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Christian Tetzlaff's new album features the two Violin Concertos by Béla Bartók. Giorgia Bertazzi hide caption

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Christian Tetzlaff: Don't Mind Me, I'm Just The Violinist

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Caleb Burhans debut album as a composer is called Evensong. Courtesy of the artist hide caption

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Banjos, Bartók And La Belle Époque: New Classical Albums

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The Takacs Quartet played Bartok and Schubert last week at the Savannah Music Festival. Frank Stewart/Savannah Music Festival hide caption

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Takacs Quartet: Schubert Meets Bartok

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The Takacs Quartet played Bartók and Schubert last week at the Savannah Music Festival. Frank Stewart/Savannah Music Festival hide caption

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Takacs Quartet: A Slice Of Schubert And A Bartok Palindrome

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Conductor Ivan Fischer leads his Budapest Festival Orchestra in a program of Bartok and Schubert live at Carnegie Hall, Saturday, Oct. 29.

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Hungarian composer Franz Liszt, circa 1886. The 200th anniversary of his birth falls on Oct. 22.

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Guest DJ Leif Ove Andsnes' Liszt List

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The Tokyo Quartet untangles Beethoven's complex Grosse Fuge at WQXR's Greene Space. Pete Checchia/Courtesy of the artists hide caption

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Christoph Eschenbach is both a pianist and a conductor. Getty Images hide caption

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Christoph Eschenbach: Husband To A Hundred

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Ted Libbey And Fred Child Recommend Bartok's Concerto For Orchestra

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Chicago Symphony Tops U.S. Orchestras

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Soprano Amanda Squitieri sings "O mio babbino caro" in Washington

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