This is a short four-movement suite written as a composition exercise for my professor at the RCM, Bryan Kelly. I was working on Bart�k's Suite Op 14 at the time with my piano professor, and my composition very much reflects a similar style, hence the title, somewhat intended in the manner of Tchaikovsky's 'Mozartiana'. Bart�k's Suite ends with the slow movement, mine comes second, and the motoric drive of his third movement, in my suite, makes use of typically Bart�kian additive-rhythms.

This is a short four-movement suite written as a composition exercise for my professor at the RCM, Bryan Kelly. I was working on Bart�k's Suite Op 14 at the time with my piano professor, and my composition very much reflects a similar style, hence the title, somewhat intended in the manner of Tchaikovsky's 'Mozartiana'. Bart�k's Suite ends with the slow movement, mine comes second, and the motoric drive of his third movement, in my suite, makes use of typically Bart�kian additive-rhythms.

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Midi
I think Bartokiana interesting,but playing the Midi lasts very long before the beginning,eand then after a very long time only the first 4 accords are heard,then silence,although the clock is running, there is the strange durata-date of 17:02 :24:20 or something like this,on yhe RealPlayer-Logo,and notated remains Getmidi. Other pieces are playing well ,why this not? H.Wallin

Hans Wallin

A worthy tribute
Philip R Buttall's Bart?kiana is a worthy tribute to a great composer. The intricate bart?kian idiom is well-absorbed and deployed, including Bart?k's very personal approach to the piano. The initial impression of pastiche is deceptive, since this is definitely an original work, based on a 4-note cell or motive that Buttall varies and reworks in his own distinctive way. My only reservations concern the rhythm in the first movement--might this not be better notated in a smaller basic unit than common time? (just asking)--and the somewhat abrupt scale of the last movement. To be sure, this brevity, too, is a very bart?kian gesture. But I certainly felt there was more to be said with these (wonderful) ideas, so perhaps following the master here wasn't an ideal choice. Saying "I wish there were more!," however, obviously presumes "..because I like it so much!" The material of the movement, in other words, and of the piece itself, is compelling, and much recommended. MW Morse

Michael Morse