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The Doric String Quartet plays all six of Béla Bartók's quartets in one day at this year's Aldeburgh Festival.

A disappointing outing for the Emerson String Quartet in the first Sydney concert of their eight-city tour of Australia.

An astonishing performance of the Bartók string quartets by the Takács Quartet in Cleveland left our reviewer, Tim hard pressed to imagine better. The players found moments of beauty in these difficult works.

Bartók used folk music to find his own voice as a composer of classical music. He roamed the Balkans, north Africa and the Middle East to rediscover models of what was really music to his ears, much in the same spirit as Picasso and others searched out models of primitive representations to refresh what we see.