Concerto for Orchestra
Concerto for orchestra by Béla BartókWikipedia
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Oct 21, 2026
Kurt NikkanenGUEST
It wasn't this piece necessarily.
Kurt NikkanenGUEST
I think it was the Concerto for Orchestra, but I always wanted to play something of Bartók.
Kurt NikkanenGUEST
Wait a minute.
Robert MillerHOST
Why? What was it about Bartók that turned you on?
Brian BalmagesHOST
When we're working on a piece and we get stuck, one of the things we might do is listen to another piece of music that has nothing to do with it at all.
Brian BalmagesHOST
May-maybe I'm working on a saxophone concerto, so I listen to the Bartók Concerto for Orchestra, right? Or maybe I'm writing a, a, a s- a clarinet sonata, and I go and I listen to the, the, the, uh, the Hammersmith or whatever it might be, and just saying, "What is there to take from this? What are things that, that might inspire me?" And so I absolutely adore this idea of leaving your discipline and just going into another, not another world, but another room in the same world and seeing-
Richard FloydGUEST
Mm-hmm
Brian BalmagesHOST
... what's happening there and what can you take back with you to then make your world, uh, your room a bigger and more beautiful place.
Lisa SimeoneHOST
Béla Bartók was in a New York hospital being treated for leukemia in 1943 when a commission arrived to write a substantial work for a large symphony orchestra.
Lisa SimeoneHOST
Bartók checked himself out, went to a lakeside cottage, and produced his Concerto for Orchestra in under two months.
Lisa SimeoneHOST
This is a Hungarian in New York, fusing the rhythms of his homeland with the energy and swagger of the Big Apple.
Lisa SimeoneHOST
On this week's Chicago Symphony Orchestra program, Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts Bartok's colorful and life-affirming score.
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Lisa SimeoneHOST
Thank you.
Lisa SimeoneHOST
a toccata on the chorale Alain Gott in der Höhe sei Ehr, music by Ivers Kales, and encore by organist Iveta Apkalna.
Lisa SimeoneHOST
Still to come, after a concerto-like piece for organ, we'll hear a concerto for orchestra.
Lisa SimeoneHOST
Bela Bartok's masterful portrait of orchestral virtuosity is next.
Evan KeelyGUEST
Yes
John BantherHOST
... including Bartók's Concerto for Orchestra.
John BantherHOST
But especially, he was commissioning music by American composers, but during his lifetime, this was only happening if they were white composers.
Evan KeelyGUEST
Yeah.