In Irish music studies the Hungarian composer Béla Bartók (1881-1945) has occasionally, if contentiously, been offered as the model of a kind of figure supposedly absent in the main from Irish art ...

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 ...

One of the great composers of the early 20th century, Béla Bartók was also one of the founders of the field of ethnomusicology. Bartók collected folk music from Slovakia, Transylvania and his native ...

The KSO string section present the music of Bartok alongside Nokuthula Ngwenyama’s “Primal Message”. Concertmaster William Shaub and the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra string section present the music ...

Over the past few days, I’ve been listening to some of my favorite Bartok, in particular his amazing, complex Concerto for Orchestra and his second piano concerto. I have been drawn to his music for ...

I wish the Detroit Symphony Orchestra played more music by Bela Bartok, the Hungarian master whose incomparable masterpieces rank with the most formally imaginative and emotionally fulfilling scores ...

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 ...