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 ...

I wish the Detroit Symphony Orchestra played more music by Bela Bartok, the Hungarian master whose incomparable masterpieces rank with the most formally imaginative and emotionally fulfilling scores ...

Over the past few days, I’ve been listening to some of my favorite Bartok, in particular his amazing, complex Concerto for Orchestra and his second piano concerto. I have been drawn to his music for ...

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 ...

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 ...

Concerto for Orchestra Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra Karina Canellakis, Conductor The curtain-raiser somewhat eclipses the main event in this instance. Why we don’t hear more of Bartók’s ...

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 ...

Banjo wizard Béla Fleck has crafted a fascinating career from infiltration. He's embedded his instrument in musical zones from jazz to classical to West African music. Now he's written himself a ...