Florent Boffard BARTÓK Racines

Although he is regarded as a major composer of the twentieth century, Bartók himself attached equal importance to his career as a pianist and to his study of folk music. His piano works lie at the intersection of these three activities. The works collected here, performed by the extraordinary French pianist Florent Boffard, were like laboratories for Bartók's stylistic advances; but every bar of them exudes the folklore of Central Europe and the Hungarian composer's love of nature.