Paul Silverthorne:

>It's worth pointing out that Csaba Erdelyi's performance of his Finally,
>and this is where my taste contrasts with Steve's, the Primrose/Serly has
>an appealing mellowness to it--unusual for Bartok--which always struck me
>as valedictory on Bartok's part.  (There is plenty of vigor too, and the
>mellowness is probably in part a matter of the old monaural vinyl recording.)
>Just a personal view.

But the  roughly contemporaneous Third Piano Concerto also has that quality
of mellowness, so it may not be just the "old monaural vinyl " at work.

Bernard Chasan