SKU: HL.48023788

ISBN 9781784541927. UPC: 888680687953. 9x12 inches.

The Definitive Bartók Edition brings together selected highlights from the definitive imprints of pedagogical masterpieces Mikrokosmos (1926-37) and For Children (1908-09, revised 1943) alongside excerpts from Romanian Folk Dances (1915) and Romanian Christmas Carols (1915) in two companion volumes for the very first time.

Contents: St. George Day (For Children I/2) • Come Here, Lidi (For Children I/3) • Melody with Accompaniment (Mikrokosmos - No. 41) • Children's Song (For Children II/9) • Mourning Song (For Children II/10) • In Yugoslave Style (Mikrokosmos - No. 40) • Ploughing (For Children II/14) • Rogue's Song/Sorrow (For Children II/7) • Bagatelle No. 6 (Fourteen Bagatelles - No. 6) • Baking Song (For Children I/1) • County Fair (Mikrokosmos No. 47) • The Lost Couple (For Children I/11) • The Two Roses (For Children II/11) • Three Roses (For Children II/11) • My Lover's Mother (For Children II/12) • Where Are Your Geese? (For Children II/13) • Slovakian Folk Song (Ten Easy Pieces - No. 8) • In The Garden (For Children I/26) • Carol No. 4 (Romanian Christmas Carols - set I, No. 4) • Carol No. 7 (Romanian Christmas Carols - set II, No. 7) • Triplets (Mikrokosmos - No. 75) • Farewell (For Children II/34) • Duet for Pipes (Mikrokosmos - No. 88) • Kitty, Kitty (For Children I/5) • Round Dance (For Children I/17) • Bagatelle No. 4 (Fourteen Bagatelles - No. 5) • Variations (Mikrokosmos - No. 87) • From the Island of Bali (Mikrokosmos - No. 109) • Children's Dance (For Children I/10).

SKU: HL.50606837

ISBN 9798350114607. UPC: 196288188766.

Lajos Bárdos (1899-1986), composer, musicologist, teacher, and choral conductor, laid down, together with Kodály, the foundations of 20th-century Hungarian choral music. Through his work as a conductor, he raised the standards of Hungarian choral singing to an international level in a few decades. His compositions were directed towards cultivating Hungarian choral life: they draw on Renaissance polyphony and Hungarian folk music, following Kodály and Bartók. His works, which are models of choral writing, deal sensitively with Hungarian prosody and radiate an inner harmony and vigor. A selection of his most popular choral works has been published with English texts by Gail Needleman in five volumes. Contents: 1. Márkus Miklós dr.: Campfire Song 2. Kovács Márk: Stretch Thy Hands. 3. Dienes Valéria Dr.: Christmas Lullaby 4. Czikéné Lovich Ilona: Holy Christmas Night.

SKU: HL.50606510

ISBN 9781705190739. UPC: 196288126867.

Bartók composed the Sonatina for solo piano in his 'Romanian year' of 1915; this was when he also composed the set of Romanian Folk Dances and the Romanian Christmas Carols. In this relatively short piano piece (lasting three to four minutes), the composer used instrumental folk music collected in Transylvania. In the first movement, Bartók conjures up two bagpipes, and, in the second, a fiddler playing for a bear dance. The first edition of the Sonatina was published by Rózsavölgyi in 1919, and the composer premieredthe work in 1920 in Pozsony (Bratislava). This separate print is based on volume 38 of the Bartók Complete Critical Edition published in 2019, in which Henle Verlag of Munichand Editio Musica Budapest published the piano works composed between 1914 and 1920. The musical text is accompanied by a preface in English and Hungarian by László Somfai, and by editorial remarks which not only discuss the sources but also offer practical advice for performers. Contents: 1. Bagpipers 2. Bear Dance 3. Finale.