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Bartok: Complete Solo Piano Music

Zoltan Kocsis (piano)

Bartok: Complete Solo Piano Music
it remains the classic set for the foreseeable future. Bartok playing doesn't come any better than this - nor does piano recording. Kocsis penetrates to the very centre and soul of this music...

Penguin Guide, 2011 edition

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Bartok: Complete Solo Piano Music

Zoltan Kocsis (piano)

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it remains the classic set for the foreseeable future. Bartok playing doesn't come any better than this - nor does piano recording. Kocsis penetrates to the very centre and soul of this music...

Penguin Guide, 2011 edition

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Zoltán Kocsis performs the complete solo piano music of his fellow Hungarian, Béla Bartók. Completed in 2001, these critically acclaimed, definitive performances are the benchmark against which all others are considered.

"Kocsis penetrates to the very centre or soul of this music" The Penguin Guide to CDs

Contents and tracklist

Bartók: 14 Bagatelles, BB 50, Sz. 38
Work length25:03
1. Molto sostenuto
Track length1:20
2. Allegro giocoso
Track length0:46
3. Andante
Track length0:45
4. Grave
Track length1:05
5. Vivo
Track length1:01
6. Lento
Track length1:41
7. Allegretto molto capriccioso
Track length2:04
8. Andante sostenuto
Track length2:03
9. Allegretto grazioso
Track length2:10
10. Allegro
Track length2:07
11. Allegretto molto rubato
Track length1:58
12. Rubato
Track length3:57
13. Lento funebre (Elle est morte)
Track length2:12
14. Waltz (Presto) (Ma mie qui danse)
Track length1:54
Bartók: Two Elegies, BB 49
Work length14:36
1. Grave
Track length6:40
2. Molto adagio, sempre rubato
Track length7:56
Bartók: Romanian Folk Dances, Sz. 56, BB 68
Work length5:05
1. Stick Dance
Track length1:04
2. Sash Dance
Track length0:28
3. In One Spot
Track length0:52
4. Horn Dance
Track length1:24
5. Roumanian Polka
Track length0:27
6. Fast Dance
Track length0:50
Bartók: Sonatina, BB 69, Sz. 55
Work length3:51
1. Allegretto - Allegro
Track length1:32
2. Moderato
Track length0:36
3. Allegro vivace
Track length1:43
Bartók: 3 Hungarian Folk Tunes, BB 80b
Work length3:53
1. Andante tranquillo, rubato
Track length0:58
2. Allegro non troppo, un poco rubato
Track length1:06
3. Maestoso
Track length1:49
Bartók: Two Romanian Dances, Op. 8a, Sz. 43, BB56
Work length8:15
1. Allegro vivace
Track length4:29
2. Poco allegro
Track length3:46
Bartók: 3 Hungarian Folksongs from Csik, BB 45b, Sz. 35a
Work length3:11
Bartók: Allegro barbaro, BB 63, Sz. 49
Work length2:27
Bartók: Dirges (4), Op. 9a, BB 58, Sz. 45
Work length8:11
1. Adagio
Track length1:54
2. Andante
Track length2:01
3. Poco Lento
Track length1:59
4. Assai andante
Track length2:17
Bartók: Piano Suite, BB 70, Sz. 62, Op. 14
Work length8:01
1. Allegretto
Track length1:48
2. Scherzo
Track length1:42
3. Allegro molto
Track length1:57
4. Sostenuto
Track length2:34
Bartók: Romanian Christmas Carols, BB 67, Sz. 57
Work length10:41
1st Series
Track length4:38
2nd Series
Track length6:03
Bartók: 3 Studies, BB 81, Sz. 72, Op. 18
Work length6:59
1. Allegro molto
Track length2:05
2. Andante sostenuto - Più mosso
Track length2:56
3. Rubato - Molto sostenuto - Tempo giusto - Rubato
Track length1:58
Bartók: 3 Rondos on Slovak Folk Tunes, BB 92, Sz. 84
Work length8:01
1. Andante - Allegro molto - Più vivo - Tempo I - Allegro giocoso - Tempo I
