Utwory na płycie:

• CD01 TK 01 Bela Bartok Violin Concerto No 2 BB 117 I Allegro non troppo
• CD01 TK 02 Bela Bartok Violin Concerto No 2 BB 117 II Andante tranquillo
• CD01 TK 03 Bela Bartok Violin Concerto No 2 BB 117 III Allegro molto
• CD01 TK 04 Bela Bartok Violin Concerto No 1 BB 48a I Andante sostenuto
• CD01 TK 05 Bela Bartok Violin Concerto No 1 BB 48a II Allegro giocoso

Violin Concerto No. 2 (1938)
Violin Concerto No. 1, Op. Posth. (1907-08)

About the Bartok concertos: No 1 was written around the years 1907/8 and was dedicated

to the violinist Stefi Geyer, with whom Bartók was in love.

Geyer could not reciprocate Bartók’s feelings and rejected the concerto.

Both kept copies locked in a drawer.

It was only published in1956, after the composer’s death.

The concerto was later championed by David Oistrakh.

For many years, Isaac Stern with Leonard Bernstein conducting was the classic recording.

No.2 (written in 1937/8) was dedicated to the Hungarian violin virtuoso, Zoltán Székely.

The work was premiered at the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam on March 23, 1939 with Zoltán

Székely, violin and Willem Mengelberg conducting the Concertgebouw orchestra.

It had its United States premiere in Cleveland, Ohio in 1943, with Tossy Spivakovsky and

the Cleveland Orchestra under Artur Rodziński.

Bartók heard this performance and described it as “first rate”.

Spivakovsky later gave the New York and San Francisco premieres of the work.