Hungary - The Last Passage

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Label
Ocora Radio-France
Release Date
August 29, 2025
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    Featuring
    • COMPOSER
      Various
    • PERFORMER
      Various
    Product Details
    • RELEASE DATE
      August 29, 2025
    • UPC
      3415820001026
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      C 583031
    • LABEL
      Ocora Radio-France
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE

This recording is a witness to the last passage of a rich musical heritage that fascinated figures such as Bela Bartok and Zoltan Kodaly: the last masters and the first disciples are reunited, who will be the reference for subsequent generations in a completely different social context. Numerous styles of dance and song - often accompanied by the recorder, bagpipes, reed, hurdy-gurdy, zither, tambura lute, violin, cymbalum, gardon viol (with struck strings) or spoons- form the basis of traditional Hungarian music: songs of the old style linked to weddings, traditional quests, winter and summer solstice bonfires...; and the new style nourished by contributions from Serbian, Swabian and Slovakian neighbouring cultures...; As for the Gypsies, dance and a cappella songs play a predominant role, in a style that is often spectacular and whose vocabulary, sometimes very bold, is that of everyday life, mixed with the most delicate poetry.