Bartok: Mikrokosmos Volumes V-VI Piano Solo Musician Chairs and Bill Evans comping behind

and Bill Evans comping behind the soloist

Completed in 1864

These markings especially draw on publications of the sonatas edited by Joachim’s pupils Leopold Auer and Ossip Schnirlin as well as those by Brahms’ associate Franz Kneisel

Eleven attractive arrangements including: Beauty and the Beast * Ding-Dong

Bartok: Mikrokosmos Volumes V-VI Piano Solo Musician Chairs and Bill Evans comping behindBartks Mikrokosmos is one of the milestones in the pedagogical piano repertoire and yet it is also far more than a classical piano primer. These 153 piano pieces, organised in ascending order of difficulty, engage not only with technical aspects of piano playing, but also with the fundamentals of composition from Ostinato, Free variations and Imitation and inversion concerning compositional technique, to programmatic ideas as in From the diary of a