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Release Date: 2024-02Label: Naxos
℗ & © 2024 Naxos Rights (Europe) Ltd. Made in Germany. Comes in a standard-size jewel case with a clear tray. 6pp fold-out booklet has notes in English, plus a detailed tracklist. Playing time 55:10.Recorded 28-29 March 2023 at the Fazioli Concert Hall, Sacile, Pordeonone, Italy.
Tracks 1-4 published from manuscript at The Morgan Library, Robert Owen Lehman Collection, New York (performance version prepared by Goran Filipec).
Tracks 5-8 published by Editio Musica Budapest, Z. 14773, ed. Péteri Judit, Chily Prodigy Composers, Vol. 1 (2012)
Tracks 9-56 published by Editio Musica Budapest. These are the parts of the “Bartók-Reschofsky Piano Method“ that were composed by Bartók.
The detailed tracklist of the “Method” (tracks 9-56) have these chapter headings (supplied by Leslie Russell):
• “Legato and Non-legato Exercises” (tracks 9-12)
• “Wrist Exercises” (13-14)
• “Playing with Hands Together” (15-16)
• “Ledger-lines” (17-20)
• “Development of the Accuracy of Touch” (21)
• “Playing Staccato” (22)
• “Staccato and Legato Alternating” (23)
• “Exercises with Non-adjacent Fingers” (24-25)
• “Accented and Unaccented Beats of a Bar” (26-31)
• “Two-note Chords” (32)
• “Two Parts with One Hand” (33-36)
• “Tempo (Indication of Speed)” (37)
• “Increasing the Hand-span (Sixths)” (38)
• “Changing Fingers on One Key” (39-40)
• “Whole Tones and Semitones” (41-43)
• “Scales” (44-45)
• “Syncopation” (46-47)
• “The Harmonic Minor Scale” (48-49)
• “Playing Chords” (50-56)