ALBUM BFAN Link - https://bfan.link/bartokosmos

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Etsuko Hirose, piano • Quatuor Elysee :
Vadim Tchijik, violon (plages 1 à 3) - Pablo Schatzman, violon (plages 4 à 7) - Andrei Malakhov, alto - Igor Kiritchenko, violoncelle

07 - Bartok - Quintette - Sz23 - Poco A Poco Piu Vivace

06 - Bartok - Quintette - Sz23 - Adagio

05 - Bartok - Quintette - Sz23 - Vivace

04 - Bartok - Quintette - Sz23 - Andante

03 - Catoire - Quintette - Op28 - Allegro Con Spirito

02 - Catoire - Quintette - Op28 - Andante

01 - Catoire - Quintette - Op28 - Allegro

The oratorio was written for the 50th anniversary of the International Kodály Society and was first performed on 6 March 2024 in Matthias Church in Budapest. The piece was performed by Csilla Csővári, a soprano soloist, and the University of Pécs Choir and Orchestra, which was conducted by Professor Tamás Lakner.

Andras Gabor VIRAGH - Pange lingua

SIX DANCES

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Microscopia

A fairly daft little piece, based on one of Bela Bartok's "Romanian Dances".

Bart, OK?

Mutige Neuinterpretation_ Clara Barry verbindet Bartók mit Jazz _ WDR 3 Hörstoff – neue Klassik-Alben (22.11.2023)

Ching Juhl performed a live recital at Indiana University in 1988.

Bartok 8 Variations on 2 Themes for Solo Viola - 4th Movement

Eleven Ősz a Bartókon, Jáki Móni - Manna Délelőtt Péter Petrával 2025. 09. 23.

András Gábor Virágh is one of the most sought after composer and organist of his generation.
Mr. Virágh has been the titular organist of the St. Stephen’s Basilica, Budapest, also assistant lecturer for forms and analysis, and solfeggio at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music and the board member of the Hungarian Composers’ Union.
His biggest recent achivements are the two national organ –, three domestic and three international composition awards, including first prize of the Los Angeles international composition competition in 2006 (where there were no other prizes), the Oradea international composition competition in 2008, and the ISA (International Summer Academy, Austria) international composition competition in 2012 (where there were no other prizes). In 2007/08 he won the National Scholarship, and for 2010/11 the Annie Fischer Performers Scholarship. In 2009 he recieved the Superior Student of the Faculties of Sciences award of the University of Debrecen – which is an award won by 8 students out of 30.000.

In 2011 he awarded the Junior Prima Prize, which is the highest honour of the young generation. Mr Virágh graduated in 2013 at the Liszt Academy with a degree in Music Composition as the student of prof. Gyula Fekete, and he won the Composition Prize of the „Aurora Musis Amica” foundation and the Composition Prize of the Hungarian Academy of Arts. In 2015 and in 2017 Mr. Virágh awarded the Benedek Istvánffy composition prize and in 2017 he was honoured with the annual Ferenc Erkel Composer Award. The Metamorphosis for 14 players for ensemble was composed in 2017 at the invitation of the Warsaw Autumn Contemporary Music Festival, which celebrates its 60th anniversary. In 2018, the composition was aired more than 50 times by the radio channel France Musique.

In 2020 Mr. Virágh has awarded the Classical Composition of the Year award for his composition Gregorian notes for viola and organ.
Mr. Virágh’s compositions are published by the Ostinato Musikverlag (Germany), by the Norsk Musikforlag (Norway), by the Editions BIM (Switzerland) by the Kontrapunkt Music Publisher (Budapest) and by the EMB (Editio Musica Budapest). As an organist and as a composer he has performed in several countries in Europe in the UK, in Israel and in the USA as well.

E-mail: a.g.viragh@gmail.com
Web: www.viragh.hu/en/
YouTube: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZjL_1JR8IiSd5QxsHUuWrkPc1kz3F0vF&si=Y0TsqCRo1wHs27WZ

Minty The Pedantic Pedestrian is a graphic artist and web designer by persuasion, an experimental electronic musician and comedic wordsmith by inclination. He has been doing THIS SORT OF THING for more years than you'd care to believe... in fact, since before the internet was merely a twinkle in somebody's eye.

Minty's more obvious musical influences include Eno (and/or Fripp), Krautrock (particularly Faust and Can), Frank Zappa, pre-DSOTM Pink Floyd, '70s dub, Miles Davis (especially in his Electric Voodoo Space Funk period), Mahler, Stravinsky, not to mention the whole gamut of '70s Prog-Rock (I told you NOT to mention it!)