Track length2:53
2. Vivacissimo - Allegro non troppo - Tempo I - Allegro assai - Un poco meno mosso - Allegro assai - Tempo I - Allegro non troppo - Tempo I
Track length2:33
3. Allegro molto - Meno mosso - Tempo I - Meno mosso - Tempo I - Molto tranquillo - Più lento - Allegro - Meno mosso - Più mosso - Tempo I
Track length2:35
Bartók: First Term at the Piano, BB 66, Sz. 53
Work length14:29
Bartók: For Children, Sz42
Work length1:13:27
No. 1 Allegro - No. 2 Andante - No. 3 Quasi adagio
Track length2:16
No. 4 Allegro - No. 5 Allegretto - No. 6 Allegro
Track length2:58
No. 7 Andante grazioso - No. 8 Allegretto
Track length2:08
No. 9 Adagio - No. 10 Allegro molto - No. 11 Lento - No. 12 Allegro
Track length4:16
No. 13 Andante - No. 14 Allegretto - No. 15 Allegro moderato
Track length1:52
No. 16 Andante rubato - No. 17 Lento
Track length1:42
No. 18 Andante non troppo - No. 19 Allegretto - No. 20 Allegro - No. 21 Allegro robusto
Track length2:56
No. 22 Allegretto - No. 23 Allegro grazioso - No. 24 Andante sostenuto - No. 25 Parlando
Track length3:13
No. 26 Moderato - No. 27 Allegramente - No. 28 Andante - No. 29 Allegro scherzando
Track length3:47
No. 30 Allegro ironico - No. 31 Andante tranquillo - No. 32 Andante - No. 33 Allegro non troppo
Track length4:17
No. 34 Allegretto - No. 35 Con moto - No. 36 Vivace - No. Allegro
Track length2:01
No. 38 Molto Vivace - No. 39 Allegro moderato
Track length2:59
No. 40 Allegro vivace
Track length1:39
No. 1 Allegro - No. 2 Andante - No. 3 Allegretto - No. 4 Andante
Track length2:09
No. 5 Molto andante - No. 6 Allegro - No. 7 Andante - No. 8 Allegro non troppo
Track length4:33
No. 9 Andante - No. 10 Largo
Track length1:58
No. 11 Lento - No. 12 Andante rubato - No. 13 Allegro
Track length2:19
No. 14 Moderato - No. 15 Molto tranquillo - No. 16 Lento - No. 17 Andante - No. 18 Sostenuto
Track length3:43
No. 19 Assai lento - No. 20 Presto
Track length1:52
No. 21 Allegro Moderato - No. 22 Molto Allegro
Track length1:48
No. 23 Andante tranquillo - No. 24 Andante - No. 25 Allegretto
Track length2:18
No. 26 Andante molto rubato - No. 27 Allegro
Track length2:00
No. 28 Andante, molto rubato - No. 29 Allegro non troppo No. 30 Vivace
Track length2:51
No. 31 Allegro - No. 32 Pesante - No. 33 Andante tranquillo
Track length2:24
No. 34 Adagio - No. 35 Moderato
Track length3:06
No. 36-37 Parlando, molto rubato, Allegro moderato
Track length2:48
No. 38 Lento - No. 39 Lento
Track length3:34
Bartók: Piano Sonata, BB 88, Sz. 80
Work length12:12
1. Allegro moderato
Track length4:24
2. Sostenuto e pesante
Track length4:35
3. Allegro molto
Track length3:13
Bartók: Out of Doors, Sz. 81, BB89
Work length13:12
1. With Drums and Pipes
Track length1:43
2. Barcarolla
Track length2:17
3. Musettes
Track length2:34
4. The Night's Music
Track length4:38
5. The Chase
Track length2:00
Bartók: Nine Little Piano Pieces, BB 90, Sz. 82
Work length15:05
1. Moderato
Track length1:38
2. Andante
Track length1:18
3. Lento
Track length1:42
4. Allegro vivace
Track length0:52
5. Menuetto
Track length1:55
6. Air
Track length1:02
7. Marcia Delle Bestie
Track length2:02
8. Tambourine
Track length1:04
9. Preludio - All' Ungherese
Track length3:32
Bartók: Petite Suite, BB 113, Sz. 105
Work length6:42
Slow Tune
Track length2:04
Walachian Dance
Track length0:47
Whirling Dance
Track length0:41
Quasi Pizzicato
Track length1:10
Ruthenian Dance
Track length0:57
Bagpipes
Track length1:03
Bartók: Mikrokosmos Book I
Work length22:12
No. 1 Unison Melody (1)
