Music has a life-giving force and uncanny power of resilience. Bela Bartók’s Concerto for Orchestra was written on what many thought was the composer’s deathbed, but bringing it into the world gave ...

Each of the three pieces the Butler County Symphony Orchestra will perform at its concert Saturday, March 7, has international themes and motifs, even though all of them were composed on American ...

Suite No. 1 Thomas Dausgaard, Conductor BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Béla Bartók, Composer Concerto for Orchestra BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Béla Bartók, Composer Thomas Dausgaard, Conductor ...

The 26-minute bio-featurette on Hungarian composer Béla Bartók (1881-1945) is not the reason to buy this DVD. Rather, it is the concert performance of his most famous symphonic work, the Concerto for ...

Concerto for Violin and Orchestra No. 2 Augustin Dumay, Violin Kent Nagano, Conductor Montreal Symphony Orchestra Béla Bartók, Composer Concerto for Orchestra Montreal Symphony Orchestra Béla Bartók, ...

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 ...

Florida Orchestra concertmaster Jeffrey Multer gave a stunning performance Friday of one of the most interesting, as well as notoriously difficult, pieces in the violin repertoire: Béla Bartók's ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. "We commissioned these concertos for orchestra not only because these ...

The programme that celebrates classical music through the manuscripts on which it first saw the light of day is back in Washington DC to see Bartok's great Concerto for Orchestra. Show more Although a ...

It was a make-or-break moment. When some 1,200 managers, musicians and other influential figures gathered in 2002 for the American Symphony Orchestra League’s national conference, the world premiere ...

Building a Library: Emily MacGregor recommends a her favourite recording of Béla Bartók's Concerto for Orchestra. For Bartók, the circumstances surrounding the composition of his Concerto for ...