Performance

Concerto for Orchestra

4 upcoming performances in New York

Béla Bartók’s *Concerto for Orchestra* (1943) is a five-movement score that treats the orchestra itself as the soloist, handing distinct voices to sections and individual players. Written during his American years, it became a key document of wartime modernism that still reads clearly in the concert hall. In New York, it carries local resonance through Bartók’s late-career ties to the city’s musical institutions. One hears a hard-won balance between folk-inflected bite and architectural control.