Bartók revised his ‘pantomime ballet’ many times; the BBC Scottish Symphony orchestra’s new disc is the first ever recording of its final version First performed in 1917, the one-act “pantomime ballet ...

Concerto for Violin and Orchestra No. 1 Béla Bartók, Composer Christian Tetzlaff, Violin Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra Hannu Lintu, Conductor Concerto for Violin and Orchestra No. 2 Béla Bartók, ...

Houston Symphony has scheduled only two performances of Béla Bartók’s magnificent opera Bluebeard’s Castle. One occurred last night, Saturday, and the final performance is Sunday matinee. This review ...

If you pan back to 1954 in search of the year’s finest music, Vaughan Williams’s Tuba Concerto and Lutosławski’s Concerto for Orchestra are among the best-known highlights. But what about Sándor ...

Like many another composer, Hungary’s Bela Bartók lived and died a poor man. His sour and peppery music was bitterly condemned by many critics; audiences seemed to like it even less. Mostly it got ...

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 ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Bartók's aesthetic vocabulary was rather limited both in its choice and its application. In his early years, for example, he almost ...

James Ehnes's outstanding Bartók series for Chandos continues with the early romantic Sonata BB 28 (1903), Hungarian Folk Songs and Romanian Folk Dances. The key work, however, is the unaccompanied ...

Brahms and Bartók make unlikely companions. In playing the Brahms concerto so introspectively and then focusing on the sense of mystery that opens Bartók’s Violin Concerto No. 1 Janine Jansen finds a ...

Isabelle Faust's recording of Bartók's violin concertos marks her long-awaited return to a composer with whose sonatas she was closely associated early in her career. The first concerto was neither ...