Bartók Duos Webpage1 - Duos 1 to 5 and 14 (see below)

A portrait of Béla Bartók

Stephane GrappelliHERE is a link to the Wikipedia article on Bartók

Here are recordings of the first five duos:

Duo #1 - Teasing Song: ,

And the violin 2 part to play along with:

Duo #2 Maypole Dance:

And the violin 2 part to play along with:

Duo #3 - Menuetto: ,

And the violin 2 part to play along with:

Duo #4 MMidsummer Song:

And the violin 2 part to play along with:

Duo #5- Slovakian Song: ,

And the violin 2 part to play along with:

Duo #14 - Pillow Dance

And the violin 2 part to play along with:

SLow version to play with:

Finally a video of other duos with a different explanation of how Bartók came to write these duos:

 

 

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