All Bartók articles – Page 3
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ReviewNathan Meltzer: To Roman Totenberg
Promising playing but still a way to go on this tribute to a renowned violinist
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ReviewPatricia Kopatchinskaja: What’s Next, Vivaldi?
Violinist’s maverick and highly original approach to Vivaldi strikes gold
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ReviewConcert review: Isabelle Faust (violin) et al
Tim Homfray hears the violinist and her cohorts at Wigmore Hall, London, on 23 December 2019
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ReviewMischa Maisky, Lily Maisky: 20th-Century Classics
A father–daughter combination achieves some almost miraculous musical moments
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ReviewFabiola Kim: 1939
Warm and heartfelt accounts of three concertos written at the end of the 1930s
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ReviewFrang, Altstaedt, Power, Kelemen, Kokas: Veress, Bartók
Compelling live performances of folk-influenced Hungarian chamber works
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ReviewBenyounes Quartet: Innovators: Bartók, Beethoven, Debussy
Quartet’s tenth-anniversary disc is something to celebrate
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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
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ReviewPatricia Kopatchinskaja, Polina Leschenko: Deux – works by Poulenc, Bartók and Ravel
POULENC Violin Sonata; DELIBES/DOHNÁNYI Waltz from Coppélia; BARTÓK Violin Sonata no.2; RAVEL Tzigane
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BlogsHow Schumann’s suppressed Violin Concerto made history – and the ideal subject for a novel
A glamorous violin virtuosa, a hidden masterpiece, a ouija board, Nazis, Ravel’s Tzigane. It’s not hard to see why author Jessica Duchen was attracted to the story of Jelly D’Arányi. As her novel becomes a UK touring concert, she writes about the strange facts behind the fiction
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NewsCosima Soulez-Larivière wins inaugural Bartók World Competition
Twenty-year-old, educated at Menuhin School in England, takes first prize in all-female final
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ReviewBach: Violin Sonata no.3 in C major BWV1005, Bartók: Sonata for solo violin, Boulez: Anthèmes I & II
THE STRAD RECOMMENDS The Strad Issue: April 2017Description: Masterfully assembled solo recital from a chip off the old blockMusicians: Michael Barenboim (violin)Composer: Bach, Bartók, BoulezCatalogue number: ACCENTUS ACC 30405 This unusual programme demands the kind of disciplined virtuosity that Michael Barenboim (son of Daniel) has in spades. ...
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ArticleBartók: String Quartet no.3, Dvorák: String Quartet no.11 in C major op.61, Mozart: String Quartet no.20 in D major K499 ‘Hoffmeister'
The Strad Issue: February 2017Description: Salzburg recordings from 1965 in slightly compromised soundMusicians: Juilliard QuartetComposer: Bartók, Dvorák, MozartCatalogue number: ORFEO C927 161B Live Juilliard performances can be illuminating, but here the tape imparts a tremulous quality to the strings. In a purposeful Allegretto to Mozart’s ‘Hoffmeister’, tangy ...
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ArticleBartók by Heart. Bartók: Complete String Quartets
The Strad Issue: January 2017Description: The Chiara pulls off the feat of playing Bartók's quartets from memoryMusicians: Chiara QuartetComposer: BartókCatalogue number: AZICA ACD 71310 (2 CDs) The title of this disc is literally true: the Chiara Quartet plays from memory. This mnemonical feat must surely play a ...
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ReviewBartók: Violin Concerto no.2; Concerto for Orchestra
The Strad Issue: July 2016Description: A monumental Montreal performance of Bartók’s Second Violin ConcertoMusicians: Augustin Dumay (violin) Montreal Symphony Orchestra/Kent NaganoComposer: BartókCatalogue number: ONYX 4138 (2 CDs) Just too long for a single CD at over 81 minutes, this coupling of two of Bartók’s late masterpieces arrives ...
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ArticleJennifer Stumm viola masterclass: Bartók Concerto
To me this piece is about contrasts between light and dark, speaking and singing, and tension and relaxation'Jennifer Stumm, Chair of Viola Studies at the Royal College of Music, presents a masterclass on the Bartók Viola Concerto at the 2014 SÁo Paulo Viola Day.Watch: Tabea Zimmermann performs Bartók's ...
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ArticleTabea Zimmermann performs Bartók's Viola Concerto
Tabea Zimmermann performs Bartók's Viola Concerto with the Berlin Philharmonic conducted by Semyon Bychkov in June 2010. Read: Violist Tabea Zimmermann on technique, teaching and competitions
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ReviewBartók: Violin Concerto no.1. Brahms: Violin Concerto in D major op.77
The Strad Issue: March 2016Description: Celestial sweetness in an odd couple of concertosMusicians: Janine Jansen (violin) Orchestra of the National Academy of Santa Cecilia, London Symphony Orchestra/Antonio PappanoComposer: Bartók; BrahmsThe connections Janine Jansen makes between these two concertos in the booklet notes may be sketchy but it ...
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Article15-year-old violinist Ziyu He performs Bartók at 2014 Eurovision Young Musicians Final
Chinese violinist Ziyu He, a student at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, performs the first movement of Bartók's Second Concerto at the Eurovision Young Musicians competition Grand Final in 2014, which he won.The young musician, now aged 16, has recently won the International Mozart Competition Salzburg 2016.
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ArticleChristel Lee performs Bartók at the 2015 Sibelius Competition
Christel Lee performs the first movement of Bartók's Second Violin Concerto in the final of the 2015 International Jean Sibelius Violin Competition. The US violinist was named the competition winner and received €25,000.Watch: Christel Lee performs Sibelius’s Violin Concerto in 2014
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