There are occasional moments in Bartók’s String Quartet No. 1 when the gloom lifts, when the densely woven musical lines pause momentarily for a spot of pure, consonant sunniness. In the string ...

One of the best ways to get to know a composer’s works is to hear them in sequence. That’s what the Penderecki String Quartet is enabling us to do with a survey of Bela Bartok’s six string quartets at ...

Béla Bartók’s six string quartets are nearly universally regarded as a summit of 20th-century chamber music. Their prestige can spill over to those ensembles that play these challenging works ...

The first American performance of Bartok’s six string quartets as a cycle took place in 1948, less than three years after the composer’s death. Serge Koussevitzky, who had commissioned Bartok’s ...

The Tesla Quartet announces A Bartók Journey, an exploration of the complete string quartets of Béla Bartók over six weeks in March-June 2021. Each week will focus on one string quartet and features ...

The Takács Quartet traveled to the Savannah Music Festival to play Bela Bartók's knotty, challenging String Quartet No. 4. But how did they warm up the crowd? With a slice of insistent, lyrical ...

The Takács Quartet’s roots in Bartok’s string quartets run deep. Founded in 1975, the foursome, originally all Hungarians, learned Bartok’s music with the violinist Zoltán Székely, the composer’s ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Tonight, January 18, Takács Quartet presents quartets numbers 1, 3, and 5, ...

The Takács Quartet traveled to the Savannah Music Festival to play Bela Bartók's knotty, challenging String Quartet No. 4. But how did they warm up the crowd? With a slice of insistent, lyrical ...

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