Béla Bartók's Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion, composed in summer 1937 on a commission from Paul Sacher and premièred in Basel in January 1938, is incontestably one of the supreme creations of modernmusic.
This publication, with introductory essays by Felix Meyer, Robert W. Wason, Lászlo Vikárius, and Wolfgang Rathert, presents two major handwritten sources for this work from the holdings of the PaulSacher Foundation: the draft score, which offers a fascinating glimpse into the sonata's genesis, and a 'whiteprint' of the fair copy, which contains additions from Bartók and differs substantially from thedefinitiveversion at the end of the development section in movement 1.
The volume also contains, on an enclosed CD, the radio recording of 1940, with Bartók and his wife Ditta Pásztory on the piano parts, aswell as a new recording of the sonata in its 'original' form, played by the Bugallo-Williams Piano Duo with percussionists Matthias Würsch and Christian Dierstein.
| Format | Score |
| Media | CD, Sheet Music |
| Publisher | Boosey and Hawkes |
| Contributors | Bartó k, Bé la(Composer) |
| ISBN | 9781784545048 |
| ISMN | 9790060135866 |