I love playing Bela on the Piano this is the first time I have heard his music on a banjo...which makes sense since his focus was on Folk Music from Hungry.
This is so fantastic on so many levels. Bartok's piano pieces are hardly ever performed, and this banjo arrangement is beautiful and infused with love and truth. Béla and Abigail have wonderful rapport (hm wonder why?). It's great to see Abigail busting loose in the piece they segue to.
Just lost all of my sheet music collection, including Bartók arrangements for guitar, in the Hermit’s Peak Fire last spring. This performance has-as Abigail and Béla performances have managed to do so many times before-rekindled interest, and a desire to rebuild that lost asset. My thanks to them for every instance of such inspiration over the decades. Time to finally visit the UNT music library and book stores to browse the sheet music offerings. Oh, wait. Maybe I can find them online now!
security at the airport almost coat me my lyrics book, which will be very difficult to replace. ii got off the plane e and ran All the way bak to security and they had it omgOSH
there's a story in there... i'd bet you could make some hay out of the effort to recreate your tragically incinerated collection. Wishing you strength and courage from NYC. Hope that counting your blessings also helps.
Good luck to you. I have been lucky all my life, especially making it through cancer, chemo and open heart surgery. After initially struggling with depression and defeatism, although I consider myself a cancer veteran rather than survivor, I found that these adversities bring with them opportunities, too. The forest is burned, but in the forest's case, the burning turns out to be beneficial in some ways. The forest is renewed, sometimes with new species that contribute to its diversity and richness.
After Bela played his jazzy ragtime and Abligail started her song... I'm amazed that anyone could remember the whole thing.. I couldn't tell were the verse..if u will was to a chorus..if there was one .. Wow 👍
@@guickdotto4552 It's a well known Hungarian folk tune (mostly with the beginning 'Szegénylegény vagyok én') - which still doesn't exclude the possibility that it exists in the Slovak tradition as well.
To be accurate, this is an original COMPOSITION Bartók wrote from the ‘transcribed’ piece. If Fleck and Washburn were to perform the transcription or their rendition of the original folk tune Bartók’s family would have no say in the matter. No irony here; makes total sense.
I recognized “Flapperette” from my time learning banjo from Bela’s cassette tape series. There’s like an 8 fret stretch in the middle…in Bela’s words “not user-friendly”
Guitarist here, I’ve been teaching myself clawhammer for a couple of months. All it takes is repetition. Set up a metronome on a slow tempo and play bum-ditty’s on a loop until it starts to make sense. Of course there’s waaay more to it than that but that’ll get your foot in the door at least!
I have found in frailing getting accurate with my right hand I play a melody hitting each individual string ,doing this it becomes easy to find most of the chords in the melody. I want to try 3 finger style but a grand child broke my thumb pick .im almost 62 with a back ground in sheering .stiff old hands but I love it.
I'm still a fan of that recording of the Villa-Lobos concerto for harmonica, Urania (I also see Naxos). I used to listen to it along with that Louie-Louie Variations on mandolin; it doesn't realize that banjos would work for it, yet too (hopefully?). That last is a long slide to its out, but what a slide... :)
I love playing Bela on the Piano this is the first time I have heard his music on a banjo...which makes sense since his focus was on Folk Music from Hungry.
Well, Hungary. That's another country.
Abby played circles around Bella. Didn't know that was even possible! Must be love.🥰🎶💕Thanks for posting. Really enjoyed this.
It’s beautiful on the banjo. Brings out the sadness
This is so fantastic on so many levels. Bartok's piano pieces are hardly ever performed, and this banjo arrangement is beautiful and infused with love and truth. Béla and Abigail have wonderful rapport (hm wonder why?). It's great to see Abigail busting loose in the piece they segue to.
Superb
WOW... outstanding...!!! Sooooooo please this video popped up in my video feed.
Just lost all of my sheet music collection, including Bartók arrangements for guitar, in the Hermit’s Peak Fire last spring. This performance has-as Abigail and Béla performances have managed to do so many times before-rekindled interest, and a desire to rebuild that lost asset. My thanks to them for every instance of such inspiration over the decades.
