Marc Danel & Gilles Millet

Béla Bartók (1881-1945) 44 Duos for two violins, Sz. 98 Composed in 1931, the 44 Duos for two violins by Béla Bartók testify to the composer's deep interest in the popular music of Central and Eastern Europe. Inspired by traditional Hungarian, Romanian, or Slovak melodies, these short pieces transform folkloric material into a musical language of great rhythmic and harmonic inventiveness. Behind their apparent pedagogical simplicity is revealed a true laboratory of writing where Bartók explores the expressive and contrapuntal possibilities of the violin