Was the famous Hungarian composer the forefather of bands like Rush and Yes? The Chiara String Quartet breaks it down. The celebrated classical music composer Béla Bartók was really into folk music. I ...

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 ...

As piquant and pungent as paprika is the music of Béla Bartók, Hungary’s highest-browed composer. During the past fortnight, with the U. S. musical season well along in the salad course, many a ...

One of the best ways to get to know a composer’s works is to hear them in sequence. That’s what the Penderecki String Quartet is enabling us to do with a survey of Bela Bartok’s six string quartets at ...

One of the last acts of frail, white-haired Composer Bela Bartok before his death in 1945 was to complete a viola concerto for William Primrose. In the University of Minnesota’s Northrop Memorial ...

The music of Bela Bartok belongs to the world now, transcending time and geography. Universally performed, it needs no special advocacy. So when it's offered as part of a festival honoring Liszt, who, ...

For violist Sarah Switzer ’19, the four pieces that the Yale Symphony Orchestra will play Saturday night have a theme in common: a sense of place. At 8:00 p.m. in Woolsey Hall, the YSO will perform ...

Zoltan Szekely, the Hungarian violinist who was a frequent recital partner of composer Bela Bartok, has died. He was 97. Szekely died Oct. 5 in Banff, Canada, where he was the longtime ...