Bartók on film

[@davidbaise5137]

Thank you for this. And to see Mr. Bartok smiling so beamingly and wide - with his family, is wonderful.

[@marcocresci]

His smile is so enlightened. Such a genius. Thanks.

[@pianoguy1955]

Most of the pictures that we have of Bartok show a stern visage. This shows the open smile that might have encouraged peasants to open up to him and let them and record their songs.

[@JSheridanEntilZha]

I know little of his music but his portraits have always fascinated me. Such intensity in his eyes and softness in his traits... sometimes genius is directly expressed by the face. Have read once memoirs of the hungarian writer Sandor Marai. He called him the greatest hungarian of his time...

[@sarmhurts]

He looks so warm! Almost kindly. Still pictures never seem to capture that about him. Thank so much for posting!

[@alexandrebeauharnais6849]

This is the first time I saw him play. His second movement of Piano Concerto No. 3 is of incomparable beauty. Thank you for uploading.

[@MorganHayes_Composer.Pianist]

glad people had the presence of mind to film as well as photograph Bartok as this is (inevitably) so much more telling. in addition there's an interview with him where you can hear his excellent command of English about a year before he died. He picks his words very carefully.

[@thomastereszkiewicz2241]

do you have the link?

[@MorganHayes_Composer.Pianist]

@@thomastereszkiewicz2241 kzbin.info/www/bejne/fpOafmlue7KiobM

[@MorganHayes_Composer.Pianist]

@@thomastereszkiewicz2241 Yes :)kzbin.info/www/bejne/fpOafmlue7KiobM

[@MorganHayes_Composer.Pianist]

@@thomastereszkiewicz2241 just type' Bartok interview english' and you should find it

[@jjp6975]

merci .merci beaucoup. pendant plus de 20 ans , tous mes élèves débutants ont commencé le piano avec les "mikrokosmos"

Amazing to see this, thanks a lot for sharing!

[@adrianwhite782]

Thank you very much for this. I have heard recordings of him playing before but was not aware there was any film and I glad to see it here. I fail to understand why some people (including my own brother) regard Bartok to be a composer of music that is difficult to listen to and not enjoyable. Much of his music is very beautiful and though some of it is quite challenging it is well worth the challenge. The first record I ever bought as a teenager with my own money I had saved up was a box set of his string quartets. This was in the early 70's. I remember a couple of years later I convinced a friend to listen to the fifth quartet while he was tripping on acid. He listened to the whole thing start to finish on headphones very intently and told me afterwards he liked it very much. Of course one doesn't need to be on drugs to like such music and I am not recommending anyone to try listening this way.

[@Barbapippo]

Really moving, thanks for uploading.

[@anhducduong0105]

Wow, so glad to find this

[@robbyaceto4467]

this is so overwhelming… thank you.

[@zoranmilenkovich]

❤Thank You all who created this splendid work!🌈🎹🎻

[@pianomaly9]

Thanks for uploading this, Jack. Elegaic. Long ago I briefly met a nephew of Tibor Serly, and have a current friend who once stayed in Ernst Bloch's cabin.

[@meisterwue]

Amazing, exciting .....❤now I will listening to the 3rd piano concert.....moving , indeed, the best term to say it ❤

[@gerasimosmakris8664]

The photos augment the depth of music and vice versa. Exquisite! Thank you.

[@philipthonemann2524]

Thanks for this touching video!

[@r.i.p.volodya]

I am SO pleased that someone thought to capture footage of Bartok playing the piano, something that was never done for Rachmaninoff!

[@PiotrBarcz]

Rach didn't want to be recorded ironically.

[@r.i.p.volodya]

@@PiotrBarcz If that's true then he shouldn't have had the choice. He's part of cultural history and there should have been a record for future generations.

[@MrInterestingthings]

He was recorded hundreds if times. He was not filmed. Is that Bartok in 1st pf. Concerto? I cant believe we have film . His eyes. He had a physical beauty. He knew he was special he thought he was a finer pianist than Backhaus won 2nd placr . H I s Scarlatti a shows a master.​@PiotrBarcz

[@spb7883]

Can you please post a link to the black and white film so we can see how it originally looked?

[@PiotrBarcz]

@@spb7883 That is the original black and white film. If it was colorized just import it into a video editor and desaturate it.

[@tomaxi007]

Clear eyes and a very sympathique aura. He died in New York, where he could not find any warm atmosphere. He died as a poor man.

[@ţťþtţtt]

thank you!!

[@danilodanilomandarim8069]

❤

[@barrymoore4470]

Precious footage of a great composer and musician, though to my mind it would have been preferable had the piano performance not been colorized.

[@JackGibbonsHQ]

It has now come to my attention that this silent film is likely NOT colorized. Apologies for any doubt I may have inadvertently spread, my initial information coming from a single, unverified, source.

[@barrymoore4470]

@@JackGibbonsHQ That fact would make the footage all the rarer, possibly a unique photographic record of the great man in color.

[@herbchilds1512]

A complex, vulnerable, genius, little understood or appreciated in America. Who are the people at 3:17 ?

[@georgenorris2657]

really interesting to see him in film. I wonder how much he smoked and whether it was one reason for his early death?

[@richardresseguier1]

Comment cela se fait-il qu'il soit si raide au piano: Un problème de santé?

[@spb7883]

Please post a link to the original black and white film so we can see how it originally looked.

[@JackGibbonsHQ]

It has now come to my attention that this silent film is likely NOT colorized. Apologies for any doubt I may have inadvertently spread, my initial information coming from a single, unverified, source.

[@МуродТанжихолов]

Is there a video with his voice somewhere on KZbin?

[@zsadon]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/a6LdYZdmhdemp9Esi=hWSQQYl7Wc7emjPo

[@SFFanClub]

Who is the pianist in the slow movement of Piano Concerto no.3 (and who is the conductor) ?

[@BurningSky9]

Nelson Freire.

[@fredphoto5551]

Ma hantise était que la prof ee piano de mes enfants leur (nous) inflige du Bartok !

[@nuberojadom001]

Why?

[@davidpetter6756]

What an odd fear to have.

[@chrisschilling7585]

Any piano teacher worth their salt should encourage students to tackle Bartok. Many of the pieces from the middle volumes of 'Mikrokosmos', for instance, or the folksong transcriptions in 'For Children', are quite approachable. The footage of the composer at the piano is remarkable. It shows something of the energy and power this physically slight, diminutive man could bring to music.

[@oriraykai3610]

I used to torture my family with "Diary of a Fly" in high school. 😆

[@MrInterestingthings]

Inglict indict insidious impict impert imgucluckt

[@papagen00]

Why did everyone smoke so much in those days?

[@JackGibbonsHQ]

Almost every person also wore hats too in those days

[@wardropper]

The success of the corrupt advertising industry.

[@zsadon]

@@wardropper it was a centuries old tradition, much older than industrial advertising

[@wardropper]

@@zsadon I know. But the corrupt advertising industry is also centuries old, even if it did have another name back then. Let’s call it “profit”...

[@vivvpprof]

That first clip is obviously sped up waaay too much.

[@wardropper]

No it isn’t. It’s a good tempo, and Bartók was an outstanding pianist.

[@JackGibbonsHQ]

@vivvpprof: Actually the EXACT opposite is the case: I slowed down the video by a fragment (the original was running too fast in any case) so it would match the tempo of Bartók's 1929 Allegro barbaro audio recording.