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Béla Bartók. I. Konzert für Klavier und Orchester. Revidierte Ausgabe (1998). Vienna: Universal Edition, [1998], c1954. [Pref. (Peter Bartók) and commentary (M. Koren) in Ger., Eng., Fr., p. i–xxx; notes on percussion, p. xxxiii–xxxv; instrumentation, 1 p.; score 189 p. ISMN M-008-05797-7; Philharmonia no. 541. Duration, ca. 23 min. i28.95.]
Béla Bartók. 14 Bagatellen für Klavier, Op. 6. Neue, revidierte Ausgabe herausgegeben von Peter Bartók. Budapest: Editio Musica Budapest, c1998. [Score, p. 3–39; editor's notes in Eng., Ger., Hung., p. 40–47. ISMN M-080-00934-5; Z. 934. $13.95.]
Béla Bartók. Allegro Barbaro for Piano Solo. Edited by Peter Bartók. Homosassa, FL: Bartók Records, 2002. [Pref. 2 p.; score, 7 p. ISMN M-9012001-1-1; BR 703. Duration, 2 min., 35 sec. $7.]
Béla Bartók. Fifteen Hungarian Peasant Songs for Piano (1914–17). Corrected and edited [by Peter Bartók]. Homosassa, FL: Bartók Records, 2002. [Score, 17 p.; index of the melodies, 2 p.; notes, 2 p. ISMN M-9012001-4-2; BR 702. $13.]
Béla Bartók. Ten Hungarian Songs for Voice and Piano (1906). Homosassa, FL: Bartók Records, 2002. [Pref. and notes (Peter Bartók), 3 p.; score, 19 p.; texts, p. i–v; MS facsim (b&w), 11 p. ISMN M-9012001-3-5; BR 705. $19.]
Béla Bartók. Liebeslieder for Voice and Piano (1900). Facsimile of the manuscript, with an essay by Ferenc Bónis. Homosassa, FL: Bartók Records, 2002. [Note (Peter Bartók), 1 p.; pref. (F. Bónis), p. i–v; facsim. (b&w), 21 + 3 p. ISMN M-9012001-2-8; BR 801. $23.]
Béla Bartók. The Husband's Grief for Voice and Piano = A férj keserve. Homosassa, FL: Bartók Records, 2002. [Pref. in Eng., Hung. (Peter Bartók), 2 p.; score, p. 2–5; notes, 1 p.; MS facsim. (b&w), 2 p. ISMN M-9012001-0-4; BR 701. $11.]
Béla Bartók. W. A. Mozart, Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra in E♭ major, K. 365, Cadenzas by Béla Bartók. Fair copy and facsimile of the manuscript. Homosassa, FL: Bartók Records, 2000. [Introd. (Ferenc Bónis), 2 p.; score, 8 p.; notes to MS facsim. (Peter Bartók), 1 p.; facsim. reprod. (b&w), 4 p. ISBN 0-9641961-1-5. $11.] [End Page 1088]
Béla Bartók. Allegro Barbaro and Other Short Works for Solo Piano. Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, c1998. [Scores, 102 p. ISBN 0-486-40110-3. $9.95.] Reprints of editions published by Universal Edition, 1918–22. Contains: Allegro barbaro; Romanian Folk Dances; Romanian Christmas Carols; Fifteen Hungarian Peasant Songs; Suite, op. 14; Etudes, op. 18; Improvisations on Hungarian Peasant Songs, op. 20.

In the absence of a critical edition of Béla Bartók's opera omnia (a project for which Hungarian musicologists have done a great deal of preparatory work but which, for various reasons, has yet to materialize), we must welcome the publication of individual works based on a careful revision of all available sources. In the last few years, several such editions have been published by Editio Musica Budapest, Universal (Vienna), and particularly Bartók Records —the company founded by Peter Bartók, the composer's younger son, in Homosassa, Florida.

Actually, Peter Bartók is behind all but one of the editions under review here, which include one for Editio Musica Budapest (the Fourteen Bagatelles) and one for Universal (the First Piano Concerto). Making use of his extensive archive of his father's manuscripts, Peter Bartók, assisted by Nelson Dellamaggiore, has begun to revise and correct the editions currently in use; he has also published a number of shorter works that have never before been available in print. Intensely active especially in the last ten years, he has most notably produced the facsimile edition of the Viola Concerto's manuscript (Bartók's last, unfinished work) in 1995 (reviewed by Vera...

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