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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Hungarian composer Béla Bartók was a pianist. But some of the music Bartók wrote for strings, inspired by folk music, is considered among his most expressive and inventive. This weekend, Kansas City ...

Bartók wrote his Concerto for Orchestra in 1943 to display the virtuosity of the principal players in the Boston Symphony, which commissioned it. It has become his most popular work, and it’s a great ...

The South Bend Symphony Orchestra is inviting music lovers to an unforgettable evening of music at the fourth installment of the Jack M. Champaigne Masterworks Series, Bartók's Concerto for Orchestra, ...

While the daring and still-shocking works of Bartók have somehow eased their way into most orchestras’ repertoires, it’s exciting to listen to a conductor like Ozawa put these two (incredibly popular) ...

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 ...

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 ...

After all these years, conductor Fritz Reiner's 1955 recording of Bartok's music remains the best. He understood the poignant, brooding,... Bartok's Best 'Concerto For Orchestra' Bartok's Best ...

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 ...