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Bartok: Solo Piano Works (Box Set)
Bela Bartok, June de Toth
Bartok: Solo Piano Works (Box Set)
Genres: Dance & Electronic, Special Interest, Classical
 
  •  Track Listings (19) - Disc #1
  •  Track Listings (49) - Disc #2
  •  Track Listings (37) - Disc #3
  •  Track Listings (68) - Disc #4
  •  Track Listings (27) - Disc #5


     

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CD Reviews

An insult to the Great Magyar
Thomas J. Kotarba | great barrington, MA | 10/24/2007
(1 out of 5 stars)

"June de Toth is an extravagant butcher of the keyboard. Her renditions of Bartok are clamorous, metronomically ludicrous, and player piano-like! No feeling, no touch, and most of all no creativity, Toth's playing is robotic and mechanical--melody simply does not exist for her, and everything becomes a jumble of sounds. even Penderecki and Feldman have melodies, or some form melodic distinction. Compotent musicians, not just artists, will play all music, however modern, clamorous, or dissonent with some concept of melodic or thematic highlight. I would say that she plays the piano like a drunken peasent plays the fiddle or acordian. But, that would be cruel to the folk-perofrmer, who has more imagination and spirit that this ignorant pig. for anyone who likes Bartok, please, PLEASE, DO NOT BUY TOTH RECORDINGS! Schiff, Kocsis, Anda, Sandor. hell, even Jando's OK. All these performers and artists give justice to one of the 21st century's great composers! June de Toth makes Bartok sound hideous and annoying."