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Track Listings
| 1. Track 1 Seven Sketches: Portrait of a Girl |
| 2. Track 2 Seven Sketches: See Saw, Dickory Daw |
| 3. Track 3 Seven Sketches: Lento |
| 4. Track 4 Seven Sketches: Non troppo lento |
| 5. Track 5 Seven Sketches: Roumanian Folk Melody |
| 6. Track 6 Seven Sketches: In Walachian Style |
| 7. Track 7 Seven Sketches: Poco lento |
| 8. Track 8 Sonata 1926: Allegro moderato |
| 9. Track 9 Sonata 1926: Sostenuto e peasante |
| 10. Track 10 Sonata 1926: Allegro molto |
| 11. Track 11 Fifteen Hungarian Peasant Songs and Dances: Four Old Tunes |
| 12. Track 12 Fifteen Hungarian Peasant Songs and Dances: Scherzo |
| 13. Track 13 Fifteen Hungarian Peasant Songs and Dances: Ballad |
| 14. Track 14 Fifteen Hungarian Peasant Songs and Dances: Nine Old Dance Tunes |
| 15. Track 15 Four Dirges: Adagio |
| 16. Track 16 Four Dirges: Andante |
| 17. Track 17 Four Dirges: Poco lento |
| 18. Track 18 Four Dirges: Assai andante |
| 19. Track 19 Allegro Barbaro |
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Album Description
This set (this is the first out of seven CDs), would make an ideal introduction to Bartok's piano music, especially if you are still unfamiliar with the bulk of it. These are urbane, honest, eminently intelligible interpretations that will draw the uninitiated into the texts of this extraordinarily rich music. In her exhaustive survey of his complete piano works June de Toth proves herself a smart, solid, and reliable pianist. She offers thoughtful and often eloquent readings that reject both hysteria and the kind of kamikaze approach of so many young piano lions. Its overall sobriety and discipline is such that the music speaks for itself. She fathoms each solo piano work as a kind of apposite gestuary of hemiolas and unnerving hesitations, and as the stuff of musical speech. If Bartok was Hungary's answer to Moussorgsky, nowhere is it more evident than here. Capturing the essentially trochaic inflections of Hungarian speech with the knowing temperament of a native (Ms de Toth is full blood Hungarian) she lays out the keyboard songs with the patrician air of an old storyteller at a family gathering. Whatever one's ideas and taste may be in interpretation of Bartok, her performances are persuasive. Take particular note of her attractive readings of the 14 Bagatelles: these she portrays with a kind of arid simplicity that enhances their now playful, now lonely ethos.
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