Pierre Boulez’s autumnal series of recordings for Deutsche Grammophon has turned out to be, predictably enough, a mixed blessing. But when the old fox is on, it’s an event. Such is the case with this ...

VIOLINIST Diomedes Saraza Jr. with MSO under Arturo Molina: An electrifying Bartok No. 2! The Manila Symphony Orchestra under Arturo Molina made another tour de force last Saturday by playing a rarely ...

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 ...

Augustin Hadelich. Photo courtesy of the artist’s website. Hungarian composer Béla Bartók wrote his second violin concerto in 1937-38, thirty years after his first. Today regarded as one of 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 ...

Bartok’s first violin concerto, written in the first decade of the 20th century but not published until after his death in 1945, used to be a rarity in concert programs and recordings. But it’s become ...

Sakari Oramo conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in Bartok's 2nd Violin Concerto with Alina Ibragimova and the Symphony Chorus join for Vaughan Williams' cantata Dona Nobis Pacem. Plus, a new work by ...

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 ...

The opening movement of Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto has a kind of confused identity. Is it a fast movement or a slow one in disguise? Years ago I heard a performance so strung- out it sounded as if ...

Here’s yet another fearsomely talented young violinist making her mark on CD, this time the German-Japanese Arabella Steinbacher. She brings great warmth to the lyrical First Concerto by Bartók, ...

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 ...