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 ...

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 ...

Considered one of the great composers of the 20th century, the deeply expressive Béla Bartók synthesised elements of folk music of Hungarian and related cultures into classical forms, producing a ...

Classical music has never lived in a bubble. There has always been a free flow of ideas intersecting so-called art music and folk music. In this concert from Boston, they all come together: The ...

Traditional Hungarian folk dancing is a rousing affair that celebrates the joy of life. The Hungarian State Folk Ensemble's vibrant Hungarian Concerto, Hommage a Bela Bartok, introduces Asian ...

The work of a 20th Century master, Bela Bartók, and the folk music that provided so much of his inspiration, are brought together at the Sage Gateshead by the Takacs Quartet and the distinguished ...

There are occasional moments in Bartók’s String Quartet No. 1 when the gloom lifts, when the densely woven musical lines pause momentarily for a spot of pure, consonant sunniness. In the string ...