I just ran across this very nice performance of a unique piece by Bartók, the Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion. What is so unusual about this performance is that everyone is playing from memory, something you rarely see in chamber music, especially of this sort!
What is interesting about this piece is that he takes the idea of a sonata for piano and expands it to two pianos and then hugely expands the timbral range by using percussion to extend the sounds of the pianos.
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