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 ...

Inspired by the groundbreaking research carried out by the renowned ethnomusicologist and composer Béla Bartók during his time in Turkey in the 1930s, this concert juxtaposes compositions for string ...

In two programs with the New York Philharmonic, Esa-Pekka Salonen has constructed a moving exploration of musical legacy. By Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim Cutting through the marketing noise and TikTok ...

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 ...

It’s been too long since we’ve seen Esa-Pekka Salonen on the podium. The conductor-composer, a youthful 66, had to bail on his annual Chicago Symphony booking last season to receive the Polar Music ...

At the start of his great career, when Composer Bela Bartok was about to become a piano instructor at the Budapest Academy of Music, he fell in love with a former academy student. 17-year-old ...

The Derby City Chamber Music Festival's mission is to enthrall and inspire our greater Louisville community through the very best performances of chamber music and small ensemble music, engaging and ...

On March 28, 1949, at Times Hall, in midtown Manhattan, an unexpectedly large crowd materialized to hear the Juilliard Quartet play the second part of a two-concert survey of the six string quartets ...

Review: The Orion Quartet Plays Kirchner, Disguised as Bartok This string quartet performed a survey of Leon Kirchner’s complete quartets at the Rose Studio, presented by the Chamber Music Society of ...