Béla Bartók’s piano music charts a vast expressiverange, from the folksong-inspired Bagatelles andvigorous Burlesques of the early 1900s to thepercussive energy of Szabadban and Allegro Barbaro.
Cédric Tiberghien’s homage to the Hungariancomposer, interspersed with Pierre Boulez’s dozenNotations, also embraces the technical twists andturns of Bartók’s final Mikrokosmos volume.