Petite Suite (Bartók)

Petite Suite, Sz. 105, BB 113 is a reduction for piano of six of Bartók's 44 Duos for Two Violins, arranged by the composer in 1936.

Structure

This six-movement work is a collection of excerpts from the 44 duos above mentioned. The movement list is as follows:

I. Lassú (slow tune), which comes from No. 28: Bánkodás (sorrow)
II. Máramarosi tánc (Wallachian dance), which comes from No. 32: Máramarosi tánc (dance from Máramaros)
III. Forgatós (whirling dance), which comes from No. 38: Forgatós (Romanian whirling dance)
IV. Pengetós (quasi pizzicato), which comes from No. 43: Pizzicato
V. Oroszos (Ruthenian dance), which comes from No. 16: Burleszk (burlesque)
VI. Dudás (bagpipes), which comes from No. 36: Szól a duda (bagpipes)

Notable recordings of the piano reduction include:

Piano Solo	Record Company	Year of Recording	Format
Jenő Jandó	Naxos Records	2005	CD^[1]

↑ "Track list from the CD 8.554718 from the Naxos catalogue". Hong Kong: Naxos Digital Services Ltd. 2005. Retrieved July 27, 2011.

Béla Bartók

Operas	Bluebeard's Castle

Ballets	The Miraculous Mandarin The Wooden Prince

Concertante	Piano Concerto No. 1 Piano Concerto No. 2 Piano Concerto No. 3 Viola Concerto Violin Concerto No. 1 Violin Concerto No. 2 Rhapsody No. 1 Rhapsody No. 2

Orchestral works	Concerto for Orchestra Dance Suite Divertimento for String Orchestra Kossuth Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta

Chamber music	44 Duos for Two Violins Contrasts Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion Sonata for Solo Violin String Quartet No. 1 String Quartet No. 2 String Quartet No. 3 String Quartet No. 4 String Quartet No. 5 String Quartet No. 6

Choral works	Cantata Profana

Piano compositions	Allegro barbaro Eight Improvisations on Hungarian Peasant Songs Fifteen Hungarian Peasant Songs For Children Mikrokosmos Out of Doors Petite Suite Piano Sonata Rhapsody, Op. 1 Romanian Christmas Carols Romanian Folk Dances Slovak Dance Sonatina Suite, Op. 14 Two Romanian Dances, Op. 8a

Arrangements	Hungarian folksongs for voice and piano

Collaborations	Homage to Paderewski

Named for Bartók	Bartók (crater) Béla Bartók Music High School

Related articles	Hungarian folk music Magyar Rádió Musical cryptogram Neoclassicism Night music Polymodal chromaticism Suite paysanne hongroise Triptych

Lists Compositions Solo piano String quartets

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