Donald Macleod on Bartok's sickly childhood, early life and musical beginnings, including his first major work, Kossuth, influenced by Strauss and inspired by a revolutionary. Show more

Donald Macleod focuses on the years leading up to World War I, including Bartok's discovery of folksong and his friendship with Kodaly. Show more

Donald Macleod explores the circumstances of Bartok's second marriage and his subsequent re-emergence as a composer and pianist of international renown. With the Cantata Profana. Show more

Donald Macleod explores Bartok's crisis of confidence during World War I and the chance encounter with a young girl that revitalised him. Featuring the Miraculous Mandarin Suite. Show more

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. Show more