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 ...

Dances from Galánta Scottish Chamber Orchestra Charles Mackerras, Conductor Zoltán Kodály, Composer Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta Charles Mackerras, Conductor Béla Bartók, Composer ...

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 ...

Béla Balász’s libretto for Bartók’s 1914-16 ballet The Wooden Prince is fairly straightforward. It tells of the tribulations of a prince and a princess who live in castles on either side of a forest.

Orpheus dances with Bartok Audio will be available later today. From one of their many recordings, we hear the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra play the Romanian Dances by Bela Bartok (1881-1945).

Most music doesn’t suit safety, and the stakes are always higher when an orchestra knows it is being recorded live – no studio retakes, no patching (probably). This Bartók disc comes from the ...

When arranged around the piano, celesta and harp, the LSO strings comfortably fill the Barbican stage, making for large-scale Bartók. But the precision of the ensemble, as well as the unwavering tonal ...

(The) Wooden Prince BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Thomas Dausgaard, Conductor Divertimento BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Thomas Dausgaard, Conductor Romanian Folkdances BBC Scottish Symphony ...

Pablo Heras-Casado will return to the New York Philharmonic to conduct Bartók's Dance Suite; Bruch's Violin Concerto No. 1, with Concertmaster Frank Huang as soloist; and Dvo?ák's Symphony No. 7, ...