Romanian Folk Dances 4, 5 & 6 by Bela Bartok. Joanne Waples is conducting Chamber Strings, one of 11 Sydney Youth Orchestras [ Ссылка ]

Romanian Folk Dances, Sz. 56, BB 68 (Hungarian: Román népi táncok) is a suite of six short piano pieces composed by Béla Bartók in 1915. He later orchestrated it for small ensemble in 1917 as Sz. 68, BB 76.

It is based on seven Romanian tunes from Transylvania, originally played on fiddle or shepherd's flute. The original name for the piece was titled Romanian Folk Dances from Hungary but was later changed by Bartók when Transylvania was annexed to Romania in 1918. It is nowadays available in the 1971 edition which is written with key signatures although Bartok rarely ever wrote key signatures.

This set of dances consists of six movements:

I. Bot tánc / Jocul cu bâtă (Stick Dance)
II. Brâul (Sash Dance)
III. Topogó / Pe loc (In One Spot)
IV. Bucsumí tánc / Buciumeana (Dance from Bucsum)
V. Román polka / Poarga Românească (Romanian Polka)
VI. Aprózó / Mărunțel (Fast Dance)
VII. Aprózó / Mărunțel (Fast Dance)

In this performance Dances 4, 5 and 6 are played.

Béla Viktor János Bartók (March 25, 1881 -- September 26, 1945) was a Hungarian composer and pianist. He is considered one of the most important composers of the 20th century and is regarded, along with Liszt, as Hungary's greatest composer (Gillies 2001). Through his collection and analytical study of folk music, he was one of the founders of ethnomusicology.

Romanian Dances by Bela Bartok is one of three pieces Chamber Strings Orchestra perform at this concert.

Recorded live at the Sydney Youth Orchestra SYO Term 1 Family Concert at the Verbrugghen Hall, Sydney Conservatorium of Music on March 26, 2012.
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