Sunday Classics: As some of you guessed, our composer -- and pianist -- is Béla Bartók

Béla Bartók (1881-1945)

by Ken

Here are last night's quiz audio files with proper identifications. Tomorrow we'll be talking a bit about Bartók. As I expect most of you guessed, the orchestral arrangement of the piano original is by the composer, and so is the performance of the piano original.

BARTÓK: "Bear Dance"
(No. 10 of Ten Easy Pieces, Sz. 39 (1908)

Béla Bartók, piano. Dutch Radio broadcast, Hilversum, Jan. 31, 1935

BARTÓK: "Bear Dance"
(No. 2 of Hungarian Sketches, Sz. 71 (1931)

Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Fritz Reiner, cond. RCA/BMG, recorded 1958

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