Browse: DVD Video, Bartók (composer)

Lang Lang has the necessary power and athleticism to bring tremendous energy and drive to [Prokofiev's] more motoric writing...[he] sails through the passagework [of the Bartok] with exemplary... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2013, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Sixty rewarding minutes with the wise, benevolent Takacs-Nagy exploring a single movement of Bartok's Fifth Quartet, as played by four talented Danes. — BBC Music Magazine, March 2013, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Apart from its virtues as a brilliant piece of programming…this concert should be snapped up by Prokofiev lovers. It’s been a long time since we’ve had an electric performance of his seismic... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2017, 4 out of 5 stars More…

A solid, uncontroversial staging of Duke Bluebeard’s Castle which works well – with two outstanding performers – bonded to a perverse one of Poulenc’s monodrama which does not. — Opera, March 2019 More…

This compilation commemorates his later recordings, and reminds us that he was not purely an early-music specialist. — New York Times, 24th November 2016 More…