VA - Bartók, Ligeti, Kurtág (2002)

Musical interpretation changes overtime, as does the response it elicits. Undoubt edly the 44 Duos for Two Violins have gained in standing - have perhaps even been ennobled - since great violinists have been programming them in concert. But a further reason these little pieces are listened to differently today - as artworks sui generis - is that many of these miniatures provide such blissful relief from the countless garrulous works of our time. And in their overwhelming lucidity, they also consign both hypertrophic musical actionism and the so-called "new simplicity" to the place they deserve: namely, to the order of fashionable musical trends.

from the attached booklet

Béla Bartók: 44 Duos for Two Violins (1931) (45 tracks, 52:34)
01 Vol 4: XXXXIV "Erdély" tánc (Transylvanian song) 02:12
02 Vol 1: VII Oláh nóta (Walachian [rumanian] song) 00:54
03 Vol 3: XXXV Rutén kolomejka (Rutherian song) 01:03
04 Vol 1: X Rutén nóta (Rutherian song) 01:15
05 Vol 1: XI Gyermekrengetéskor (Lullaby) 01:20
06 Vol 2: XXIII Menyasszonybúcsúztató (Wedding song) 01:21
07 Vol 1: VIII Tót nóta II (Slovak song) 01:14
08 Vol 1: IX Játék (Play song) 00:42
09 Vol 1: XIV Párnás tánc (Pillow dance) 00:47
10 Vol 2: XX Dal (A Rhythm Song) 01:36
11 Vol 3: XXXI Ujévköszöntö IV (New Year greeting) 00:43
12 Vol 3: XXXII Máramorosi tánc (Dance from Máramaros) 00:40
13 Vol 2: XXI Ujévköszöntö I (New Year greeting) 02:19
14 Vol 1: XII Szénagyüjtésior Uj (Harvest song) 01:14
15 Vol 1: XIII Lakodalmas (Wedding song) 01:29
16 Vol 3: XXXIV Számláló nóta (Counting song) 00:57
17 Vol 3: XXXIII Ara táskor (Harvest song) 01:55
18 Vol 2: XIX Mese (Fairy tale) 01:17
19 Vol 3: XXIX Ujévköszöntö II (New Year greeting) 00:54
20 Vol 1: II Kalamajkó (Maypole Dance) 00:41
21 Vol 1: III Menuetto 00:57
22 Vol 3: XXVI "Ugyan édes komámasszony…" (Teasing song) 00:34
23 Vol 3: XXX Ujévköszöntö III (New Year greeting) 00:53
24 Vol 1: I Párositó (Teasing song) 00:54
25 Vol 2: XXII Szunyogtánc (Mosquito dance) 00:32
26 Vol 3: XXVII Sánta-tánc (Limping dance) 00:33
27 Vol 1: VI Magyar nóta I (Hungarian song) 01:02
28 Vol 2: XXV Magyar nóta II (Hungarian song) 00:57
29 Vol 2: XV Katonanóta (Soldiers' song) 01:03
30 Vol 1: IV Szentivánéji (Midsummer Night song) 00:49
31 Vol 2: XVI Burleszk (Burlesque) 01:00
32 Vol 2: XVII Menetelö nóta I (Marching song) 00:50
33 Vol 2: XVIII Menetelö nóta II ((Marching song) 00:53
34 Vol 3: XXVIII Bánkodás (Sorrow) 02:28
35 Vol 3: XXXVI Szól a duda (Bagpipes) 02:05
36 Vol 1: V Tót nóta I (Slovak song) 01:02
37 Vol 3: XXXVI Szól a duda (Bagpipes) 02:07
38 Vol 4: XXXVII Preludium és kánon (Prelude and Canon) 02:51
39 Vol 4: XXXVIII Forgatós (Rumanian Whirling dance) 00:44
40 Vol 2: XXIV Tréfás nóta (Comic song) 00:43
41 Vol 4: XXXXIII Pizziccato 01:13
42 Vol 4: XXXX Oláh tánc (Rumanian dance) 00:50
43 Vol 4: XXXXII Arab dal (Arab song) 01:20
44 Vol 4: XXXXI Scherzo 00:47
45 Vol 4: XXXIX Szerb tánc (Serbian dance) 00:54

György Ligeti:
Ballad and Dance (2 Violin Duos after a Romanian Folk Song) (1949-50) 02:47
46 I Ballad, andantino 01:28
47 II Dance,allegro vivace 01:19

György Kurtág:
48 Ligatura - Message To Frances-Marie, Op 31/b (1973) 02:40

ECM New Series 1729 (2002)