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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

It’s been just over a year since Bing Concert Hall opened at Stanford University. It’s a grand and beautiful place, but its acoustics are variable. To this listener, music sounds best at Bing when ...

Celebrating its 60th season, the all-volunteer New Orleans Friends of Music has consistently presented a wide variety of styles within the repertoire of chamber music. The offerings have ranged from ...

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 ...