Béla Bartók (1881-1945) - Sonata for two pianos and percussion

[@LeslieHoward1811]

Splendid playing of a wonderful piece! Thank you!

[@neilpregozen1970]

They really GOT the spirit of the piece.

[@Jeff-wb3hh]

A superb performance! Much better than other performances I'd heard on KZbin and better recorded too. BRAVO!

[@michaeltierra6388]

Perhaps the most exciting music ever composed and this is a superb performance.

[@neilpregozen1970]

Are you Michael Tierra, the herbalist?

[@leo47443]

Molto bravi,bravi anche i tecnici del suono e i registi video. Many thanks.

[@snowcarriagechengcheng-hun3454]

Thanks for uploading!

[@jean-robertraviot7047]

Superb rendition of this soooooo difficult piece! Bravi! Truely admirative!

[@andrearodigari4840]

One of the best performances ever of this master piece. Bravissimi.❤

[@ibish9513]

22:50 (other parts are similar too, but this one is straight up identical or near-identical and very noticeable) Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta (the last part of both musics are similar kind of I think)

[@philipthomas7918]

A fine performance of a late Bartok masterpiece, that‘ s sadly neglected. It was also part of a great opening concert in Psappha’s new season.

[@muslit]

It's not really neglected, and written in 1937, it's not a late work like the 3rd piano concerto, the concerto for orchestra, the sonata for solo violin, or the viola concerto, all written in the 40's.

[@dajwalsh]

Essentially a quartet for percussion, this work of genius and passion is played with great sensitivity by 4 beautiful musicians. I kept hearing echoes of Villa Llobos' Guitar Concerto, probably with both Bach and forest murmurs as the common thread. Are Hungarian forests rain forests? Watching the connection between these 4 playing as 1 was like watching a string quartet that had played together for decades. The only other time I have seen the melodic strengths of "regular" percussion combined with the percussive strengths of the piano was watching the Chick Corea trio play a few years ago. Saw a youtube of Stephen Drury playing an Ives Concerto recently - what an amazing musician! But thanks to all 4 for sharing this much-too-short masterpiece, I wanted more!

[@laszlo-bencsik]

Yes, the sound of the woods is really there, especially in the second movement. Not the rainforests, but the Central European forests, in the case of Bartók, the wilderness of the Carpathians mostly resonates.

[@bertcarter6176]

This is simply splendid! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

[@nadiiatishkova8841]

Bravo!!

[@colinhargreaves5597]

Fantastic performance

[@jiaxuli1013]

Such an insanely difficult piece! In light of its devilish melody, wouldn't the pianists go insane after practicing it for too long?

[@josefhussek790]

Genial! Das Werk ebenso wie seine Interpretation!

[@kararajsoltszittya8615]

remek lett

[@markpritchard5737]

Wonderful performance by dedicated players! Such a pity that online playback robs music of its dynamic subtleties - particularly evident in this piece where dynamic subtlety (and extravagance) is so important. ff, pp and ppp are lost in the translation.

[@lewis-op5ui]

13:48

[@lewis-op5ui]

20:11

[@ryuki1103]

20:12 25:32

[@maximuspaz4995]

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