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Just listened to a Würtz miscellany on Spotify this afternoon

Posted by Chris from Lafayette (A) on November 13, 2014 at 18:14:01

In Reply to: Hey, Chris from Lafayette posted by rbolaw on November 13, 2014 at 08:08:14:

I heard most of the Bartok album you mentioned, except for the Music for Children tracks (I don't know those pieces), a couple of pieces (Bartok and Martinu) she recorded with cellist Timora Rosler, two Liszt Concert Etudes, and the first couple of movements from the Beethoven Quintet for piano and winds. You're right: she does a fine job with all of this repertoire. I might prefer my Bartok a bit drier (à la Kocsis), but she makes a good case for her more colorful performance too. To me, her general approach was even better suited to the Liszt Etudes (Waldesrauschen and Gnomenreigen). I also suspect I may have been missing some of her depth of tone by listening on Spotify - who knows?

BTW, another Bartok babe is the Bulgarian pianist, Anna Stoycheva, who plays "Out of Doors" very well indeed on the following "calling card" album (on the Gega label - the booklet cover shows her communing with a tree):



And just to re-visit the subject again, yes, all those works on the Bartok album are either tonal or modal (often the latter).

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