Hungarian Pictures Hungarian Pictures Hungarian Pictures, sometimes also referred to as Hungarian Sketches, Sz. 97, BB 103 () is a suite for orchestra by Hungarian composer Béla Bartók finished in 1931. The suite consists of orchestrations of earlier short pieces for piano composed between 1908 and 1911. The original piano pieces were created during Bartók's journey around Romania and Hungary, when he started collecting and arranging folk music that further transformed his somewhat Lisztian early style into the style he came to develop. Therefore, many of the compositions from this period were either based on folk music or created from scratch with
Tirol Concerto for Piano and Orchestra is usually orchestrated for a large ensemble, the work displays the traditional minimalist elements which characterize the composer's music. Glass' choice for string orchestra was probably influenced by Dmitri Shostakovich, whose Piano Concerto No. 1 is also written for strings. Several recordings of the concerto have been made. The concerto is in three movements, the middle being the longest. Tirol Concerto for Piano and Orchestra The Tirol Concerto for Piano and Orchestra (also known as the Piano Concerto No. 1) is a piano concerto by Philip Glass. The composer wrote the work in 2000. On commission by the Festival Klangspuren