NPR

From the Village to the Concert Hall: Béla Bartók

One of the great composers of the early 20th century, Béla Bartók was also one of the founders of the field of ethnomusicology. Bartók collected folk music from Slovakia, Transylvania and his native ...
The Guardian

Building a classical music library: Bela Bartok

Composer and pianist Bartok is one of the great figures of 20th century music. Having just two of his discs in my record collection, I decided to find out more. The Guardian’s journalism is ...
The New York Times

Bela Bartok

In two programs with the New York Philharmonic, Esa-Pekka Salonen has constructed a moving exploration of musical legacy. By Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim Cutting through the marketing noise and TikTok ...
The Irish Times

Béla Bartók: how music broadened the mind of a ‘nationalist’ composer

In Irish music studies the Hungarian composer Béla Bartók (1881-1945) has occasionally, if contentiously, been offered as the model of a kind of figure supposedly absent in the main from Irish art ...
The Guardian

Another theory on Béla Bartók’s send-up in his Concerto for Orchestra

Tom Service repeats the story that the Hungarian composer Béla Bartók, exiled in New York, parodied in his Concerto for Orchestra the “Nazi” theme in Shostakovich’s Seventh Symphony (Sounds of the ...
The Guardian

Béla Bartók: Complete Piano Concertos album review – Tomáš Vrána rises to the challenge

The young Czech pianist tackles Bartók’s formidable concertos with confidence and technical accomplishment, although tempi can feel a little sluggish Even though they are among the most challenging ...