It was a novel idea when Bela Bartok came up with it in the early 1940's: a concerto not for a single solo instrument, but for the entire orchestra at the same time, with melodic lines and ideas ...

Hungary’s greatest composer Béla Bartók moved to New York during World War II, and he overcame serious health problems to create a musical masterpiece showing off all the instruments of the orchestra ...

Review: A Montreal Orchestra Brings Back Bartok’s Strangeness Kent Nagano and the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal played his Concerto for Orchestra at Carnegie Hall alongside works by Brahms and ...

Jaap van Zweden, the conductor, and Igor Levit, the pianist, are cut from the same cloth. Each is intensely devoted to music. Intensely. Each is disciplined, no-nonsense, bracing. I have often thought ...