Various Bartok Editions

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VARIOUS BARTOK EDITIONS Bela Bartok. I. Konzert fur Klavier und Orchester. Revidierte Ausgabe (1998). Vienna: Universal Edition, [1998], c1954. [Pref. (Peter Bartok) and commentary (M. Koren) in Ger., Eng., Fr., p. i-xxx; notes on percussion, p. xxxiii-xxxv; instrumentation, 1 p.; score 189 p. ISMN M-00805797-7; Philharmonia no. 541. Duration, ca. 23 min. euro28.95.] Bela Bartok. 14 Bagatellen fur Klavier, Op. 6. Neue, revidierte Ausgabe herausgegeben von Peter Bartok. Budapest: Editio Musica Budapest, c1998. [Score, p. 3-39; editor's notes in Eng., Ger., Hung., p. 40-47. ISMN M-080-00934-5; Z. 934. $13.95.] Bela Bartok. Allegro Barbaro for Piano Solo. Edited by Peter Bartok. Homosassa, FL: Bartok Records, 2002. [Pref. 2 p.; score, 7 p. ISMN M9012001-1-1; BR 703. Duration, 2 min., 35 sec. $7.] Bela Bartok. Fifteen Hungarian Peasant Songs for Piano (1914-17). Corrected and edited [by Peter Bartok]. Homosassa, FL: Bartok Records, 2002. [Score, 17 p.; index of the melodies, 2 p.; notes, 2 p. ISMN M9012001-4-2; BR 702. $13.] Bela Bartok. Ten Hungarian Songs for Voice and Piano (1906). Homosassa, FL: Bartok Records, 2002. [Pref. and notes (Peter Bartok), 3 p.; score, 19 p.; texts, p. i-v; MS facsim (bw BR 705. $19.] Bela Bartok. liebeslieder for Voice and Piano (1900). Facsimile of the manuscript, with an essay by Ferenc Bonis. Homosassa, FL: Bartok Records, 2002. [Note (Peter Bartok), 1 p.; pref. (F. Bonis), p. i-v; facsim. (bw BR801. $23.] Bela Bartok. The Husband's Grief for Voice and Piano = A ferj keserve. Homosassa, FL: Bartok Records, 2002. [Pref. in Eng., Hung. (Peter Bartok), 2 p.; score, p. 2-5; notes, 1 p.; MS facsim. (bw BR 701. $11.] Bela Bartok. W. A. Mozart, Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra in E\> major, K. 365, Cadenzas by Bela Bartok. Fair copy and facsimile of the manuscript. Homosassa, FL: Bartok Records, 2000. [Introd. (Ferenc Bonis), 2 p.; score, 8 p.; notes to MS facsim. (Peter Bartok), 1 p.; facsim. reprod. (bw Romanian Folk Dances; Romanian Christmas Carols; Fifteen Hungarian Peasant Songs; Suite, op. 14; Etudes, op. 18; Improvisations on Hungarian Peasant Songs, op. 20. In the absence of a critical edition of Bela Bartok's opera omnia (a project for which Hungarian musicologists have done a great deal of preparatory work but which, for various reasons, has yet to materialize), we must welcome the publication of individual works based on a careful revision of all available sources. In the last few years, several such editions have been published by Editio Musica Budapest, Universal (Vienna), and particularly Bartok Records -the company founded by Peter Bartok, the composer's younger son, in Homosassa, Florida. Actually, Peter Bartok is behind all but one of the editions under review here, which include one for Editio Musica Budapest (the Fourteen Bagatelles) and one for Universal (the First Piano Concerto). Making use of his extensive archive of his father's manuscripts, Peter Bartok, assisted by Nelson Dellamaggiore, has begun to revise and correct the editions currently in use; he has also published a number of shorter works that have never before been available in print. Intensely active especially in the last ten years, he has most notably produced the facsimile edition of the Viola Concerto's manuscript (Bartok's last, unfinished work) in 1995 (reviewed by Vera Lampert Deak in Notes 53, no. 3. [March 1997]: 988-90), and a fascinating book of memoirs, My Father, in 2002 (reviewed by Lynn Hooker in Notes 59, no. 3 [March 2003]:635-37). Four of Peter Bartok's new editions are critical revisions of well-known compositions. …