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Bartok: String Quartet No.2, 2nd Movement (Solo Piano Reduction)

Recorded on December 13th, 2024. This is my favourite string quartet of all time. Just kidding, slightly off: it's actually Béla Bartok's String Quartet No.3. However, out of all 6 of his string quartets (which I've been enjoying since 2018), through my investigation, only String Quartet No.2 is reasonably transcribable and playable for solo piano while maintaining the original spirit and counterpoint of the work. All the others are physically extensive and out of range (chords are too wide, note repetitions require ridiculous finger arrangements, etc.). Even with 2-piano or 4-hands, it'd be challenging. So, lucky for me, this one just barely meet the criteria for solo playability. And because it's on the brink of being unplayable, you can be assured that the kinds of technique executed in this is unconventional, extreme, and insane. This actually makes me sweat while playing, which hasn't happened for a long time. Unlike the Prokofiev string quartet transcription I posted last week, I made an actual piano-transcribed score for this because it's far too fast to be reading off the original string quartet score. However, I will not be distributing it for a some period of time but may post some sneek-peeks as community posts on this channel. Also, unlike as well, I omitted a lot more notes for this transcription than the Prokofiev for playability, but I was clever about it obviously and ensured that overtones compensated for missing notes and textures were not too thinned by missing notes. That's why, for the prestissimo ending, I could have played a non-chordal RH to make it easy, but that would've thinned the texture too much, so I did a hybrid approach mixing octaves and single notes, despite that making it astronomically harder to play at the required speed. I actually spent nearly a month preparing this, though it was sporadically on and off because I also transcribed 5 others (now 6 others) and sometimes this transcription was just so challenging I wanted to give up on it. There are certain passages that made my fingers ache, e.g. the prestissimo ending and certain other places that involve very large chords. But I persevered and got through it and now the classical music world has got this epic recording 😎. This transcription is arguably either the most or second most technically challenging of the 7 I've made so far. If you thought this was brilliant, there's going to be more to come! Btw, I also recorded the first movement of this string quartet and have the video ready, but I may post it later since it's not as exciting but I really like the first movement regardless. The third movement is not suitable for piano because of all the long-held notes that dissipate almost immediately. Oh, one more thing, the trill at 7:03 "in the RH" was added in during editing because I wanted to include it but there was no physical way to play it with everything around it going on. But that's all in terms of post-recording modifications. All piano works I've recorded:    • All Full Recordings   At time of recording, Eric is a full-time software engineer working in Big Tech and AI, graduated from the University of Waterloo, Computer Science major. My goal through my channel is to bring vitality, meaning, philosophical/spiritual depth, emotional evocation, and captivating narrative to underappreciated and unconventional music that captures the human experience to its fullest potential. @musicforever60_official on IG:   / musicforever60_official   #piano #music #classicalmusic