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Bartók World Competition

Repertoire of the Bartók World Competition & Festival - Violin Competition 2017

30 November 2016

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Video Qualification

Candidates have to join to their application form good-quality video recordings (audio and video) of recent performances by themselves of the following works:

  •    one movement from J. S. Bach: Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin, BWV 1001-1006
  •    one piece from Paganini: 24 Caprices for Solo Violin, Op. 1
  •    one piece from the following list:
    •    Bartók: Romanian Folk Dances, BB 76 or
    •    Bartók: Hungarian Folk Dances for Violin and Piano (from Piano Pieces for Children Vols. 1-2. arranged by Tivadar Országh and Béla Bartók, 1934) or
    •    Bartók: Andante in A major for Violin and Piano, BB 26b

 

Preliminary

Candidates shall perform two pieces:

  •    at least one movement from:
    •    Bartók: Rhapsody No. 1, BB 94 or
    •    Bartók: Rhapsody No. 2, BB 96c
  •    at least one movement from J. S. Bach: Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin, BWV 1001-1006

Total duration is maximum 18 minutes.

 


 

Semi-final

Candidates shall have three options:

Option A:

  • Bartók: Violin Sonata No. 1, BB 84

Option B:

  • Bartók: Sonata for Solo Violin, BB 124

Option C:

  • one movement from
    • Bartók: Violin Sonata No. 1, BB 84 or
    • Bartók: Violin Sonata No. 2, BB 85 or
    • Bartók: Sonata for Solo Violin, BB 124 or
    • Bartók: Violin Sonata, BB 28 (1903)
  • any virtuoso piece from the attached list
  • first movement from any of the sonatas from the attached list

                  Total duration is maximum 30 minutes.

 

Final

Finalists will perform one concerto with the Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra:

  • Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 3 in G major, K. 216 or
  • Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 4 in D major, K. 218 or
  • Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 5 in A major, K. 219

 

Grand Final

Finalists will perform one concerto with the Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by János Kovács:

  • Bartók: Violin Concerto No. 1, BB 48a or
  • Bartók: Violin Concerto No. 2, BB 117 or
  • Beethoven: Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 61 or
  • Brahms: Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 77 or
  • Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 35

 

Virtuoso pieces for the Semi-final

  • Chausson: Poème, Op. 25
  • Ernst: The Last Rose of Summer
  • Ginastera: Pampeana No. 1 for Violin and Piano, Op. 16
  • Paganini: Variations on “I Palpiti”, Op. 13
  • Paganini: Le Streghe, Op. 8
  • Paganini: Variations on duet “Nel cor più non mi sento” from Paisiello's L'amor contrastato
  • Ravel: Tzigane
  • Saint-Saëns: Havanaise, Op. 83
  • Saint-Saëns: Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso, Op. 28
  • Saint-Saëns–Ysaÿe: Caprice d'après l'étude en forme de valse
  • Sarasate: Carmen Concert Fantasy, Op. 25
  • Schubert: Rondo in B minor, Op. 70 (D. 895)
  • Bizet–Waxman: Carmen Fantasy
  • Wieniawski: Polonaise in D major, Op. 4
  • Wieniawski: Polonaise Brillante in A major, Op. 21
  • Wieniawski: Faust Fantasy, Op. 20
  • Wieniawski: Variations on an Original Theme, Op. 15
  • Ysaÿe: One of the Sonatas for Solo Violin, Op. 27
  • Ysaÿe: Poème élégiaque, Op. 12

 

Sonatas for the Semi-final

  • Mozart: Violin Sonata No. 32 in B-flat major, K. 454 (Bärenreiter)
  • Mozart: Violin Sonata No. 26 in B-flat major, K. 378/317d (Bärenreiter)
  • Mozart: Violin Sonata No. 35 in A major, K. 526 (Bärenreiter)
  • Beethoven: Violin Sonata No. 1 in D major, Op. 12/1 (Henle)
  • Beethoven: Violin Sonata No. 2 in A major, Op. 12/2 (Henle)
  • Beethoven: Violin Sonata No. 3 in E-flat major, Op. 12/3 (Henle)
  • Beethoven: Violin Sonata No. 4 in A minor, Op. 23 (Henle)
  • Beethoven: Violin Sonata No. 5 in F major, Op. 24 (Henle)
  • Beethoven: Violin Sonata No. 6 in A major, Op. 30/1 (Henle)
  • Beethoven: Violin Sonata No. 7 in C minor, Op. 30/2 (Henle)
  • Beethoven: Violin Sonata No. 8 in G major, Op. 30/3 (Henle)
  • Beethoven: Violin Sonata No. 10 in G major, Op. 96 (Henle)
  • Brahms: Violin Sonata No. 1 in G major, Op. 78
  • Brahms: Violin Sonata No. 2 in A major, Op. 100
  • Brahms: Violin Sonata No. 3 in D minor, Op. 108
  • John Corigliano: Violin Sonata
  • Debussy: Violin Sonata in G minor
  • Dohnányi: Sonata in C-sharp minor Op. 21
  • Enescu: Violin Sonata No. 3, Op. 25
  • Fauré: Violin Sonata No. 1 in A major, Op. 13
  • Franck: Violin Sonata in A major
  • Janáček: Violin Sonata
  • Lutosławski: Partita for Violin and Piano
  • Poulenc: Violin Sonata
  • Prokofiev: Violin Sonata No. 1 in F minor, Op. 80
  • Prokofiev: Violin Sonata No. 2 in D major, Op. 94a
  • Ravel: Violin Sonata No. 1 in A minor (“Sonate posthume”)
  • Ravel: Violin Sonata No. 2 in G major
  • Schubert: Violin Sonata in A major, Op. 162 (D. 574, “Grand Duo”) (Henle)
  • Schumann: Violin Sonata No. 1 in A minor, Op. 105
  • R. Strauss: Violin Sonata in E-flat major, Op. 18
  • Stravinsky: Divertimento for Violin and Piano (after The Fairy's Kiss)
  • Shostakovich: Violin Sonata n G major, Op. 134