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 six carefully selected works, the Korean pianist tracks the evolution of Bartók’s keyboard music but doesn’t tell the whole story The six works in Sonya Bach’s collection are well-chosen to provide ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Classical music has never lived in a bubble. There has always been a free flow of ideas intersecting so-called art music and folk music. In this concert from Boston, they all come together: The ...

On Sunday, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, having recently offered concerts pairing the music of Bela Bartók with that of Robert Schumann, kicks off another series of blind dates: pianist Paavali ...

The Hungarian was one of the most important composers of the 20th century, but he wasn’t always to everyone’s taste Exiled: Béla Bartók left Hungary during World War II Fond memories of fine dining in ...

At the start of his great career, when Composer Bela Bartok was about to become a piano instructor at the Budapest Academy of Music, he fell in love with a former academy student. 17-year-old ...