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 Re: Why the Bartok Contrasts Calls for Two Violins
Author: Ken Shaw ★2017
Date:   2011-05-24 13:52

Bassie -

I've read that Bartok was nearly starving after he came to the U.S. Szigeti wanted to give him a commission that would occupy his mind and supply some income, and he and Goodman got together to do it. Since the Contrasts was written for Goodman, he pretty much had to play the premiere and make the first recording.

I think Bartok calls for two clarinets because the passage in question lies better on the A [plus, as Ed P. says, it calls for low E on the A clarinet, which isn't usually available on the Bb]. In 1938, Goodman had only recently branched out into classical music. When you listen to the original recording, you hear that he was pressed hard by the difficulty of the music. He gets through, but not with the panache of Szigeti and Bartok. Compare, for example, the clarinet and violin cadenzas. Goodman plays his accurately but without much excitement. (For that, listen to Drucker.) Szigeti, who was one of the great virtuosos, sails into his cadenza at high speed and brings it off triumphantly.

Ken Shaw



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