☰ Ostinato

The Childrens and Female Choruses were composed in a single burst of creative activity at the zenith of Bartóks career, in the summer of 1935, between such masterpieces as the String Quartet No. 5 and the Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta. These short choral pieces are based on folk texts that Bartók further polished and stylized. The music, however, is wholly the composers own, although it frequently includes motifs, rhythmic formulas and line structures reminiscent of Hungarian folk songs. Both editions contain nine of the two-part pieces of the set, transcribed idiomatically but faithfully for descant and treble recorders, respectively.

Sisällysluettelo:

1. To my homeland
2. Candle song
3. Don't leave me!
4. The fickle girl
5. Song of Ioneliness
6. Beadbaking
7. Hussar
8. Had I never seen you
9. Canon