Bartok News

In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, many conservatory-trained composers turned to their native folk traditions for inspiration, collecting songs and dance melodies from the countryside and recasting them ...

A return to Budapest, now that this great city offers a truly welcoming hall, wouldn't be a bad idea either.

While jazz began as a form of entertainment, it has evolved into a more serious musical genre.

Here was an idea that even Bartk himself would have thought a little crazy: all six of his string quartets - any one of which would form the exhausting climax of a conventional programme - performed in ...

Still in his early 30s, Canadian violinist James Ehnes' star continues to rise on the international scene.

Geoffrey Norris finds himself refreshed by the first concert of the season A gust of fresh, bracing air blew through the hall with this first concert of the season given by the City of Birmingham Symphony ...

Classical music returns inside to concert halls and churches after a summer of performances on verdant lawns.

Audio for today's show will be available at approx. 7:00 p.m. ET. September 14, 2008 - Matt Haimovitz may not fit some people's perceptions of a traditional classical musician.

The Bluffton University Artist Series kicks off Thursday in style with the Toledo Symphony Orchestra at 7:30 p.m. in Yoder Recital Hall.

One movement from Ravel's Mother Goose "Beauty and the Beast" might have described the first half of the New York Philharmonic's second Prom.

Jazz saxophone phenomenon and extraordinary classical string quartet come together to perform Getz' Focus - The Lied Center of Kansas, CornerBank and The Eldridge present Branford Marsalis and Alexander String ...

Michael London, Barry Millington's rating Description: Lorin Maazel conducts Ravel's Mother Goose - Suite, Bartok's The Miraculous Mandarin - Suite and Tchaikovsky's Symphony No 4 In F Minor.

Young keyboard phenomenon Yuja Wang will perform at the Hayes Center in Blowing Rock this Sunday evening.

Hubbard Street Dance Chicago performs Tuesday through Thursday at the Aspen District Theatre.

Yefim Bronfman has a long history with the Los Angeles Philharmonic: He won a Grammy for his recording of Bartok piano concertos with the orchestra.

Thousands of musical notes, all in a hurry. A rush hour of slammin', jammin' tunes.

Although it's a record on which three adventurous London musicians each contribute to making the earth move, Blink may one day be best remembered as the album with which pianist Alcyona Mick started getting ...

The solo violinist is pulling the tourniquet tight around her bicep before shooting up prior to the Brahms on the second half, the clarinets are passing around dime bags to get through Bartok a week later, ...

Tonight, Back Bay Chorale performs Mendelssohn's "Elijah" at Sanders Theatre . . . and the New England Conservatory's Youth Philharmonic Orchestra plays Brahms, Bartok, and Schumann in Jordan Hall.

One of the great operas of the past century is Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht's "Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny." A scandal at its premiere in Leipzig in 1930, the piece was disdained by both the Nazis ...