Hats off, Ladies & Gentlemen, the great Tasso Janopoulo at the piano !) An Egyptian pianist of Greek descent, and a naturalised French citizen (16 October 1897 in Alexandria - 1970 in Paris), he collaborated with some of the greatest musicians, such as Henryk Szeryng, Jacques Thibaud, Paul Tortelier, Pierre Fournier, Ninon Vallin , and--drumroll.... Eugene Ysaye-- as a piano partner! Orphaned as a young child, he played the piano in brasseries, later on traveling to Belgium to study with Arthur De Greef while continuing to earn his living playing. Presented to Eugene Ysaye by Greef, he became the violinist's accompanist. In 1923 in Brussells he met certain Jacques Thibaud , touring with him that year, and continuing his collaboration until Thibaud's death in 1953. Later he accompanied other major violinists (Milstein, Menuhin, Francescatti, Szeryng) and singers (Flagstad, Vallin).

The phrasing is out of this world, but let’s cheer the accompanist too. Masterful from both musicians

Szeryng created such great sound with seemingly minimal effort.

On #5 -- Szeryng gave the pianist a run for the money -- and the pianist dug in to hold on to the insane rhythm. Absolutely wonderful to watch!

The master at work. What an inspiration!

Best performance of this piece i ever heard! Szeryng and the pianist in total symbiosis with Bartók.

The original version was among the first works by Bartok that I learned. This work really gravitates toward this version. Szeryng pushes it to the edge of exaggeration, but he convinces. A great work. Everyone knows that.

The second movement brings tears to my eyes every time.I fucking WEEP for humanity...Its beauty...its sadness....its wonderful being alive and able to feel...to Love...to fight....to scream at the firmament to the gods "PLEASE HELP US TO GET IT TOGETHER DOWN HERE AND STOP LAUGHING AT US!!!"

Henryk Szeryng is Henryk Szeryng!

Bartok shines when played by this great violinist and great pianist! I can even see Romania clearly and well. May I revisit there again some day soon.

fantaaaastic!!! musicianship and phrasing in the flagolet section.... yes!!!

A Priceless Gemm!

0:33 there are a lot of beautiful sounds❤

BRAVO M. SZering!! M. Enescu avez aprie vous bien.

coming into 3' 40" love that interpretation

Made me sit through the entire piece and listen to every note, amazing!

Try to listen to this as a conversation, leave your perfection behind and feel the humanly connection between two person... Rushing or not, no one is a running mashine/metronome and shouldn’t be also... The comments here shows how we got so blind to emotions and beauty in the classical music community. Everything is not about perfection or repeated interpretations.

Гениальный Шеринг вновь поражает... Один из лучших скрипачей столетия!

Oh, to have a bow arm like that!!! (And left hand too, of course!!)

Last but best song of album

What an entertaining performance! I really liked Szeryng's "tempo markings are for pussies" phrasing, particularly in the 3rd and 4th dances, as well as the "what's the tempo?" guessing game the performers played in the last dance. Thanks for posting this video.

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Yes, this video is better. Found the older edition about two years ago. You also included the name of the violinist with whom I wasn't familiar. But who's the pianist? I studied piano and clarinet, and played these Romanian Dances on both instruments. The dances are one of my favorite works of Bartók and of any music, and inspired me to go into ethic music along with the music of Zoltan Kodaly, Katchaturian and many others. I'm of Central European and Balkan ancestry so the music is in my body and soul all the time. This is a great recording of great music by a great composer performed by a great artist who is new to me. I'm sure the program is vintage and been around for years, but from my point of view, it's just out. Thank you for sharing this performance and artist. Sincerely, Phillip Jones in Downey, California

Check out the look Szeryng gives the accompanist after a wrong note on the piano kzfaq.info/get/bejne/l5-RjbhkmtnTaXU.html It's sort of "Shall we stop after that blooper ? No, it's going really well" Fantastic performance - thanks for posting

Who is the pianist ?

The poor pianist...

God he’s rushing ahead of the pianist and feels like for a lot of this the pianist is trying to catch up, he’s a better violinist than I could ever dream to be but I don’t really his performance of this