136: Whole-Tone Scales
  41. No.137: Unison
  42. No.138: Bagpipe Music
  43. No.139: Jack-In-The-Box
  44. No.140: Free Variations
  45. No.141: Subject And Reflection
  46. No.142: From The Diary Of A Fly
  47. No.143: Divided Arpeggios
  48. No.144: Minor Seconds, major Sevenths
  49. No.145: Chormatic Invention
  50. No.146: Ostinato
  51. No.147: March
  52. No.148: Six Dances In Bulgarian Rhythm
  53. No.149: Six Dances In Bulgarian Rhythm
  54. No.150: Six Dances In Bulgarian Rhythm
  55. No.151: Six Dances In Bulgarian Rhythm
  56. No.152: Six Dances In Bulgarian Rhythm
  57. No.153: Six Dances In Bulgarian Rhythm

Music reviews of Bartók: Mikrokosmos, Books 1-6

Music Review: Not for Everyone, But Good for What It Is
Rating: 4 Stars

A confession: Although I've owned the Dezso Ranki recording of the complete Bartók 'Mikrokosmos', I never listened to the whole thing. Mikrokosmos is a collection of six books of pedagogical piano pieces, 153 in all, that progress in difficulty from Book I to Book VI. Indeed, Books V and VI contain a number of virtuoso pieces that occasionally appear on piano concert programs. But those in Books I and II, and most of them in Books III and IV, are of quite limited interested to the casual listener. Mikrokosmos began as a set of teaching pieces written for Bartók's young son Peter to use in his piano practice. As the writing of the work progressed the pieces got more and more difficult and began getting names like 'And the Bells Clash and Clang...' or 'From the Diary of a Fly' rather than the earlier 'Dotted Notes' and 'Five-Tone Scale.' Even though there have been several recordings of the whole shebang it is hard for me to understand their value for the casual listener. I can understand piano teachers wanting to have the complete works on record, but frankly beyond that rather limited audience it seems reasonable for the listener to perhaps own excerpts from the later books. Indeed, Bartók, himself a virtuoso pianist, did not record the whole set but only some of the virtuosic (and interesting) later pieces. And a number of other pianists, many of them Hungarian like Bartók, have done likewise. Nonetheless, the set has exerted enduring interest for musicologists, partly because of their occasional use of non-Central European scales and melodies and partly because of the technical manner in which Bartók constructed the pieces. Dissertations have been written on those subjects. Bartók himself was prevailed upon by Schirmer, their American publisher, to write his own explication of the pieces.

Jenö Jandó is an excellent pianist, and a Hungarian to boot. He has recorded several earlier volumes of Bartók's more familiar (and frankly more interesting) piano music, and to general acclaim. His playing is rhythmically pointed, crisply articulated and with innate understanding of the eastern European provenance of much of the source music. Given the budget price and the lifelike sound of the recorded piano, as well as the excellence of the playing, Jandó's set is, I believe, the choice of currently available sets. Still, I can give it only four stars because of the limited interest of the earlier books in the set.

Scott Morrison
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