Track length0:24
No. 2 Unison Melody (2) (Version a & b)
Track length0:44
No. 3 Unison Melody (3)
Track length0:31
No. 4 Unison Melody (4)
Track length0:22
No. 5 Unison Melody (5)
Track length0:32
No. 6 Unison Melody (6)
Track length0:23
No. 7 Dotted Notes
Track length0:33
No. 8 Repetition
Track length0:33
No. 9 Syncopation
Track length0:38
No. 10 With Alternate Hands
Track length0:42
No. 11 Parallel Motion
Track length0:32
No. 12 Reflection
Track length0:25
No. 13 Change of Position
Track length0:31
No. 14 Question and Answer
Track length0:44
No. 15 Village Song
Track length0:29
No. 16 Parellel Motion with Change of Position
Track length0:53
No. 17 Contrary Motion
Track length0:30
No. 18 Unison Melody (1)
Track length0:23
No. 19 Unison Melody (2)
Track length0:32
No. 20 Unison Melody (3)
Track length0:40
No. 21 Unison Melody (4)
Track length0:25
No. 22 Imitation and Counterpoint
Track length0:33
No. 23 Imitation and Inversion
Track length0:33
No. 24 Pastorale
Track length0:37
No. 25 Imitaiton and Inversion
Track length1:02
No. 26 Repetition
Track length0:29
No. 27 Sycopation
Track length0:36
No. 28 Canon at the Octave
Track length0:31
No. 29 Imitation Reflected
Track length0:33
No. 30 Canon at the Lower Fifth
Track length0:55
No. 31 Dance in Canon Form
Track length0:40
No. 32 In Dorian Mode
Track length0:55
No. 33 Slow Dance
Track length0:40
No. 34 In Phrygian Mode
Track length0:45
No. 35 Chorale
Track length1:16
No. 36 Free Canon
Track length0:41
Bartók: Mikrokosmos, Sz. 107 - Book 2
Work length20:59
  • Zoltan Kocsis (piano), Karoly Mocsari (piano), Marta Lukin (mezzo-soprano)
  • Recorded: 1997-07
  • Recording Venue: Friedrich-Ebert-Halle, Hamburg
No. 37 In Lydian Mode
Track length0:37
No. 38 Staccato and Legato
Track length0:18
No. 39 Staccato and Legato (Canon)
Track length0:32
No. 40 In Yugoslav Style
Track length0:40
No. 41 Melody with Accompaniment
Track length0:43
No. 42 Acompaniment in Broken Triads
Track length1:24
No. 43 In Hungarian Style (Version a: 2 pianos; version b: piano solo)
Track length1:02
No. 44 Contrary Motion (2 pianos)
Track length0:19
No. 45 Méditation
Track length0:39
No. 46 Increasing - Diminishing
Track length0:59
No. 47 County Fair
Track length0:34
No. 48 In Mixolydian Mode
Track length0:55
No. 49 Crescendo - Diminuendo
Track length0:26
No. 50 Minuetto
Track length0:32
No. 51 Waves
Track length1:02
No. 52 Unison Divided
Track length0:20
No. 53 In Transylvanian Style
Track length0:37
No. 54 Chromatics
Track length0:17
No. 55 Triplets in Lydian Mode (2 pianos)
Track length0:32
No. 56 Melody in Tenths
Track length0:17
No. 57 Accents
Track length0:48
No. 58 In Oriental Style
Track length0:57
No. 59 Major and Minor
Track length0:46
No. 60 Canon with Sustained Notes
Track length0:38
No. 61 Pentatonic Melody
Track length0:53
No. 62 Minor Sixths in Parallel Motion
Track length0:41
No. 63 Buzzing
Track length0:38
No. 64 Line against Point (Version a & b)
Track length1:04
No. 65 Dialogue
Track length0:38
No. 66 Melody Divided
Track length1:11
Bartók: Mikrokosmos, Sz. 107 - Book 3
Work length27:05
  • Zoltan Kocsis (piano), Karoly Mocsari (piano), Marta Lukin (mezzo-soprano)
  • Recorded: 1997-07
  • Recording Venue: Friedrich-Ebert-Halle, Hamburg
No. 67 Thirds against a Single Voice
Track length0:39
No. 68 Hungarian Dance (2 pianos)
Track length0:32
No. 69 Study in Chords
Track length0:59
No. 70 Melody against Double Notes
Track length1:16
No. 71 Thirds
Track length1:18
No. 72 Dragons' Dance
Track length0:31
No. 73 Sixths and Triads
