Was the famous Hungarian composer the forefather of bands like Rush and Yes? The Chiara String Quartet breaks it down. The celebrated classical music composer Béla Bartók was really into folk music. I ...

Béla Bartók’s six string quartets are nearly universally regarded as a summit of 20th-century chamber music. Their prestige can spill over to those ensembles that play these challenging works ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Guest speakers and experts include Dr. Dániel Péter Biró, Professor of ...

The repertoire for string quartet was rich before Bela Bartok took up the genre in the first decade of the 20th century. But the Hungarian composer stretched tradition in every direction, creating six ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. Béla Bartók’s String Quartet No. 3 may have seemed like an interloper on the ...

Emily Botel, violin; Abigail Shiman, violin; Erica Zappia, viola; Helen Newby, cello Erwin Schulhoff Five Pieces for String Quartet Gabriela Lena Frank Leyendas: An Andean Walkabout Béla Bartók String ...

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One of the best ways to get to know a composer’s works is to hear them in sequence. That’s what the Penderecki String Quartet is enabling us to do with a survey of Bela Bartok’s six string quartets at ...

Crushed wheaties were uncertainly unknown in 1883 in the little town in Hungary where Bartók was born, which at that time was in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He was prodigiously gifted, and in his 20s ...

The Takács Quartet traveled to the Savannah Music Festival to play Bela Bartók's knotty, challenging String Quartet No. 4. But how did they warm up the crowd? With a slice of insistent, lyrical ...