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 ...

Was the famous Hungarian composer the forefather of bands like Rush and Yes? The Chiara String Quartet breaks it down. The celebrated classical music composer Béla Bartók was really into folk music. I ...

Emily Botel, violin; Abigail Shiman, violin; Erica Zappia, viola; Helen Newby, cello Erwin Schulhoff Five Pieces for String Quartet Gabriela Lena Frank Leyendas: An Andean Walkabout Béla Bartók String ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. Béla Bartók’s String Quartet No. 3 may have seemed like an interloper on the ...

The repertoire for string quartet was rich before Bela Bartok took up the genre in the first decade of the 20th century. But the Hungarian composer stretched tradition in every direction, creating six ...

In the universe of chamber music, the six string quartets of Bela Bartok seem to occupy their own planet, one with a gravitational pull perhaps more akin to a white dwarf. One might hear these works ...

The Takács Quartet traveled to the Savannah Music Festival to play Bela Bartók's knotty, challenging String Quartet No. 4. But how did they warm up the crowd? With a slice of insistent, lyrical ...

The Takács Quartet traveled to the Savannah Music Festival to play Bela Bartók's knotty, challenging String Quartet No. 4. But how did they warm up the crowd? With a slice of insistent, lyrical ...

Crushed wheaties were uncertainly unknown in 1883 in the little town in Hungary where Bartók was born, which at that time was in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He was prodigiously gifted, and in his 20s ...