The New York Times

Bela Bartok

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 ...
Colorado Public Radio

Listen: How Bela Bartok Turned Folk Melodies Into Classical Masterworks

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 ...
KCRW

The Strange Appeal of Bela Bartok

Over the past few days, I’ve been listening to some of my favorite Bartok, in particular his amazing, complex Concerto for Orchestra and his second piano concerto. I have been drawn to his music for ...
Nature

Illness and artistic creativity (on the 70th anniversary of the death of Béla Bartók, composer, ethnomusicologist and leukemia patient)

The 26 September 2015 marks the 70th anniversary of the death of the Hungarian composer Béla Bartók, one of the most important composers of the 20th century, who became famous not only for his ...
The Guardian

Building a classical music library: Bela Bartok

Composer and pianist Bartok is one of the great figures of 20th century music. Having just two of his discs in my record collection, I decided to find out more. The Guardian’s journalism is ...
NPR

From the Village to the Concert Hall: Béla Bartók

One of the great composers of the early 20th century, Béla Bartók was also one of the founders of the field of ethnomusicology. Bartók collected folk music from Slovakia, Transylvania and his native ...
Time

Music: The Bartók Revival

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 ...

Composer of the Week Podcast

Sz. 101 44 Duos for Two Violins, BB 104, Sz. 98 Out of Doors, Sz. 81 Mikrokosmos, Book V String Quartet No. 6, Sz 114 Piano ...
NPR

Bartok's Best 'Concerto For Orchestra'

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 ...
The Guardian

Another theory on Béla Bartók’s send-up in his Concerto for Orchestra

Tom Service repeats the story that the Hungarian composer Béla Bartók, exiled in New York, parodied in his Concerto for Orchestra the “Nazi” theme in Shostakovich’s Seventh Symphony (Sounds of the ...
The New York Times

Bela Bartok

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