Podcasts from the San Francisco Symphony and Music Director Michael Tilson Thomas.
Tuesday, March 7, 2017
Bartók's Concerto for Orchestra
After fleeing Hungary during World War II for the United States, Béla Bartók was commissioned by Serge Koussevitzky, conductor of the Boston Symphony, to write a piece for orchestra. This resulted in one of Bartók’s best-known works, the Concerto for Orchestra, which contains a parody of Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 7.
