In six carefully selected works, the Korean pianist tracks the evolution of Bartók’s keyboard music but doesn’t tell the whole story The six works in Sonya Bach’s collection are well-chosen to provide ...

Like many another composer, Hungary’s Bela Bartók lived and died a poor man. His sour and peppery music was bitterly condemned by many critics; audiences seemed to like it even less. Mostly it got ...

In the spring of 1941 the Hungarian prime minister Pál Teleki faced a terrible decision: aid Germany in the invasion of Yugoslavia or refuse and provoke the German invasion of Hungary. Even for the ...

The Bartók is well-equipped and superbly made, but most importantly, it sounds great Why you can trust What Hi-Fi? Our expert team reviews products in dedicated test rooms, to help you make the best ...

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 ...

The Transylvania State Philharmonic Choir & Orchestra and conductor Lawrence Foster present choral-orchestral works by Béla Bartók and Zoltán Kodály. They join forces with a remarkable group of ...

The Polish pianist Piotr Anderszewski’s new, and long awaited, recording is a beautiful collection of miniatures by composers all working around the edges of modernism For his many admirers Piotr ...

Isabelle Faust, as she explains in her excellent booklet notes accompanying this CD, has a particular penchant for the violin music of Bartók, fostered by her studies with a violinist who knew the ...

From the Concerto For Orchestra to Bluebeard's Castle, here are Béla Bartók's greatest works in outstanding recordings from Pierre Boulez, Susanna Mälkki, Gidon Kremer, Martha Argerich and more Béla ...

Considered by many the greatest contribution to the 20th-century string quartet repertoire, Bartók’s cycle is a rite of passage for any number of ensembles. Richard Whitehouse chooses his favourites ...

Ambivalent: the mysterious figure of Béla Bartók, pictured in 1939 Credit: Photo: Roger Viollet Of all the great modernist composers who shattered the musical consensus in the years before the First ...

It's almost like there's a code embedded in Bartok's field recordings, and when the code comes out, it transforms the music. It transforms us. Ban's playing is at once dynamic, appealing, fun, ...