3/5. Bartok's passion for collecting and arranging folk songs faltered over a crisis in his own compositional style. In the rapidly changing musical landscape, he stopped composing altogether for a few years and struggled to find his own voice.
Donald Macleod looks at Bartok's middle years.
Eight Improvisations on Hungarian Peasant Songs, No 2 Murray Perahia (piano) Out of Doors, Nos 1, 3 and 6 Joanna McGregor (piano)
String Quartet No 3 Emerson Quartet Piano Concerto No 2 Zoltan Kocsis ,
Budapest Festival Orchestra, conductor Ivan FiSCher Repeated on Tuesday at 12 midnight