Takuya Otaki - Bartók And Virtuosity (2017) [Hi-Res]

Tracklist
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01. Rhapsody for Piano, Op. 1 Sz. 26 BB 36a
02. Hungarian Folksongs from Csik, Sz. 35a BB 45b
03. 3 Burlesques, Op. 8c Sz. 47 BB 55: I. Presto
04. 3 Burlesques, Op. 8c Sz. 47 BB 55: II. Allegretto
05. 3 Burlesques, Op. 8c Sz. 47 BB 55: III. Molto vivo, capriccioso
06. 2 Romanian Folk Dances, Op. 8a Sz. 43 BB 56: I. Allegro vivace
07. 2 Romanian Folk Dances, Op. 8a Sz. 43 BB 56: II. Poco allegro
08. 3 Etudes, Op. 18 Sz. 72 BB 81: I. Allegro molto
09. 3 Etudes, Op. 18 Sz. 72 BB 81: II. Andante sostenuto-Più mosso
10. 3 Etudes, Op. 18 Sz. 72 BB 81: III. Rubato-Molto sostenuto-Tempo giusto-Rubato
11. 2 Elegies, Op. 8b Sz. 41 BB 49: I. Grave
12. 2 Elegies, Op. 8b Sz. 41 BB 49: II. Molto adagio, sempre rubato


Virtuosity is the dream of every adventurous pianist, coupled with the taste for risk, and almost for the random, staging and endangering, and of the extreme. This was not unknown to the young Béla Bartók. Slipping into the magician’s suit, young, handsome, and charming as was Franz Liszt, himself borrowing the lyricism and madness of ‘gypsy’ musicians’ improvisation without too many ethnological scruples, he ‘surfed’ from glissandos to tremolos, vying with Paganini’s violin. He was to assert himself in a society marked by the successes of performing musicians whose fame was, in this end of an era, beginning to be almost more important than that of the composers.

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