The following people have testified that The Pedantic Pedestrian is a dirty collaborator: Rabbit Show Reject, Evil Demented Bunny, Rabbithole Sam (The Glass Virgins), Rabid Sow Reject, Mervyn Purviss (Absolute Zero), Johnson's Gridling Band, The Future of Rock &amp; Roll?, Teaset Body Review, Blue Wails On Blit Street, TV By Tears, Ken Dead &amp; The Dodgy Men, Art Ratz, The Christmas Trees, The Male La La's, Stevie Chunder &amp; The Fake Vegetable Reichstag (Magic Cow), The Unconventional Choir of Smelly Nurses, The Darkening Scale (Renaldo &amp; The Loaf / The Music Is Taboo), Purblind Rabbit, JoXfield ProjeX, DJ Ben Espiritu, CC:PP (Cries of Calliope), Cloudland Blue Quartet, Tim Webb (Net Prophet)... and anyone else who'll have me!

Based in the outskirts of Chiba, I produce a wide range of tracks—from instrumental and abstract hip-hop to dark, minimal, and experimental beats.
Unbound by genre, I focus on groove, texture, and spatial atmosphere, building tracks daily in my home studio.

My musical influences include Green Assassin Dollar, Budamunk, Bugseed, DJ Krush, KREVA, and Mark Rae.

I began my career as a DJ in 1995 at the age of 17, initially drawn to deep, hypnotic techno.
Later, I became immersed in London’s underground, funk-driven tech house scene surrounding the WIGGLE movement, where I performed with a focus on minimal, swing-heavy grooves.

Today, I carry that sensibility into the realm of hip-hop, breakbeats, and leftfield rhythms—crafting instrumental works that explore the expressive power of space and restraint.

Starting March 20th 2025, the adventure of Caricatunes begins. Every day a new discovery, a playful little melody, or a quirky tune sent out into the world. The idea? At least one minute of music each day that brings a smile, takes an unexpected turn, or simply offers a joyful moment of chaos...

DJ Bootsie (Ugar / BBE Records - Budapest, Hungary)

DJ Bootsie, the  Hungarian interpreter of turntables and sound samples, provides an exact, up to the beat, and in-depth account of his given psychological and musical state every 5 years. His debut album The Silent Partner was released in 2004 while we had to wait for his next one, entitled Holidays in the Shade, till 2009. Another half-decade later, his third album is to be released this fall. While the new record takes a plunge into the dark depths of a familiar musical universe and psyche, it also opens a path for something new.

  His debut album The Silent Partner was released on the Ugar label in 2004. At that time, Bootsie had laid all his cards on the table and since then he continues to work in the same vein: drawing on electronic beats, urban Hip Hop, Hungarian folk music and culture in general, jazz and experimentation, contemporary music and sound painting, film score, while also expanding and breaking the boundaries of traditional music genres. Bootsie’s predominantly instrumental pieces are characterized by epic structures and intimacy. His compositions are stations of an inward journey, created out of self-discipline and self-monitoring. Besides the Hungarian fans of the genre, his album also caught the attention of audiences abroad. Music by Bootsie was featured in such prominent places as the Buddha Bar Compilation (Vol. 7) , DJ Cam-My playlist, Mercedes Benz Mixtape, Marc Cain, Vogue Germany, CSI tv series, etc.)
His second (and third) solo album Holiday in the Shade was released under the renowned British label BBE in 2009. Featuring two New York MCs (Vast Aire and O.C.), the album received great reviews from all over the world, further increasing Bootsie’s prestige. 

Predominantly preferring to compose and produce music alone, Bootsie also performs his pieces live. Initially he played solo, then with his Trio; in recent years, there are two formations accompanying him: a quartet of saxophone, drums, guitar, keyboards and a turntable, or the acoustic big band with violin and wind instruments. The former is more traditional by predominantly playing Hip Hop and jazz while the latter also puts emphasis on contemporary elements of film scores and folk music.

His talent is recognized beyond his fans. Sometimes he receives exciting requests from surprising sources. He composed music for the 2011 film titled Ticket by Oscar-winner animator Ferenc Rófusz. In 2012, he revised two movements of Ferenc Erkel’s historic opera László Hunyadi commissioned by the Hungarian State Opera; success led to further commissioned work to rearrange two Wagner pieces, Götterdämmerung - Twilight of the Gods and Das Rheingold - The Rhine Gold. In the same year, his track Horseriders Toward The Abyss was used for opening the fireworks at the St. Stephen’s Day celebrations of Hungary. 


As a solo DJ, as well as with his live band of various setups from trio to eleven-piece small big-band, he played at a myriad of clubs, concert venues and festivals in Hungary as well as abroad (in Latvia, Russia, Romania, Slovakia, Czechia, Austria, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, France, the UK, USA, Spain, Portugal and China).

The Allegro Identity album (4th) live debut was recently held at the Palace of Arts, this was his third performing return to this holy shrine of top venues of his homecountry.

Clara Barry is Americano-Swedish artist based in Paris (France) and Lausanne (Switzerland)
Violinist, singer, arranger and composer, looking for collaborations with all sorts of artists 
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