I don't care at all for the pieces he wrote after moving the the USA, where he had to 'write down' to an ultra-conservative audience (eg Concerto for Orchestra, 3rd Piano Concerto).
If I had to choose some favourites, they would include:
I anticipate to peer quite a few 'Concerto for Orchestra' answers however, for me, the works that Bartóok wrote after his enforced move to the United States where he watered down his type in the hope of being ready to get his works carried out in entrance of the extremely-conservative American audiences, are pale imitations of his previous music. So, the third Piano Concerto and Concerto for Orchestra are well down my record (if best he'd written the Concerto for Orchestra, say 5-6 years earlier). A piece which is truly magical and which almost by no means gets performed is the Cantata Profana (The Enchanted Stags). I suppose the linguistic barrier (Hungarian is not a language all singers need to check out and deal with) and the situation of the solo tenor and bass roles count against it, however it is a authentic masterpiece amongst Bartóokay's works. I could plump for this. Or probably 'The Miracuous Mandarin'. Or the 'Dance Suite'. Or the 5th String Quartet. See? I'm no good at these 'favourites' questions.
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I don't care at all for the pieces he wrote after moving the the USA, where he had to 'write down' to an ultra-conservative audience (eg Concerto for Orchestra, 3rd Piano Concerto).
If I had to choose some favourites, they would include:
Cantata profana (The Enchanted Stags)
Dance Suite
Duke Bluebeard's Castle
The Miraculous Mandarin
Music for Strings, Percussion and Celeste
Piano Concerto No 2
Sonata for 2 Pianos and Percussion
String Quartet No 5
I anticipate to peer quite a few 'Concerto for Orchestra' answers however, for me, the works that Bartóok wrote after his enforced move to the United States where he watered down his type in the hope of being ready to get his works carried out in entrance of the extremely-conservative American audiences, are pale imitations of his previous music. So, the third Piano Concerto and Concerto for Orchestra are well down my record (if best he'd written the Concerto for Orchestra, say 5-6 years earlier). A piece which is truly magical and which almost by no means gets performed is the Cantata Profana (The Enchanted Stags). I suppose the linguistic barrier (Hungarian is not a language all singers need to check out and deal with) and the situation of the solo tenor and bass roles count against it, however it is a authentic masterpiece amongst Bartóokay's works. I could plump for this. Or probably 'The Miracuous Mandarin'. Or the 'Dance Suite'. Or the 5th String Quartet. See? I'm no good at these 'favourites' questions.
Concerto for Orchestra.
Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta.
Hungarian Sketches.
The Miraculous Mandarin
"For Children No. 4"
"With Drums and Pipes"
" Romanian Folk Dances"
"An Evening In Transyilvania"
"The Night Garden"
concerto for orchestra is my favourite.
I like the Romanian folk dances too.
All his string quartets and his Romanian dances.
I like his sketches and string quartets! :-)