Concertos for Piano and Orchestra Nos. 2 & 3

Album by Béla Bartók & ORF Radio‐Symphonieorchester Wien & Milan Horvat & Carl Melles & Alexander Jenner & Clara Matec

Concertos for Piano and Orchestra Nos. 2 and 3 are piano concertos by Hungarian composer Béla Bartók, composed in 1931 and 1945 respectively. They combine virtuosic piano writing, complex rhythms and folk-influenced modal harmonies within a modernist harmonic language, with the second concerto representing his intense, rhythmically driven middle-period style and the third, completed near the end of his life, showing a more transparent, restrained approach characteristic of his late style.