"•Containing both the old and the new, this album features not only Béla Bartók’s 44 Duos but also all the existing original field recordings made by Bartók in the early 20th century of the folk music that inspired them. • The purpose of this albumis to connect the listener to these original folk melodies. • The field recordings appear here—for the first time together on one album—with permission from the varied sources that house them in Austria, Slovakia, and Hungary."