Yuja Wang dressed for the occasion Friday night, the beginning of her first cycle of Bartók’s three piano concertos. She wore a tight-fitting rose-gold metallic gown, boldly split up the middle. She ...

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 ...

Monday night in the University at Buffalo's Lippes Hall. With audience-friendly works such as his 1944 Concerto for Orchestra now firmly planted in the repertoire and in listeners' minds, it is easy ...

Yefim Bronfman, piano; Los Angeles Philharmonic; Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor (Sony). Rare are the performers who make the necessary adjustments from the barbarism of Bartok’s first two piano ...

No doubt, Wigmore Hall’s Bartók Festival aimed to introduce London audiences to a cross-section of Bartók’s piano music as well as to his relationship to the piano, both as a composer and a pianist.

Bartok: Works for Piano and Orchestra. Piano Concertos Nos. 1-3. Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta. Rhapsody for Piano and Orchestra, Op. 1. Scherzo for Piano and Orchestra, Op. 2 (1904) ...

These pieces were included on an irresistible collection of Bartók’s complete choral music released last year on the same label. Buy that, then get this disc too; the performances are equally ...

To accompany a concert performance of a seldom-performed piano concerto by Bela Bartok, NPR's Fred Child tells the story of the music's inception in the summer of 1945. Zoltan Kocsis is the pianist, ...

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 ...