(The) Wooden Prince BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Thomas Dausgaard, Conductor Divertimento BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Thomas Dausgaard, Conductor Romanian Folkdances BBC Scottish Symphony ...

Music has a life-giving force and uncanny power of resilience. Bela Bartók’s Concerto for Orchestra was written on what many thought was the composer’s deathbed, but bringing it into the world gave ...

Composer Bela Bartok collects field recordings of folk songs from Czech peasants. It moved him deeply. From that moment on, the 23-year-old dedicated himself to the collection, study and presentation ...

James Ehnes's outstanding Bartók series for Chandos continues with the early romantic Sonata BB 28 (1903), Hungarian Folk Songs and Romanian Folk Dances. The key work, however, is the unaccompanied ...

Classical music has never lived in a bubble. There has always been a free flow of ideas intersecting so-called art music and folk music. In this concert from Boston, they all come together: The ...

Considered one of the greatest composers of the 20th century Béla Bartók, was one of the founders of the field of ethnomusicology. Bartók had an affinity for Rumanian folk traditions because he felt ...