Concert opportunities this week include a performance of portions of a French opera from the 1700s, as well as three ...

Like many another composer, Hungary’s Bela Bartók lived and died a poor man. His sour and peppery music was bitterly condemned by many critics; audiences seemed to like it even less. Mostly it got ...

The comedian, actor and keen amateur musician Nick Mohammed reports on the first British encounters with the music of Hungarian Bela Bartok and how our attitudes changed over time. Show more The ...

“This is the most exciting thing that’s happened since the opera house was built,” said the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra’s manager. The woodwind players were stomping their feet, brass players ...

Ask the publishers to restore access to 500,000+ books. The Internet Archive keeps the record straight by preserving government websites, news publications, historical documents, and more. If you find ...

The programme of the Bartók Spring International Arts Weeks has been finalised, and will feature the Arooj Aftab’s jazz trio and a performance of De Sheherezade by Maria Pages among others, organisers ...

The Syracuse Orchestra’s Casual series concert on March 2 will present Bella Bartok’s “Divertimento for String Orchestra” and Wolfgang Mozart’s “Gran Partita.” Music Director Lawrence Loh will conduct ...

Considered one of the great composers of the 20th century, the deeply expressive Béla Bartók synthesised elements of folk music of Hungarian and related cultures into classical forms, producing a ...

Bartók revised his ‘pantomime ballet’ many times; the BBC Scottish Symphony orchestra’s new disc is the first ever recording of its final version First performed in 1917, the one-act “pantomime ballet ...

Star cellist Guy Johnston joins Britten Sinfonia in a programme of powerful music by Tavener, Beethoven and Bartók. The cello’s singing qualities are to the fore in John Tavener’s The Protecting Veil, ...

The recording of Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta; Divertimento for strings; and Hungarian Sketches for orchestra by the Hungarian National Philharmonic under the baton of Zoltán Kocsis, was ...