Three duets based on folk melodies by Bartók

A few weeks ago I got a request from my Godfather for videos of the Bartók duets, and while I think I would have been safe to refuse him, I decided to err on the side of safety. Bartók was one of the earliest people to make an academic study of folk music, before ethnomusicology was a degree offered at universities. In the early 1900s He traveled in eastern Europe and Africa, lugging around a phonograph that he used to record music played by the people he met. Some of these recordings are available on YouTube, and while the sound quality is obviously not what we are used to, I think they are fascinating. Here is a link to those recordings if you are interested, though I should warn you that when I make students listen to them they don’t seem as excited as I am… https://youtu.be/MhCoDIiWtzw