COMPOSERS: Bartok
LABELS: EMI
WORKS: Mikrokosmos
PERFORMER: Georges Solchany (piano)
CATALOGUE NO: 695 5702
Despite Solchany’s insights, Bartók’s masterly pedagogical series of 153 piano pieces were never intended to be heard as a cycle, so grouping up to 23 pieces on each track and omitting titles makes this set unusable. Christopher Dingle