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 ...

Isabelle Faust's recording of Bartók's violin concertos marks her long-awaited return to a composer with whose sonatas she was closely associated early in her career. The first concerto was neither ...

Brahms and Bartók make unlikely companions. In playing the Brahms concerto so introspectively and then focusing on the sense of mystery that opens Bartók’s Violin Concerto No. 1 Janine Jansen finds a ...

Banjo wizard Béla Fleck has crafted a fascinating career from infiltration. He's embedded his instrument in musical zones from jazz to classical to West African music. Now he's written himself a ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. “Romantic” is not the first word that comes to mind with Bartók, but there is no mistaking the romantic influences ...

In many performances of the Bartok Solo Sonata its legendary difficulty is more apparent than its beauty and nobility: the violinist sweats profusely in a cloud of resin dust, his bow reduced to a ...

Last year, Janine Jansen filled Auckland Town Hall playing Tchaikovsky with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, her performance melting all but the stoniest of hearts. The Dutch violinist's new CD ...

Sir Yehudi Menuhin's second recording of Bartok's Second Violin Concerto under Antal Dorati (he made three with him in all, plus one under Furtwangler, now on EMI References, 10/89) was taped at ...

Bartók's two violin concertos were composed three decades apart, and Isabelle Faust here skilfully brings out the contrasts between youth and maturity, particularly in her detailed attention to the ...

Isabelle Faust, as she explains in her excellent booklet notes accompanying this CD, has a particular penchant for the violin music of Bartók, fostered by her studies with a violinist who knew the ...

The young Belgian violinist Yossif Ivanov (born 1986) here tackles two key 20th-century concertos, Bartók’s Second of 1938 and Shostakovich’s First, which was written in 1948 but kept in a drawer ...