In 1987, after she built her house in Berlin, Vt., pianist Sylvia Parker began hearing rumors about the neighborhood’s musical history. “People started asking me, did I know anything about a musician ...

Béla Bartók was a superb pianist and his first and last compositions in life were both for his instrument: a waltz he wrote at age 9, and his Piano Concerto No. 3 as he was dying in New York City as a ...

The Sonata For Two Pianos And Percussion (1937) is Béla Bartók’s most exhilarating masterpiece. He always preferred his music to have a strong rhythmic profile, and by focusing on the essentially ...

Béla Bartók was a superb pianist and his first and last compositions in life were both for his instrument: a waltz he wrote at age 9, and his Piano Concerto No. 3 as he was dying in New York City as a ...

Over the past few days, I’ve been listening to some of my favorite Bartok, in particular his amazing, complex Concerto for Orchestra and his second piano concerto. I have been drawn to his music for ...

The 26 September 2015 marks the 70th anniversary of the death of the Hungarian composer Béla Bartók, one of the most important composers of the 20th century, who became famous not only for his ...

To accompany a concert performance of a seldom-performed piano concerto by Bela Bartok, NPR's Fred Child tells the story of the music's inception in the summer of 1945. Zoltan Kocsis is the pianist, ...

Some phonograph records are musical events. Each month TIME notes the noteworthy. SYMPHONIC, ETC. Bartolc: Contrasts for Violin, Clarinet and Piano (Bela Bartok, piano; Joseph Szigeti, violin; Benny ...