3.00pm Building a Library: Bartok's Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta Kate Molleson talks to Andrew and recommends her personal choice to buy, download or stream.

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The first performance took place in 1932. Bartok's interest in folk music inspired his work. This is seen with the frequent use of modes rather than scales with actual folk melodies and rhythms ...

But even it manages to work up a little dance. Thibaudet supplied all the technical whiz-bang and sass one could want, but ...