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 ...

There were two concerts — one energetic, one hardly so, as the Boston Symphony Orchestra opened its season Thursday evening at Symphony Hall. The high point began after intermission. Finnish conductor ...

Conductor Ruth Reinhardt is happily expecting her first child and has withdrawn from her upcoming performances with the New Jersey Symphony. On the advice of her doctors, she is unable to travel for ...

I wish the Detroit Symphony Orchestra played more music by Bela Bartok, the Hungarian master whose incomparable masterpieces rank with the most formally imaginative and emotionally fulfilling scores ...

Concerto for Orchestra Béla Bartók, Composer Marin Alsop, Conductor Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Béla Bartók, Composer Marin ...

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 ...

Few works are as worthy of the designation of modern classic as Bartok’s Concerto for Orchestra. Composed in 1943 on a commission from Serge Koussevitzky, it has since become a symphonic staple, a ...

Concerto for Violin and Orchestra No. 2 Tedi Papavrami, Violin Emmanuel Krivine, Conductor Béla Bartók, Composer Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra Concerto for Orchestra Emmanuel Krivine, Conductor ...