The Concerto for Orchestra was composer Bela Bartok's last completed work; he did not live to finish either the Third Piano Concerto or the Viola Concerto that followed it. In these last works ...

It was a novel idea when Bela Bartok came up with it in the early 1940's: a concerto not for a single solo instrument, but for the entire orchestra at the same time, with melodic lines and ideas ...

(Courtesy of Empire State Youth Orchestra) Six minutes into the Bartok Viola Concerto, Yu-Heng Wang started to get nervous. He was rapidly approaching the second movement, and there was no ...

“It’s going to be a unique experience for us all.” The second winner, Switzer, will perform the Bartók Viola Concerto as a featured soloist in a separate concert next season. Switzer, who began ...

364 - DANIEL BARENBOIM/Staatskapelle Berlin This is a work that really put composer William Walton on the map. His Viola Concerto quickly became an established part of the instrument’s repertoire, ...

The Third Concerto is a more lyrical work than its two predecessors, less ferociously percussive. The piece was written near the end of Bartok's life, which perhaps accounts for its reflective ...

Serenity Thurlow, Principal Viola with the Christchurch Symphony, is stepping centre-stage to perform Bartók's Viola Concerto.

So violists rarely appear as orchestral soloists, and then most likely in Berlioz's not-quite-a-concerto Harold in Italy. Although numerous 20th-century composers produced viola concertos ...