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“Here’s a diary entry from July 24, 1974: ‘Argument with Bill Bruford. Bill says, ‘They might as well get a session guitarist’”: The making of Red, the album that pushed King Crimson to the brink

Robert Fripp digs into his long-unopened personal diaries with Guitar World as he shares the story of the relentlessly heavy and ambitious 1974 prog classic

Guitar World

The Guardian view on 20th-century composers: play it again, maestro

Radio 3’s celebration of Pierre Boulez is a chance to revisit “difficult” music and break down divisions between old and new styles

The Guardian - UK

György Pauk obituary

Consummate Hungarian violinist who was a distinguished interpreter of the music of his compatriot Béla Bartók

The Guardian - UK

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“John Peel said we were a waste of talent and electricity… It had become de rigueur to knock us”: Emerson Lake & Palmer and the making of Brain Salad Surgery

The prog supergroup were at their creative peak when they created the 1973 epic that took the world by storm, despite the apparent hordes of critics

Louder

“I’ve never played a barre chord in my life. I hate them. You don’t need more than two or three notes to express a chord”: Andy Summers on his “abstracted instrumental” collabs with Robert Fripp, his dream pedalboard, and what he learned from Béla Bartók

It was the ’80s and Andy Summers was living the dream as guitar culture grew, and his side-project with King Crimson's mad-genius Fripp gave him the opportunity to work his art-house cinema influences into music

Guitar World

Béla Bartók: pioneering Hungarian composer who fused folk melodies with classical music

Considered one of the great composers of the 20th century, the deeply expressive Béla Bartók synthesised elements of folk music of Hungarian and related cultures into classical forms, producing a style that was both individual and influential.

The Conversation

Ukraine’s Hungarians in spotlight as Orbán threatens to block EU accession

In Hungarian-majority villages in Zakarpattia region, many feel little connection to the war and side with Hungarian leader

The Guardian - UK

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Bluebeard’s Castle review – Michael Powell’s amazing serial-killer opera film

Powell’s expressionist-hallucinatory adaptation of Bartók features a blazing performance by Ana Raquel Satre as Bluebeard’s bride

The Guardian - UK

Fall classical music preview: An early-music collaboration and 10 more highlights of the season

Riccardo Muti returns, Lyric Opera goes to sea and Newberry Consort joins forces for the first time with Haymarket Opera Company.

Chicago Sun-Times

The week in classical: Proms 38 & 39; Prom 40; Trouble in Tahiti – review

Three Hungarian-inspired proms combine sizzling energy, Bartók and dadaist absurdity, while an intimate staging ramps up the angst in a bite-size Bernstein

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