3/5. Bartok's passion for collecting and arranging folk songs faltered over a crisis in his own compositional style. In the rapidly changing musical landscape, he stopped composing altogether for a few years and struggled to find his own voice. Donald Macleod looks at Bartok's middle years.
Eight Improvisations on Hungarian Peasant Songs, No 2
Murray Perahia (piano)
Out of Doors, Nos 1, 3 and 6 Joanna MacGregor (piano) String Quartet No 3 Emerson Quartet
Piano Concerto No 2
Zoltan Kocsis (piano), Budapest Festival Orchestra, conductor Ivan Fischer
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