In 1943, Bela Bartok’s finances were a wreck and his health was failing fast due to complications from leukemia. And yet the ailing composer still had one, final masterpiece to create. Thanks to a ...

Music has a life-giving force and uncanny power of resilience. Bela Bartók’s Concerto for Orchestra was written on what many thought the composer’s deathbed, but bringing it into the world gave the ...

There were two concerts — one energetic, one hardly so, as the Boston Symphony Orchestra opened its season Thursday evening at Symphony Hall. The high point began after intermission. Finnish conductor ...

Hungarian composer Béla Bartók was a pianist. But some of the music Bartók wrote for strings, inspired by folk music, is considered among his most expressive and inventive. This weekend, Kansas City ...

The programme that celebrates classical music through the manuscripts on which it first saw the light of day is back in Washington DC to see Bartok's great Concerto for Orchestra. Show more Although a ...

Get Access To Every Broadway Story Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. The South Bend Symphony Orchestra is inviting ...

Bartók wrote his Concerto for Orchestra in 1943 to display the virtuosity of the principal players in the Boston Symphony, which commissioned it. It has become his most popular work, and it’s a great ...

Florida Orchestra concertmaster Jeffrey Multer gave a stunning performance Friday of one of the most interesting, as well as notoriously difficult, pieces in the violin repertoire: Béla Bartók's ...

The 26-minute bio-featurette on Hungarian composer Béla Bartók (1881-1945) is not the reason to buy this DVD. Rather, it is the concert performance of his most famous symphonic work, the Concerto for ...

Daniel Schmitt gives a full-toned reading of Bela Bartok’s Viola Concerto with WA Symphony Orchestra under Asher Fisch at ...

From hilarious to historic to Haydn, the compact discs keep rolling in. Get ready for some fascinating fare. In the “hilarious” category, fans of the beloved old Hoffnung concerts on Angel Records ...