Most swing enthusiasts are bored by highbrow music; most concertgoers are irritated by swing. But the world’s No. 1 highbrow fiddler, Joseph Szigeti,* and the world’s No. 1 swing clarinetist, Benny ...

To finish our hour of Hungarian music, Franz Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody No. 3. Liszt was imitating the sound of Hungarian gypsy musicians. This spring, the Budapest Festival Orchestra played the piece ...

Proudly in the front rank of contemporary composers stands Bela Bartók, Hungarian. Symphonophiles the world over know him for a revolutionist, remember his music for its brutality, its stark rhythms.

György Pauk, who has died aged 88, was a Hungarian-born violinist who defected to the west and made his na me in Britain as a musician of rare talent and acute virtuosity; he was the performer of ...