László Sándor : Two Hungarian Folk Song Arrangements
Attila Bozay: Mirror, Op. 28
Miklós Lukács: Improvisation
György Kurtág: Tre Pezzi, Tre altre Pezzi op. 38a
Mátyás Bolya - Samu Gryllus: Prisoner Song
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Ádám Kondor: Hungarian Folk Song Forms
Gyula Fekete: All’ Ongherese
Péter Tóth: Death Flowers —world premiere, commissioned by UMZE Ensemble
Miklós Lukács: Improvizáció
Balázs Horváth: With Men's Eye / With Woman's Eye
Balázs Horváth
Ágnes Herczku soprano
András Szalai, Miklós Lukács cimbalom
Mátyás Bolya kobza
Balázs Szokolay Dongó flute
Helga Debreczeni Kis citer
All’Ongherese – Hungarian style… Goulash, paprika, at best the csardas dance, or if we are cultured, folk music, Bartók and Kodály.
How did composers relate to Hungarian folk music in past decades and what is their attitude to it today? Adaptation, transformation, folk gestures. Allusions, instrumental improvisation. Folk performance styles and new-music techniques, jazz and world-music tendencies. The list of modern approaches to Hungarian folk music is endless. By spotlighting some of these alternatives, we would like to join the audience in seeking to discover whether a work will be different if its creation is inspired by disparate aesthetic motives. Because the works’ composers are extremely diverse – and not only considering the time when they were born.