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Budapest Music Center
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Budapest Music Center Recordings
With mallets and strings - Ildikó Vékony
$17.99
(cdRoots# bmc-134)
Performances on solo cimbalom of J.S. Bach's 'Partita No. 3 in E major' and 'Sonata No. 1 in G minor.' The artist says: 'Why this music? ...you may ask. Some pieces I have been playing for ages; others I have always wanted to play. Some are not really my world, (but sometimes we long for another world); some are pieces I have been waiting for, and yet I needed years to uncover their deeper meaning. And some have jolted me out of my habits, highlighting for me the moment when a sound is born.'
Poliphonic Vespers for St. Michael’s and St. Martin's Day - Schola Hungarica
$17.99
(cdRoots# bmc-128)
n 1571, a widow called Anna Hannsen Schuman donated a highly valuable manuscript to the collegiate chapter of Pozsony. The codex contains 239 polyphonic works, almost all for the enrichment of evening vespers. This disc highlights two vespers from the collection: that for the feast of Saint Martin, patron saint of the church, and that for Saint Michael, which falls close to it in the calendar. As in the practice of the time, the prescribed Gregorian chant and their polyphonic arrangements were mixed as necessary in the liturgy, so this disc mixes the two.
Singapore - Grupa Palotaď
$18.99
(cdRoots# bmc-133)
The ensemble of composer Csaba Palotaď (guitar, baritone guitar, percussion), with Rémi “Wildmimi” Sciuto on alto, baritone and sopranino sax,Thomas de Pourquery on alto and soprano sax, Nicolas Mathuriauon drums, percussion and Didier Havet - sousaphone offers a personal and chaotic musical experience, part film noir, part jazz, all original. Listen
Árgyélus - Mihaly Dresch Quartet
$18.99
(cdRoots# bmc-131)
Hungarian saxophonist and compoer Mihály Dresch 's 2007 release. The artist says: I have the feeling that people today are missing a kind of organic musical culture based on a clear overview of a system, typical for example of traditional Indian music or the Transylvanian music of our ancestors. Yet it would seem that at present we are unable to create a new musical system at this level, so we try, piecemeal fashion, to tack together the systems we consider important. The result of this ‘piecing together’ is inevitably a fragmentary culture. Listen
Check it out, Igor - Bela Szakcsi Lakatos and Miklos Lukacs
$17.99
(cdRoots# bmc-108)
Béla Szakcsi Lakatos, piano and Miklós Lukács on cimbalom offer some wild and far-ranging improvised musical duests drawing on the musical grammar of Roman and Hungarian Gypsy tradition, classical keyboard from the Baroque to Bartók, and jazz styles from barrelhouse to bebop to Braxton. Challenging doesn't begin to describe it!
La manivelle magyare - La Campagnie des musiques a ouir
$17.99
(cdRoots# bmc-113)
Three talented young French musicians, Denis Charolles, Frederic Gastard and Christophe Monniot produce the sound of a 25-piece orchestra, with a repertoire that extends from popular folk numbers, to pop music, to their own compositions. It's all quite mad and challenging, all the more so by the inclusion of three of Hungary's best and most adventurous jazz musicians: guitarist Gábor Gadó, pianist Béla Szakcsi and violinist Balázs Bujtor.
Meselia Hill - Mihaly Borbely Quartet
$17.99
(cdRoots# bmc-105)
Mihály Borbélyplays clarinet and jazz saxophone as well kaval flute and tárogató (a wooden soprano saxophone) joined by an ensemble of piano, bass and drums with guests Zoltán Lantos (violin) and Miklós Lukács (cimbalom). Says Michael Stone in RootsWorld, "If Bartók played not-so-straight-ahead jazz, it might sound like the Borbély Quartet, combining Serbian, Slovak, Gypsy, Jewish and German folk influences with classical music, shot through with that thing that swings. Roland Kirk would understand."
