The Concerto for Orchestra was composer Bela Bartok's last completed work; he did not live to finish either the Third Piano Concerto or the Viola Concerto that followed it. In these last works, all ...

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 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 ...

Composer Bela Bartok collects field recordings of folk songs from Czech peasants. It moved him deeply. From that moment on, the 23-year-old dedicated himself to the collection, study and presentation ...

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 ...

Houston Symphony has scheduled only two performances of Béla Bartók’s magnificent opera Bluebeard’s Castle. One occurred last night, Saturday, and the final performance is Sunday matinee. This review ...

When Northampton punk band Bella’s Bartok comes to Electric Haze on Dec. 27, it will be their last appearance in town before ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. It seems the piano music of eastern Europe is at last getting the wider recognition it deserves. On this disc ...

The revolutionaries of early 20th-century music may not be well-loved, but at least they’re well-known. Everyone can recognise the gnomelike figure of Igor Stravinsky, and Arnold Schoenberg is famous ...

Bella's Bartok performs live theatrical indie rock at Appleton's Mile of Music festival. Six-piece indie rock group Bella's Bartok embraces the strange with a theatrical performance style. Here are ...