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 ...
Hungary’s greatest composer Béla Bartók moved to New York during World War II, and he overcame serious health problems to create a musical masterpiece showing off all the instruments of the orchestra ...
Bartók wrote his Concerto for Orchestra in 1943 to display the virtuosity of the principal players in the Boston Symphony, which commissioned it. It has become his most popular work, and it’s a great ...