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| 80% Recommended by our customers. Label: Vox (Classical) Catalog: Music Release date: 2003-05-27 Media: Audio CD discs number: 5 Ean: 0047163361029 Upc: 047163361029  Tip: compare prices with similar classical music CDs |
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| Sàndor, still active at 90 as this reissue appears, was a student of Bartók and a preferred interpreter of his music. Since this set appeared on nine LPs in the early 1960s, it has been the standard for Bartók's piano music; in this fine-sounding reissue, it still is. Sàndor can hit hard enough for such virtuoso pieces as the Piano Sonata and "Out of Doors," but he also retains the romantic element heard in the composer's own playing which tempers the harsher qualities of the music. While this collection isn't quite as complete as advertised (some early, insignificant piano music by Bartók is omitted), it includes all of Bartók's significant piano music, including such relatively obscure gems as the Bagatelles, eight Improvisations, and many delectable folk arrangements which will appeal even to listeners who think Bartók is too challenging for them. Vox's recorded sound, superbly remastered, resists obsolescence as effectively as Sàndor's performances. Even with the inclusion of the early books of "Mikrokosmos," which will appeal mostly to piano students, this set is worth several times the asking price. --Leslie Gerber |
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Written on April 4, 2005 Summary: 5 Stars for the music and performance This is a fantastic deal, but the problem with this Collection stems from the fact that the pieces are often not separated by tracks. This is especially annoying for the Children's Pieces and Mikrokosmos. There are so many pieces, one wears out the fast forward button and still may miss the particular piece one is looking for. The booklet is fairly insightful, and the performer is widely hailed as the supreme interpreter of Bartok's piano music. So aside from this slightly annoying at times and ridiculously annoying at other times flaw, this is one of the best deals in Classical music. Don't hesitate. Add it to the cart.  Written on March 18, 2005 Summary: Definitive Performances are great, and this is Bartok's student we're talking about. Sound quality is not even that bad, even though the recordings are rather old. These CDs also won the "Grand Prix du Disque." Highly recommended. Written on May 21, 2004 Summary: The best Bartok performer ever I had the huge privilege of watching Mr. Sandor a couple times in Caracas. One of these he played the third Concert of Bela Bartok and the second recital December 9 1982 Sandor played The funerailles of Liszt, the Marozzek Dances of Kodaly and that incredible performance given of Outdoors from Bartok. At the end of the recital he gave a brief interview and talked about his friend Bartok, a great man , very illustrated, and domained fourteen languages. I knew about him many years before those recitals. When you listen Mr. Sandor above all, you have the absolute sensation you are in front an exceptional artist; honesty, conviction and overpowered pianistic skills . This protegé of Bartok and exception witness of many interesting details about the life of this unique composer in XX century, gave the premiere of the third concert in 1945 with Ormandy and Philadelphia. Sandor owns a gift approach that no one performer of Bartok has. And believe me, I've tried with Kocsis, Schiff, Anda, Perahia, Richter, among others. They are very good pianists but lack the wild conception and the roughness playing , they seem to be walking in a cloudy landscape, and his playing sounds OK but lack the idiomatic tone, percusiveness and incisiveness that Bartok demands for the performer. Sandor in the peak of his pianistic powers (middle of the sixties) gives the best of his craft in these five CD that resumes a whole life, surrounded and permeated of livings and experience that can not be taken to the score. Watch this set if you are a Bartok admirer as I do. And you can forget all the others performers. Written on June 20, 2003 Summary: An essential set for Bartók lovers and pianophiles Once again, the underrated Vox Classics outclasses the Big Five with another superb and almost obscenely inexpensive box set -- this one bringing together their landmark survey of Béla Bartók's complete solo piano music by Bartók's most well known protégé György Sándor, recorded in 1963 and released as a series of multi-LP sets in the mid-1960s. For some reason, the solo piano music of Bartók has been overshadowed by a clutch of indisputable masterpieces (including but not limited to Concerto for Orchestra, Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta, Piano Concerto No. 2, Violin Concerto No. 2, Quartets Nos. 2 and 5, the Solo Violin Sonata and Bluebeard's Castle). Perhaps it's because so much of the Bartók's solo piano music is still regarded as "pedagogic" -- as in the case of the Mikrokosmos and For Children cycles. Perhaps it is because so many of the works consist of many short movements -- and in this respect Bartók can to an extent be compared with Edvard Grieg, whose masterly short piano works get the short shrift. If you are predisposed to dismiss this repertoire based on those prejudices, allow social critic and comedian Bill Maher to speak for me: "Get over yourself!" Make no mistake: this set is filled with so much delightful music that if you have a serious interest in Bartók, or in great piano music, or are a student or teacher of the piano, you are doing yourself a major disservice by not clicking that "add to my shopping cart" button. And keep this in mind: you'd pay about the same amount for a front-line single disc of Bartók's major solo works containing the most well known works (In the Woods, Allegro Barbaro, the Sonata and the Suite) -- but you'd miss out on some genuine delights. Transfers are generally excellent, and the booklet includes an informative 11-page essay on the music by Harry Halbreich. |
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| Catalog | Music | Music | Music | Music | Music | Music |
| Release date | 2003-05-27 | 2005-01-11 | 2002-12-10 | 2004-06-01 | 1993-08-10 | 1994-08-15 |
| Media | Audio CD | Audio CD | Audio CD | Audio CD | Audio CD | Audio CD |
| discs number | 5 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 |
| Format | - | - | Box set, Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered | Original recording remastered | - | - |
| Ean | 0047163361029 | 0028947753308 | 0047163360626 | 0724358548723 | 0090266150427 | 0047163551420 |
| Upc | 047163361029 | 028947753308 | 047163360626 | 724358548723 | 090266150427 | 047163551420 |
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