BELA BARTOK: Complete Works for Violin, vol. 3, Violin Sonatas and Rapshodies [CD de audio] Antal Zalai, Josef Balog and Bela ba

The third volume of Béla Bartók's comprehensive violin works presents the two sonatas and the two rhapsodies for violin and piano. Characterized by a very complex writing from the point of view of content and full of technical difficulties, the two sonatas reveal the most austere and rigorous side of Bartók's poetics, while the rhapsodies are impregnated with an intense melody with a flavor of often pleasantly popular, which finds its full expression in a brilliant and especially virtuous style. These four works are masterfully presented to us by Antal Zalai and József Balog, two highly talented Hungarian soloists, who for the first two volumes of this comprehensive have received very laudatory reviews from the specialized press around the world. "A performance imbued with deep expressiveness [...] at the same time captivating, faithful to the author's intentions and very elegant [...] also excellent sound quality [...] warmly recommended" ( Fanfare , United States ) This new Brilliant Classics recording is accompanied by liner notes written by scholar Malcolm McDonald. József Balog, piano