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Through the Years

We launch this week’s album feature on the birthday of Hungarian composer Béla Bartók (1881–1945). While a few original Bartók compositions appear on Cedille albums by violinist Jennifer Koh, the most unusual work of his in our catalog is a transcription of a fugue by Gottlieb Muffat (1690–1770) included on Russian émigré pianist Dmitry Paperno’s (1929–2020) valedictory album, Through the Years. In his program notes, Paperno (writing in the third person under the acronym/pseudonym “Raymond Tipper”) explains:

In the mid-1920s, Bartók turned to transcribing Baroque music as a way to develop further his own piano style and extend his concert repertoire. As a genius composer and, in this instance, co-author, Bartók projected his own pianistic personality onto little-known clavier music of two centuries earlier. Bartók adapted the fugue into a more open concert piece with gradually increasing dynamics, up to triple-forte toward the end, and heavier, organ-like textures (octaves and chords). In his interpretation, however, Mr. Paperno chooses to conclude the piece as it begins, by pulling back at the very end and returning to Muffat’s simpler keyboard textures and more serene dynamics.

You can hear Paperno’s remarkable interpretation HERE.

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