Credits:

Inez Yando, Balazs Szokolay

Description:

While famous as educational music for children, it is also a collection of nationalistic miniatures with a unique sense of rhythm, and these characteristics come to the fore in Yandos simple, unadorned performance. Another distinctive feature is that some pieces are performed with vocal accompaniment or on two pianos, evoking the atmosphere of folk songs.Bla Bartks collection of 153 piano pieces, *Mikrokosmos*, is a milestone in the history of piano music. Utilizing a wide variety of materialsfrom musical syntax and performance technique to rich regional flavors and folk-song derivationsthe collection is arranged in order of increasing difficulty in both technical and musical terms, vividly reflecting the maturation of Bartks own musical world from 1926 to 1939. When asked in his later years about the significance of this title, Bartk replied: *Mikrokosmos* is a series of pieces