Piano
SKU:
BT.EMBZ1763
Composed
by Bela Bartok. Book
Only. Composed 1954. 24
pages. Editio Musica
Budapest #EMBZ1763.
Published by Editio
Musica Budapest
(BT.EMBZ1763).
French.
'Two
pieces of scherzo
character in triple time
flank a slower movement
in duple time. The first
burlesque entitled
'Quarrel' is Márta's
piece, Nov. 1908, is a
dispute between two
opposing characters, with
grimaces and taunts. The
second burlesque, with
the subtitle 'Slightly
Tipsy' or 'A bit drunk'
is one of Bartók's
ingenious programme music
miniatures, with
characteristic
performance indications.
The figure appearing in a
stumbling rhythm begins
to sing indifferently,
then continues ruvido
(coarsely). By the end of
the middle section, to be
played in dry tone, our
hero collapses
completely, and takes
leave as a pitiful
figure, like the wooden
puppet after the dance in
The WoodenPrince ballet.
...Finally, the titleless
third burlesque, Molto
vivo, capriccioso, also
stimulates the
imagination: one can
detect in it the
grotesque rush of the
last bagatelle, 'My
Dancing Sweetheart,' just
like the Wooden Prince
dance. (HCD 32525
Bartók New Series Vol.
25, László
Somfai).
