Bela Bartok
Bela Bartok.
Béla Bartók artist page: interviews, features and/or performances archived at NPR Music
Concerts
April 3, 2012 The revered group plays intricate Bartók and passionate Schubert at the Savannah Music Festival.
April 2, 2012 The revered group plays intricate Bartók and passionate Schubert at the Savannah Music Festival.
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April 7, 2011 Watch the venerable ensemble play Beethoven, Bartok and Haydn in New York City's Greene Space.
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April 26, 2010 The lauded quartet played music from its broad repertoire, live from New York City.
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May 6, 2009 A classical string quartet joins a Hungarian folk band to pay homage to Bela Bartok in concert.
September 21, 2007 Samuel Ramey does double duty in Bluebeard's Castle and Gianni Schicchi.
January 9, 2006 Kocsis plays the seldom-performed Bartok Piano Concerto No. 3 with the Finnish Radio Symphony.
Interviews & Profiles
October 20, 2011 Hear the acclaimed pianist discuss and spin his favorite Liszt recordings.
December 1, 2009 The Chicago Symphony, playing as if it had been set on fire, set a standard for Bartok back in 1955.
November 21, 2008 A new poll in Gramophone magazine ranks it among the top 20 orchestras in the world.
September 14, 2007 Bela Bartok's discovery of folk music would be the defining factor in developing his unique style.
Discover Songs
September 16, 2010 Where will True Blood fans get their fix now that season three has ended? In a word: Opera.
September 26, 2008 Five lesser known songs that employ the 5/4 time signature.
News
June 10, 2011 A dissolved orchestra, handsomely paid CEOs and a viola melee: all the classical news fit to link.
October 2, 2010 The conductor, who could never be accused of blandness, finds a new home in Washington, D.C.
Reviews
December 4, 2005 Cellist Matt Haimovitz's new Goulash! album takes on the music of Eastern Europe.
More Stories
January 24, 2005 Hungarian composer Béla Bartók collected recordings of folk music and incorporated it into his own.
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October 27, 2011 Ivan Fischer conducted a songful symphony by Schubert and a finger-twisting concerto by Bartok.
September 22, 2010 To mark Elephant Appreciation Day, take a "critter quiz." Match the music to the creature.
June 5, 2009 Samuel Ramey does double duty in Bluebeard's Castle and Gianni Schicchi.
August 10, 2006 A celebration of Hungary, from "Improvisations on Gypsy Music" to Bartok's 44 Duos for Two Violins.
