Mesto – Vivace
Mesto – Marcia
Mesto – Burletta
Mesto – Molto tranquillo
The Center Bancroft String Quartet
Ekaterina Tarasova, violin
Sun Hye Oh, violin
Veronika Vassileva, viola
Lejing Zhou, cello
Susan Dubois and Nikola Ružević, coaches
You can see that each movement begins with "mesto", sadly. 1939 was a year to have lots of sadness about in Hungary, anywhere, really. The war was coming, something that Bartok certainly knew, he followed world events closely. He must have known that he would have to leave Hungary though he couldn't have known what that would include, including a struggle to make a living and his eventual death.
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