Marc Danel and Gilles Millet

Béla Bartók (1881-1945)44 Duos for Two Violins, Sz. 98 With his 44 Duos for Two Violins, Béla Bartók opens up a fascinating musical laboratory. Composed in 1931, these short pieces reflect his profound interest in the folk music of Central and Eastern Europe. Drawing on traditional Hungarian, Romanian and Slovak melodies, Bartók reshapes them into a distinctive musical language. Beneath their apparent simplicity lies a world full of rhythmic and harmonic innovation, in which he explores the violin’s sonic potential to the full.