As piquant and pungent as paprika is the music of Béla Bartók, Hungary’s highest-browed composer. During the past fortnight, with the U. S. musical season well along in the salad course, many a ...

There are occasional moments in Bartók’s String Quartet No. 1 when the gloom lifts, when the densely woven musical lines pause momentarily for a spot of pure, consonant sunniness. In the string ...

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 ...

One of the best ways to get to know a composer’s works is to hear them in sequence. That’s what the Penderecki String Quartet is enabling us to do with a survey of Bela Bartok’s six string quartets at ...

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 ...

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 ...

Composer Bela Bartok collects field recordings of folk songs from Czech peasants. It moved him deeply. From that moment on, the 23-year-old dedicated himself to the collection, study and presentation ...