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 was the composer’s deathbed, but bringing it into the world gave ...

After all these years, conductor Fritz Reiner's 1955 recording of Bartok's music remains the best. He understood the poignant, brooding,... Bartok's Best 'Concerto For Orchestra' Bartok's Best ...

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 ...

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 ...

The most striking episode in this new Concerto for Orchestra is at the beginning of the finale, or rather the Presto that takes over a few seconds after the Pesante opening. Bartok’s metronome marking ...

It was a novel idea when Bela Bartok came up with it in the early 1940's: a concerto not for a single solo instrument, but for the entire orchestra at the same time, with melodic lines and ideas ...

In 1943 Concerto for Orchestra was written by Bartok in just 2 months when he was living in the USA. Bartok was paid $1000 by Boston Symphony conductor Serge Koussevitzky to compose a work in memory ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...