After all these years, conductor Fritz Reiner's 1955 recording of Bartok's music remains the best. He understood the poignant, brooding,... Bartok's Best 'Concerto For Orchestra' Bartok's Best ...

Veronika Eberle and the Swedish Radio Symphony perform Beethoven's only violin concerto.

There’s a thing that some classical musicians do when they see a folk tune, and French violinist Augustin Dumay does it here. Bartók marked the opening of his Second Violin Concerto “tempo di ...

In our daily series Armchair Arts, a Telegraph critic offers expert analysis. Today, Ivan Hewett looks at a moving classical masterpiece Ivan Hewett is The Telegraph’s Classical Music Critic and an ...

In 1943, Bela Bartok’s finances were a wreck and his health was failing fast due to complications from leukemia. And yet the ailing composer still had one, final masterpiece to create. Thanks to a ...

Cornelius Meister is by no means the first conductor to pair Bartók's first and last works for orchestra on disc. His performances with the Austrian national broadcaster, ORF, may be very accomplished ...

Suite No. 1 Thomas Dausgaard, Conductor BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Béla Bartók, Composer Concerto for Orchestra BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Béla Bartók, Composer Thomas Dausgaard, Conductor ...

Concerto for Viola and Orchestra Amihai Grosz, Viola Lille National Orchestra Alexandre Bloch, Conductor Having made waves with one of the best Mahler Sevenths of recent times (Alpha, 11/20), this ...

The programme that celebrates classical music through the manuscripts on which it first saw the light of day is back in Washington DC to see Bartok's great Concerto for Orchestra. Show more Although a ...