James Ehnes's outstanding Bartók series for Chandos continues with the early romantic Sonata BB 28 (1903), Hungarian Folk Songs and Romanian Folk Dances. The key work, however, is the unaccompanied ...

In the 1990s, when Martha Argerich could still be lured into a studio, she recorded the Schumann violin sonatas with Gidon Kremer for Deutsche Grammophon. In this recital, taken from a concert in ...

In many performances of the Bartok Solo Sonata its legendary difficulty is more apparent than its beauty and nobility: the violinist sweats profusely in a cloud of resin dust, his bow reduced to a ...

Rob Cowan talks to violinist James Ehnes about the demands of Bartók’s Solo Violin Sonata James Ehnes joins me over coffee to discuss one of his abiding passions, the music of Béla Bartók. Ehnes and ...

Bartok: Sonata for Solo Violin; 44 Duos for Two Violins, Books I-IV Gyorgy Pauk, Kazuki Sawa, violins (Naxos). Having recorded most of the mainstream repertoire, the Naxos budget label is now moving ...

Brahms and Bartók make unlikely companions. In playing the Brahms concerto so introspectively and then focusing on the sense of mystery that opens Bartók’s Violin Concerto No. 1 Janine Jansen finds a ...

On Sunday, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, having recently offered concerts pairing the music of Bela Bartók with that of Robert Schumann, kicks off another series of blind dates: pianist Paavali ...

So many jokes have been written about the viola that it really should be pitied. Without a look of its own (the viola resembles an overweight violin), without its own sound quality (it shares ...