These pieces were included on an irresistible collection of Bartók’s complete choral music released last year on the same label. Buy that, then get this disc too; the performances are equally ...

Historically-informed recordings of Bach's Brandenburgs are the norm now. Which is a good thing, though exposure to each new set can leave me craving a bit of naughty inauthenticity – those old modern ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. It seems the piano music of eastern Europe is at last getting the wider recognition it deserves. On this disc ...

A reluctant revolutionary who tried to adapt the natural rhythms and phrasing of ancient Hungarian folksongs to mainstream classical music, or a subversive reactionary who all but brought the Western ...

The 26 September 2015 marks the 70th anniversary of the death of the Hungarian composer Béla Bartók, one of the most important composers of the 20th century, who became famous not only for his ...

It is fascinating to compare this 2008 recording of Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta with the one that Kocsis and his co-founding conductor at the Budapest Festival Orchestra Iván Fischer ...