Modern dances for the advanced in age - Gabor Gado
$17.99
(cdRoots# bmc-111)
Hungarian guitarist Gábor Gadó and his ensemble offer "a tongue-in-cheek sextet rounded out by a pair of saxes, trumpet, trombone, bass and drums... a certain down-at-the-heels dancehall feel: odd time changes, droll, edgy tango, cha cha and calypso, a guitar owing as much to Hendrix, Hawaii and heavy metal as to Wes Montgomery and George Benson, while the spirits of Johnny Mercer and Henry Mancini drift by for the album closer, 'Moon River,' a place you've never been but might want to reconnoiter." - RootsWorld
Around the world - Elmer Balasz Group
$17.99
(cdRoots# bmc-064)
The Hungarian drummer and his ensemble of piano, bass, guitar and percussion in a set of jazz based on Hungarian roots, with Mihály Dresch on flute, David Yengibarjan on accordion, and vocalists Gábor Winand and Henriett Czerovszky.
StompyTrashy - Grupa Palotai
$17.99
(cdRoots# bmc-114)
Hungarian guitarist Csaba Palotaď and his ensemble of Sousaphone, reeds and drums is definately NOT exploring the roots of Hungarian folk. This brazen ensemble may have a few folk fronds in its melodies, but this is brash jazz with rock underpinnings, rife with humor and energy. Shades of New Orleans, bebop, Zappa and fellow Hungarian Dresch are just the tip of the iceberg on a diverse set of challenging yet merry works of music.
Tango Passion - Trio Yengibarjan
$17.99
(cdRoots# bmc-051)
An unexpected angle on the tango from this Hungarian trio of David Yengibarjan - accordion; József Barcza Horváth - bass and Gábor Judhasz - guitar. Three works by Piazzolla, the rest original compositions by Yengibarjan provide a unique view of the musical genre and some steps beyond it.
Straight Music - Mihaly Dresch Quartet
$17.99
(cdRoots# bmc-093)
The Hungarian composer/saxophonist says: 'I realised that music requires the whole person, including who they are and where they are from – that's what sounds through the instrument. I realised I would never be able to make music from the same impulse as Coltrane, Griffin, and the other masters. That's how I came to need to play out my own experience. When I was practising, I noticed that while my first small pieces were taking shape, I was thinking of my grandparents. Ever since, this has been important: my loved ones should be present in my spirit.' Mihály Dresch - tenor and soprano, saxophones, traditional recorder; Ferenc Kovács - violin; Mátyás Szandai - double bass; István Baló - drums; with Kálmán Balogh - cimbalom; Mátyás Bólya - koboz (Hungarian lute); Anna Dresch - vocals
Pandoukht - David Yengibarjan and Frank London
$17.99
(cdRoots# bmc-087)
David Yengibarjan - accordion; Frank London - trumpet; József Barcza Horváth - bass; András Dés - percussion; with guest guitarist Gábor Gadó.
Tótágas - Dél-Alföldi Saxophone Ensemble
$17.99
(cdRoots# bmc-115)
When Hungarians want to say that too many cooks spoil the broth, they say that 'two pipers in the same inn are one too many.' Yet these three pipers (saxophonists) get on like a house on fire. They are: Béla Ágoston, Béla Burány and Balázs Szokolay. Joined by Róbert Benko on double bass and Tamás Geröly Sándor on drums, they cook up a storm of reeds both rattling and sublime.
Na dara! - Szakcsi Lakatos Trio
$17.99
(cdRoots# bmc-103)
A fine straight jazz trio from Hungary - Béla Szakcsi Lakatos - piano; György Orbán - double bass; András Peczek Lakatos - drums - and a recording made great by two marvelous vocalists - Mónika Rostás and Csaba Rostás.
Quiet as it is - Mihály Dresch
$17.99
(cdRoots# bmc-055)
The saxophonist and composer continues his adventurous jazz exploration of his eastern European roots, joined by a quartet - Ferenc Kovács - violin, trumpet; Balázs Unger - cimbalom; Mátyás Szandai - double bass; István Baló - drums. Says choreographer Csaba Horváth, 'I have never heard music like his, music that draws upon folk music but instead of treating or adapting it, enters fully into the spirit of it, relives every moment of it inwardly. In my eyes Mihály Dresch is an intuitive artist who experiences the world vulnerable and defenceless, but the roots of his work go so deep as to make it unassailable.'
Hungarian Bebop - Mihály Dresch / Archie Shepp
$17.99
(cdRoots# bmc-066)
Dresch and his quartet are joined by the legendary saxophonist and pianist Shepp on another trip through the musical folklore of Hungary, interpolating it into the language of bebop. Special guest Kalman Balogh contributes cimbalom on one track.
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