Track length0:38
No. 74 Hungarian Machmaking Song (Version a & b; version b with voice)
Track length1:23
No. 75 Triplets
Track length0:57
No. 76 In Three Parts
Track length0:28
No. 77 Little Study
Track length0:35
No. 78 Five-tone Scale
Track length0:29
No. 79 Hommage à J.S.B.
Track length0:50
No. 80 Hommage à R.Sch.
Track length0:42
No. 81 Wandering
Track length1:03
No. 82 Scherzo
Track length0:32
No. 83 Melody with Interruptions
Track length0:46
No. 84 Merriment
Track length0:48
No. 85 Broken Chords
Track length1:19
No. 86 Two Major Pentachords
Track length1:40
No. 87 Variations
Track length1:18
No. 88 Duet for Pipes
Track length1:02
No. 89 In Four Parts
Track length0:55
No. 90 In Russian Style
Track length0:38
No. 91 Chromatic Invention (1)
Track length1:03
No. 92 Chromatic Invention (2)
Track length0:55
No. 93 In Four Parts
Track length0:45
No. 94 Once Upon a Time...
Track length0:56
No. 95 Fox Song (Version a & b; version b with voice)
Track length1:20
No. 96 Jolts
Track length0:48
Bartók: Mikrokosmos Book IV
Work length27:20
No. 97 Notturno
Track length1:36
No. 98 Thumb under
Track length0:36
No. 99 Crossed Hands
Track length1:01
No. 100 In the Style of a Folk Song
Track length0:45
No. 101 Diminished Fifth
Track length0:50
No. 102 Harmonics
Track length1:21
No. 103 Minor and Major
Track length1:09
No. 104 Through the Keys (Version a & b)
Track length1:01
No. 105 Playsong
Track length0:59
No. 106 Children's Song
Track length1:05
No. 107 Melody in the Mist
Track length1:08
No. 108 Wrestling
Track length0:59
No. 109 From the Island of Bali
Track length1:58
No. 110 Clashing Sounds
Track length1:01
No. 111 Intermezzo
Track length1:38
No. 112 Variations on a Folk Tune
Track length1:01
No. 113 Bulgarian Rhythm (1)
Track length1:03
No. 114 Theme and Inversion
Track length1:18
No. 115 Bulgarian Rhythm (2)
Track length0:26
No. 116 Melody
Track length1:30
No. 117 Bourrée
Track length1:02
No. 118 Triplets in 9 / 8 Time
Track length0:55
No. 119 Dance in 3 / 4 Time
Track length0:48
No. 120 Fifth Chords
Track length0:59
No. 121 Two-Part Study
Track length1:11
Bartók: Mikrokosmos, Sz. 107 - Book 5
Work length19:39
  • Zoltan Kocsis (piano), Marta Lukin (mezzo-soprano)
  • Recorded: 1997-10
  • Recording Venue: Friedrich-Ebert-Halle, Hamburg
No. 122 Chords Together and Opposed
Track length0:57
No. 123 Staccato and Legato (Version a & b)
Track length0:50
No. 124 Staccato
Track length1:07
No. 125 Boating
Track length1:20
No. 126 Change of Time
Track length0:39
No. 127 New Hungarian Folk Song (With voice)
Track length0:58
No. 128 Peasant Dance
Track length1:12
No. 129 Alternating Thirds
Track length0:48
No. 130 Village Joke
Track length0:43
No. 131 Fourths
Track length0:49
No. 132 Major Seconds Broken and Together
Track length1:34
No. 133 Syncopation
Track length1:02
No. 134 Studies in Double Notes (Version a & b & c)
Track length1:02
No. 135 Perpetuum Mobile
Track length1:00
No. 136 Whole-tone Scale
Track length1:36
No. 137 Unison
Track length1:57
No. 138 Bagpipe
Track length1:14
No. 139 Merry Andrew
Track length0:51
Bartók: Mikrokosmos Book VI
Work length25:28
No. 140 Free Variations
Track length1:35
No. 141 Subject and Reflection
Track length1:16
No. 142 From the Diary of a Fly
Track length1:29
No. 143 Divided Arpeggios
Track length2:07
No. 144 Minor Seconds, Major Seventh
Track length4:20
No. 145 Chromatic Invention (Version a & b)
Track length2:25
No. 146 Ostinato
Track length2:05
No. 147 March
Track length1:44
No. 148 Dance in Bulgarian Rhythm I
