June de Toth

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Hungarian-American pianist June de Toth has championed the piano music of Bela Bartok throughout a critically acclaimed concert career in the United States and Europe. She has just released a 5CD box set of Bartok's Solo Piano Works on the Eroica label. She is the first woman to record a box set of Bartok’s greatest solo piano works. In October, 1995, she performed an "All Bartok" recital at the Bartok Memorial House in Budapest, Hungary. She was the only American artist invited by the Hungarian government to take part in this 6-week International Festival of Bartok's works, commemorating the 50th anniversary of his death. She also performed Bartok's music in previous appearances on the European national radio networks of Portugal and Yugoslavia. She featured his "15 Hungarian Peasant Songs and Dances" in her premiere recording on the Da Vinci label of RCA Victor Red Seal Records. In her Town Hall debut, she presented the first public "All Bartok" recital in New York City, which was attended by Bartok's son, Peter. Her Carnegie Hall debut featured Bartok's "Sonata 1926." She won rave reviews for her performance of Bartok's Third Piano Concerto with the Santa Fe Symphony Orchestra. June de Toth's interpretation of Bartók's solo piano music is decidedly her own. She expresses a lyrical and romantic vision of his early poetic works, which were very much influenced by the French impressionist composer Claude Debussy. Her playing also emphasizes the melodic beauty of the H

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Bartok Solo Piano Works, Volume 3

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Bartok Solo Piano Works, Volume 2

Great Piano Favorites, Volume 2

Beethoven/Schubert Recital

All Chopin Recital

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Bartok Solo Piano Works, Volumes 6 and 7, The Complete Mikrokosmos

Great Piano Favorites, Volume 1

Bartok Solo Piano Works, Volume 4

Bartok Solo Piano Works, Volume 5

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Bartok Solo Piano Works, Volume 1

All Mozart Recital

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Bartok: Solo Piano Works Volume 1

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