Jerome Lowenthal, Piano

Bela Bartok (Composer), Jerome Lowenthal (Performer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Performer: Jerome Lowenthal
• Composer: Bela Bartok
• Audio CD (June 21, 2011)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Pro-Piano Records
• ASIN: B000007SBM
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #253,660 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com essential recording

Jerome Lowenthal is an underrated American pianist and Bartók player. He has long deserved the opportunity to make a recording like this, and he makes the most of it. His Out of Doors is one of the most devastatingly powerful versions of that masterpiece ever recorded, and he powers his way through the Études with tremendous elan. The Bagatelles and Mikrokosmos selections are all sharply characterized and capture the Hungarian folk flavor. The recorded sound conveys the pianist's tonal color and range very well. In fact, everything about this recording is excellent; too bad there isn't more of it, but better 56 minutes of excellence than 80 minutes of mediocrity. -- Leslie Gerber

Product Description

Jerome Lowenthal, Piano
Béla Bartók: 14 Bagatelles, 3 Etudes
Béla Bartók (1881-1945):

14 Bagatelles, Op.6
Molto sostenuto
Allegro giocoso
Andante, Grave (Hungarian folk song)
Vivo (slovak folk song), Lento
Allegretto mlto capriccioso
Andante sostenuto
Allegretto grazioso, Allgro
Allegretto molto rubato,
Rubato
Lento funebre ("She is dead...")
Waltz ("My dancing sweetheart...")

Out of Doors
With Drums and Pipes, Barcarolla, Musettes, Night's Music, The Chase
From "Mikrokosmos" Volume 6
No. 140 Free Variations
NO. 141 Subject and Reflection
No. 148 Six Dances in Bulgarian Rhythm (1)
No. 149 Six Dances in Bulgarian Rhythm (2)
No. 150 Six Dances in Bulgarian Rhythm (3)
No. 151 Six Dances in Bulgarian Rhythm (4)
No. 152 Six Dances in Bulgarian Rhythm (5)
No. 153 Six Dances in Bulgarian Rhythm (6)

Etudes, Op.18
Allegro molto, Andante sostenuto, Rubato-Tempo giusto

Bartók: 14 Bagatelles, Op.6, "Waltz

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars a wealth of Bartok, April 13, 2001

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This review is from: Jerome Lowenthal, Piano (Audio CD)

An amazing compendium of Bartok piano works. Lowenthal gives a truly virtuoso playing here that left me sitting in the middle of the room just listening (unlike me). I love the performance on this in part because it really helped me to have a greater appreciation of Bartok and the subtleties and beauty of his music. On lesser recordings you miss out on how amazing his music can be.