Track length1:44
No. 149 Dance in Bulgarian Rhythm II
Track length1:08
No. 150 Dance in Bulgarian Rhythm III
Track length1:17
No. 151 Dance in Bulgarian Rhythm IV
Track length1:24
No. 152 Dance in Bulgarian Rhythm V
Track length1:10
No. 153 Dance in Bulgarian Rhythm VI
Track length1:44
Bartók: Three Burlesques, Op. 8c, Sz. 47, BB55
Work length6:42
1. Presto
Track length2:00
2. Allegretto
Track length2:15
3. Molto vivo, capriccioso
Track length2:27
Bartók: 7 Sketches, BB 54, Sz. 44
Work length11:20
1. Portait d'une jeune fille (Andante (con moto)
Track length1:47
2. Balançoire (Comodo)
Track length0:49
3. Lento
Track length1:57
4. Non troppo lento - Temp I
Track length3:25
5. Mélodie populaire roumaine (Andante)
Track length1:08
6. A la Manière Valaque (Allegretto)
Track length0:34
7. Poco lento
Track length1:40
Bartók: 15 Hungarian Peasant Songs for Piano, Sz. 71 (BB79)
Work length13:19
1. Rubato
Track length0:48
2. Andante
Track length1:50
3. Poco rubato
Track length0:39
4. Andante
Track length0:58
5. Scherzo (Allegro)
Track length0:51
6. Ballade (Andante)
Track length2:30
7. Allegro
Track length0:39
8. Allegretto
Track length0:30
9. Allegretto
Track length0:13
10. L'istesso tempo
Track length0:25
11. Assai moderato
Track length0:54
12. Allegretto - 13. Poco più vivo - Tempo I
Track length1:02
14. Allegro
Track length0:32
15. Allegro
Track length1:28
Bartók: Improvisations on Hungarian Peasant Songs, Sz. 74, Op. 20
Work length10:51
1. Molto moderato
Track length1:09
2. Molto capriccioso
Track length1:05
3. Lento, rubato
Track length2:19
4. Allegretto scherzando
Track length0:39
5. Allegro molto
Track length0:47
6. Allegro moderato
Track length1:22
7. Sostenuto, rubato
Track length1:46
8. Allegro
Track length1:44
Bartók: Ten Easy Piano Pieces, Sz. 39, BB 51
Work length17:57
Ajánlás (Dedication)
Track length3:29
1. Parazsti nóta (Peasant song)
Track length1:01
2. Lassú vergödés (Frustration)
Track length1:34
3. Tót legények tánca (Slovakian boy's dance)
Track length0:51
4. Sostenuto
Track length1:36
5. Este a székelyeknél (Evening with the Széklers)
Track length2:35
6. Gödöllei piactére leesett a hó (Hungarian folksong)
Track length0:51
7. Hajnal (Dawn)
Track length1:25
8. Azt mondják, nem adnak (Slovakian folksong)
Track length1:18
9. Ujjgyakorlat (Five-finger exercise)
Track length1:32
10. Medvetánc (Bear dance)
Track length1:45
Bartók: Dance Suite, BB 86, Sz. 77
Work length15:07
1. Moderato
Track length3:24
2. Allegro molto
Track length2:00
3. Allegro vivace
Track length2:47
4. Molto tranquilo
Track length2:10
5. Comodo
Track length0:58
6. Finale
Track length3:48
Bartók: Rhapsody, Op. 1
Work length18:50
Bartók: 4 Piano Pieces, BB 27, Sz. 22
Work length26:02
1. Study for the left hand (Tanulmàny Balkèzre)
Track length9:28
2. Fantasia 1 (Abrand 1)
Track length4:59
3. Fantasia 2 (Abrand 2)
Track length3:23
4. Scherzo
Track length8:12
Bartók: Kossuth - Symphonic Poem, BB31 - Marche funèbre for piano (arr.of Tableau 10)
Work length4:51
Bartók: Rhapsody, Op. 1
Work length10:35

Awards and reviews

2011 edition

it remains the classic set for the foreseeable future. Bartok playing doesn't come any better than this - nor does piano recording. Kocsis penetrates to the very centre and soul of this music more deeply than almost any rival. Scrupulous to the composer's wishes, Kocsis can produce power and drama when required, but it also commands a wide-ranging palette and a marvellously controlled vitality.
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