Bartok - Piano Sonata, Sz.80; BB 88

Composer: Béla Viktor János Bartók (25 March 1881 - 26 September 1945)
Work Title: Piano Sonata, Sz.80; BB 88
Performer: Jenő Jandó (piano)
0:00 - I. Allegro moderato
4:28 - II. Sostenuto e pesante
9:00 - III. Allegro molto
The Piano Sonata BB 88 (Sz.80) is a piano sonata by Hungarian composer Béla Bartók, composed in June 1926. 1926 is known to musicologists as Bartók's "piano year", when he underwent a creative shift in part from Beethovenian intensity to a more Bachian craftsmanship.
The work is in three movements, with the following tempo indications:
It is tonal but highly dissonant (and has no key signature), using the piano in a percussive fashion with erratic time signatures. Underneath clusters of repeated notes, the melody is folklike. Each movement has a classical structure overall, in character with Bartók's frequent use of classical forms as vehicles for his most advanced thinking. Musicologist Halsey Stevens finds in the work early forms of many stylistic traits that became more fully developed in Bartók's "golden age", 1934-1940.
Bartók wrote Dittának, Budapesten, 1926, jun. at the end of the score, dedicating it to Ditta Pásztory-Bartók, his second wife. A performance generally lasts around 15 minutes. Bartók wrote the duration as around 12 minutes and 30 seconds on the score.
Bartok wrote this piece with an Imperial Bösendorfer in mind, which has extra keys in the bass (97 keys in total). The second movement calls for these keys to be used (to play G♯0).
Bartók had previously written a piano sonata in 1896, which is little known.
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piano_S...)
Source videos:
1st movement: • Béla Bartók - Piano So...
2nd movement: • Béla Bartók - Piano So...
3rd movement: • Béla Bartók - Piano So...

[@pondererofpointlessdreams5029]

My parents: "Still not good enough, start from the beginning and play it 13x faster with your pinky toe"

[@gdvxperr9376]

Hah I had parents like “NOT GOOD AT ALL START AND REDO IT FIVE TIMES WITH YOUR NOSE”

[@xk2014]

That gives me an idea

[@erika6651]

Are your parents Jewish or Asian?

[@pippo4571]

@publicguy8227i had it with my thoughts

[@wai470]

Emotional damage

[@cordeiropascoal]

8:01 low notes out of standard 88-key piano range

[@tackontitan]

Unless the studio used a Bösendorfer Imperial

[@adigozelov-enjoyer]

Read the description...

[@PentameronSV]

0:00 - I. Allegro moderato
4:28 - II. Sostenuto e pesante
9:00 - III. Allegro molto

[@wallk03]

Imagine if you hear this in the middle of the night while no one is at the piano

[@romeobortolani1907]

Absolute masterpiece.

[@lddsurfer5325]

This song can make you bleed if you didn't know

[@PurplePuff69]

@@lddsurfer5325how??

[@jalittrell]

@@PurplePuff69 it’s such a hard piece that blood comes from the players fingers after playing it for so long

[@PurplePuff69]

@@jalittrell that just can’t happen can it..

[@plaguster]

Amazing

[@lakerzbb]

amazing

[@Asi1939]

The 3th movment is goldn

[@that_one_person4645]

Odd piece for sure, but hauntingly beautiful

[@CatkhosruShapurrjiFurabji]

8:01 but there aren't any G#0s in any 88 key piano.

[@xk2014]

I turned it to 2x speed and it sounds like a horror movie soundtrack since it's so complex
It's actually kinda funny it reminds me of a two year old throwing a fit (no offense to the creator this sounds like it took a really long time to write)

[@johannes6277]

Its the hardest piano piece that can be played

[@xk2014]

Yeah

[@KazBodnar]

epic bartok moment

[@1andonly_Platon]

Play it at 2x speed and listen the the very first 30 seconds, it sound like some sort of music from a video game 🤣

[@terezagroves2261]

3:20 is my fave part

[@Admiral_Razorbeard]

Ahwe man I really thought that the first part was mystic cave

[@xsefyd]

This sounds like a piece that would be playing during a bar fight in a western movie.

[@MerakiArtDump]

Reminds me of jaws lol

[@justred.]

Oh h god

[@quit473]

This will be the hardest music on a piano

[@PentameronSV]

Sorabji and New Complexity composers like Ferneyhough would beg to differ.

[@sharkay3955]

First, nile red. Then, nile blue, and nile green. Now, nile orange

[@quit473]

@@sharkay3955 usg

[@quit473]

@@sharkay3955 steokw

[@quit473]

@@sharkay3955 help

[@itscrazy3382]

Charles Ives Vibe

[@arcane_heaven]

Mmm blood

[@louieangeloaclan7227]

Tha5s so danger song

[@picachugirl2036]

Wasnt this song in a legend of zelda game? Sounds like some of the enemy music

[@zanderundetected9182]

No, I’ve played all the games and this isn’t an enemy theme. It’s pretty close though, gotta admit that :)

[@chubs7768]

It’s close to botw guardian theme because it’s also a piano and had similar soundings but no it is not from zeldas

[@p-y8210]

What was he cooking?

[@whatgivesit]

World War 2

[@IcyBune]

This feels like a low quality fnf mod or something

[@mocchikkidraws]

The guy I was listening talk so fast i cant find it in the first search

[@matchingcandy91]

Thats Aylex Thunder

[@Dikin-Baus]

this the mf that made someone’s fingers bleed?

[@Perryz7]

correct!
(Bartok second piano concerto)

[@Hello19277]

The girl who made her hands bleed😨-

[@uR_L0caL_WeIRdO]

Here fingers were bleeding during the song

[@W0NDERSH0]

No it was a condition that made fingers bleed but it wasn’t bc of the peace, but I thought that too

[@ilyasozurakov2393]

HUNGARIAN DRILL

[@dullbladecurry8080]

Pov your asian

[@alonely_corncob6316]

I like your pfp 👌

[@dullbladecurry8080]

Thx

[@Samuelbagchasin]

Pov your racist

[@dullbladecurry8080]

Pov u can't take a joke

[@Muchacho1994]

@@dullbladecurry8080 I can't take a joke

[@hayatara.]

Schizophrenia OST

[@mattporter1692]

Never been a fan of Bartok. Just horrid sounding atonal garbage to me.

[@GUILLOM]

Okay matt

[@BongoCatEdits]

Too complex for you

[@sulfurx777]

Everything except some of the last parts are garbage.