The young Czech pianist tackles Bartók’s formidable concertos with confidence and technical accomplishment, although tempi can feel a little sluggish Even though they are among the most challenging ...

Béla Bartók’s six string quartets are nearly universally regarded as a summit of 20th-century chamber music. Their prestige can spill over to those ensembles that play these challenging works ...

Over the past few days, I’ve been listening to some of my favorite Bartok, in particular his amazing, complex Concerto for Orchestra and his second piano concerto. I have been drawn to his music for ...

In two programs with the New York Philharmonic, Esa-Pekka Salonen has constructed a moving exploration of musical legacy. By Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim Cutting through the marketing noise and TikTok ...

Classical music has never lived in a bubble. There has always been a free flow of ideas intersecting so-called art music and folk music. In this concert from Boston, they all come together: The ...

The 26 September 2015 marks the 70th anniversary of the death of the Hungarian composer Béla Bartók, one of the most important composers of the 20th century, who became famous not only for his ...

Composer Bela Bartok collects field recordings of folk songs from Czech peasants. It moved him deeply. From that moment on, the 23-year-old dedicated himself to the collection, study and presentation ...

Banjo wizard Béla Fleck has crafted a fascinating career from infiltration. He's embedded his instrument in musical zones from jazz to classical to West African music. Now he's written himself a ...

This weekend’s St. Paul Chamber Orchestra concerts are heavy on the chamber and light on the orchestra. Or maybe “light” isn’t the right word, for the one orchestral work on the program is anything ...

At the start of his great career, when Composer Bela Bartok was about to become a piano instructor at the Budapest Academy of Music, he fell in love with a former academy student. 17-year-old ...