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 ...

Often patronised and dismissed in its early years, Bartók’s last piano concerto has since become a staple of the repertoire.

Leeds Piano silver medal winner, fellow, and alumnus of the Royal Academy of Music Junyan Chen performs the exhilarating ...

In 1987, after she built her house in Berlin, Vt., pianist Sylvia Parker began hearing rumors about the neighborhood’s musical history. “People started asking me, did I know anything about a musician ...

Béla Bartók was a superb pianist and his first and last compositions in life were both for the instrument: a waltz he wrote at age 9, and his Piano Concerto No. 3 as he was dying in New York City as a ...

The Sonata For Two Pianos And Percussion (1937) is Béla Bartók’s most exhilarating masterpiece. He always preferred his music to have a strong rhythmic profile, and by focusing on the essentially ...

Rhapsody Béla Bartók, Composer Budapest Festival Orchestra Iván Fischer, Conductor Zoltán Kocsis, Piano Scherzo, 'Burlesque' Béla Bartók, Composer Budapest Festival Orchestra Zoltán Kocsis, Piano Iván ...

I wish the Detroit Symphony Orchestra played more music by Bela Bartok, the Hungarian master whose incomparable masterpieces rank with the most formally imaginative and emotionally fulfilling scores ...

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 ...

A reluctant revolutionary who tried to adapt the natural rhythms and phrasing of ancient Hungarian folksongs to mainstream classical music, or a subversive reactionary who all but brought the Western ...