All bartok articles
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FocusThe Strad Podcast #96: Christian Tetzlaff on Bartók Violin Concerto no.2
The violinist shares his personal experience and thoughts on the work
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Blogs‘Bartók has been with me for a long time and is irrevocably linked to my personal story’ - Violinist Franziska Pietsch
As a violinist who grew up in East Germany and moved to the West, Franziska Pietsch examines the parallels between her childhood and Béla Bartók’s inner turmoil of emigrating to the US, in recording her new album Bartók - The Quiet Revolutionary
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ReviewLive-streamed concert review: Tesla Quartet: A Bartók Journey
Bruce Hodges hears a marathon concert series of all the composer’s string quartets, taking place at various locations on 1, 4, 5, 9, 11 and 12 June 2021
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ReviewConcert review: 12 Ensemble
Edward Bhesania hears a live-streamed performance from London’s Wigmore Hall on 24 November 2020
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ReviewGoldner Quartet: Bartók and Korngold
Faultless ensemble playing and rare repertoire make a welcome release
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ReviewFrang, Altstaedt, Power, Kelemen, Kokas: Veress, Bartók
Compelling live performances of folk-influenced Hungarian chamber works
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ReviewDiotima Quartet: Bartók complete string quartets
An outstanding new set of Bartók’s complete quartets
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FocusDiscovering Bartók, Ligeti and Kurtág in 3 seminal works
Casals Quartet violist Jonathan Brown chooses three key chamber pieces by the giants of Hungarian music
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FocusMaking sense of Bartók
The Arcadia Quartet’s violist Traian Boală discusses his experience of recording Bartók’s complete string quartets. Interview by Gavin Dixon
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ReviewWandy Tworek: The Danish Violin Wizard
A wonderful historical reminder of a 20th-century Danish whiz
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ReviewRenaud Capuçon, LSO: Bartók Violin Concertos
Velvet-toned performances touched with psychedelic colour
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ReviewChristian Tetzlaff: Bartók Violin Concertos
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra/Hannu Lintu: Impressive performances in one of a recent brace of Bartók concertos