Time to finally visit the UNT music library and book stores to browse the sheet music offerings.
Oh, wait. Maybe I can find them online now!
Bartok and guitar go well but not easy, good luck.
security at the airport almost coat me my lyrics book, which will be very difficult to replace.
ii got off the plane e and ran All the way bak to security and they had it omgOSH
there's a story in there... i'd bet you could make some hay out of the effort to recreate your tragically incinerated collection. Wishing you strength and courage from NYC. Hope that counting your blessings also helps.
Good luck to you. I have been lucky all my life, especially making it through cancer, chemo and open heart surgery. After initially struggling with depression and defeatism, although I consider myself a cancer veteran rather than survivor, I found that these adversities bring with them opportunities, too. The forest is burned, but in the forest's case, the burning turns out to be beneficial in some ways. The forest is renewed, sometimes with new species that contribute to its diversity and richness.
We’re gonna see them in Athens, Ga on the 19th!! Can’t wait!!
After Bela played his jazzy ragtime and Abligail started her song... I'm amazed that anyone could remember the whole thing.. I couldn't tell were the verse..if u will was to a chorus..if there was one .. Wow 👍
WOW!!!! How have I never seen/heard this video before?
STUNNING!!!!
Ironic that his family wouldn’t allow this as the tunes were likely transcribed by Bartok from Eastern European folk music.
First melody I recognise from his collection of tutorial pieces derived from Slovak folk tunes.
@@guickdotto4552 It's a well known Hungarian folk tune (mostly with the beginning 'Szegénylegény vagyok én') - which still doesn't exclude the possibility that it exists in the Slovak tradition as well.
To be accurate, this is an original COMPOSITION Bartók wrote from the ‘transcribed’ piece. If Fleck and Washburn were to perform the transcription or their rendition of the original folk tune Bartók’s family would have no say in the matter. No irony here; makes total sense.
holy moly! Good stuff, great to hear this!
Bay- ya- !
I recognized “Flapperette” from my time learning banjo from Bela’s cassette tape series. There’s like an 8 fret stretch in the middle…in Bela’s words “not user-friendly”
I had no idea Bartok wrote pieces for banjo. Great music, great musicians.
Outstanding! I believe Bela's banjo is tuned to GDGB-G Low.And octave below the regular tuning, on a special instrument made for these purposes.
close it's a fifth lower so its cGCEG
i love claw hammer so much too bad my brain is wired to play 3 finger maybe one day i can branch out
Guitarist here, I’ve been teaching myself clawhammer for a couple of months. All it takes is repetition. Set up a metronome on a slow tempo and play bum-ditty’s on a loop until it starts to make sense. Of course there’s waaay more to it than that but that’ll get your foot in the door at least!
Think of your hand like a fish. Take it out of the water, and let it flop about.
I have found in frailing getting accurate with my right hand I play a melody hitting each individual string ,doing this it becomes easy to find most of the chords in the melody.
I want to try 3 finger style but a grand child broke my thumb pick .im almost 62 with a back ground in sheering .stiff old hands but I love it.
Really lovely
Wonderful.
Those lines from Béla were used in another of his pieces. Abigail also is pretty terrific in this piece.
Can anyone enlighten me as to which Bartók piece they played? (Would love to hear it in the modus operandi)
Bela will take on any style!
Does anybody know the name of the original Bela Bartok piece ?
"Quasi Adagio" from "For Children". Check out the original, worth it
I'm still a fan of that recording of the Villa-Lobos concerto for harmonica, Urania (I also see Naxos). I used to listen to it along with that Louie-Louie Variations on mandolin; it doesn't realize that banjos would work for it, yet too (hopefully?). That last is a long slide to its out, but what a slide... :)
I think Abigail brought Bela a more regular rithm :)
I recognized his brilliance a long time ago. She's a great picker, too!
Very beautiful
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Bill maher
The sound is terrible, interesting song though
Well it is just a audience member so you can’t expect perfect sound
If you think that sound is terrible, wait until you hear fiddles!
Ridiculous.