Classical music has never lived in a bubble. There has always been a free flow of ideas intersecting so-called art music and folk music. In this concert from Boston, they all come together: The ...

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We hear two pieces from a concert Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg gave with the Assad Brothers at this summer's Aspen Music Festival. The violinist joined the two guitarists to play first the Romanian Folk ...

Considered one of the greatest composers of the 20th century Béla Bartók, was one of the founders of the field of ethnomusicology. Bartók had an affinity for Rumanian folk traditions because he felt ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The intricate weave of Mat Maneri’s raspy viola and Lucian Ban’s full-bodied piano has been a jazz pleasure for ...

Violinist Solomiya Ivakhiv, accompanied by pianist Magdalena Stern-Baczewska, brought stunning energy and grace to the Jorgensen Center for Performing Arts Monday evening as they performed a two-hour ...

With its joie de vivre, the "Dance Suite" was Bartok's first big success on the world stage. Cem Mansur describes it as "a brilliant masterpiece - no one knows where folk music begins and 'modern' ...

The Hungarian was one of the most important composers of the 20th century, but he wasn’t always to everyone’s taste Exiled: Béla Bartók left Hungary during World War II Fond memories of fine dining in ...

The revolutionaries of early 20th-century music may not be well-loved, but at least they’re well-known. Everyone can recognise the gnomelike figure of Igor Stravinsky, and Arnold Schoenberg is famous ...

This wide-ranging selection of folk dances, classical miniatures and pop tunes showcases the close links between music and the human impulse to dance. Brothers Braimah and Sheku Kanneh-Mason and the ...