Lebrecht Weekly | Marmen Quartet Excels in Ligeti & Bartok String Quartets
It’s 30 years since I heard Gyorgy Ligeti explain why he was allowing his first string quartet to be performed after four decades lying in…
Browsing: Béla Bartók
Lebrecht Weekly | Folk Songs: Magdalena Kozena/Simon Rattle (Pentatone)
Nothing seemed to add up on my first encounter with Magdalena Kozena’s trawl through four sets of folk songs orchestrated by Bela Bartok, Luciano Berio, Maurice Ravel and the Spaniard Xavier Montsalvatge.
Highlights | Canadians Question Identity of Singer-Songwriter Buffy Sainte-Marie
The country is wondering about the identity of singer-songwriter and activist Buffy Sainte-Marie after a new CBC investigation that contradicts her decades-old claims to Indigenous heritage.
Newswire | Seven Landmark Concerts for the Molinari Quartet’s 25th Anniversary
Montréal, August 24, 2022 – The upcoming season of the Molinari Quartet will bear witness to the undeniable talent of this world-renowned Montreal-based ensemble, while…
Bartok: Concerto, Enescu: Octet (Warner Classics)
The one thing that keeps me from awarding this album the full five stars is that it is upside down. It opens with a perfectly decent…
Lebrecht Weekly – Bartók: 44 Duos (Decca)
It has been an age since I looked to my shelves for a work by a major composer and found that, after 40 years of…
