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Composer of the Week

Music: Classical

An informative guide to composers' lives and their music.

An informative and accessible guide to composers' lives and their music.

Composer of the Week: Bela Bartok (1881-1945)

Composer of the Week: Bela Bartok (1881-1945): Episode 5: Slide into War and Exile

Bela Bartok (1881-1945)

Episode 5

Episode 5: Slide into War and Exile

Slide into War and Exile

BBC Radio 3 - Composer of the Week, Bela Bartok (1881-1945), Slide into War and Exile

Donald Macleod explores Bartok's final years and his move to America during World War II.

Donald Macleod focuses on Bartok's life as a Hungarian emigre in America and his final years away from the land he had once loved.

Donald Macleod explores the life and career of composer Bela Bartok (1881-1945), one of the most influential composers of the 20th Century. As Europe slipped into World War II, Bartok wrote to a friend of how he felt the whole world was drifting into evil, restlessness and terror...and of the need to go far from the vicinity of what he called the "pestilence-ridden lands. Today's programme explores Bartok life as a Hungarian émigré in America and his final years away from the land he'd once loved.

String Quartet 6; 3rd movement
Vertavo String Quartet

Ten Hungarian Folksongs: BB42; No. 1: Elindultam szep hazambul (I left my fair homeland)
Stefan Margita (tenor)
Katerina Englichova (harp)

Mikrokosmos;
Vol I: No. 16: Andante Rubato
Vol II: No. 37: In Lydian Mode: Allegretto
Vol III: No.86: Two major Pentachords
Vol IV: No. 100: In the style of a folksong
Vol V: No. 135: Perpetuum Mobile
Vol VI: No. 147: March
No. 142: From the Diary of a Fly (1'30)
No. 152: Six Dances in Bulgarian Rhythm [5] 57"
No. 146: Ostinato 2'10
Dezso Ranki (piano)

Concerto for Orchestra; 3rd, 4th and 5th movements
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Sir Simon Rattle (conductor)

Piano Concerto No. 3; 3rd movement
Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana
Martha Argerich (piano)
Alexander Vedernikov (conductor).

Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

Donald Macleod explores the life and career of Hungarian composer Bela Bartok

Donald Macleod explores the life and career of Hungarian musician Bela Bartok, one of the most influential composers of the 20th century

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