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Raymond Switzer & László Makay

Whither can a lover go?/Hová mehet a szerelmes?

The album has elements of Middle Eastern, Hungarian folk, Hungarian Roma, Spanish Roma, and Columbian music. The lyrics were taken from the collection of verses entitled The Hidden Words by Bahá’u’lláh, founder of the baha'i Faith.

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Hungarian State Folk Ensemble DVD

Hungarian Concerto

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Metrofolk

Renegades of Folk

Traditional Gypsy, Hungarian, Romanian, and Jewish folk music and songs from Transylvania, freshly interpreted on the streets and subways of New York City.

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Peter

Peter i Prijatelji

This is a Croatian album performed on folk intruments called Tambure from Croatia. This particular album features a guest vocalist on each track selection from different regions of Croatia.

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David Hatfield

David Hatfield Plays RBP

ROYALTY FREE. Catchy. Up beat. You'll automatically start tapping your feet whether you want to or not. So grab something not fragile to bang on and join in.

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Nikola Parov

Naplegenda/Sunlegend

A fresh, creative dance show performance reflecting 21st century’s demands, representing the cult of the sun and its role in our lives, the relationship between its orbit and the way and turns of human life with unique means of art.

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Hungarian State Folk Ensemble

Hungarian Concerto

Folkloric music of Hungaria performed by a top notch ensemble.

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Hungarian State Folk Ensemble

Verbunkos

Performed by the orchestra of the Hungarian State Folk Ensemble, this album features some of the best of Hungarian folk music.

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Budapest Dance Ensemble

Csárdás The Tango of the East 1999

The music of the their first tour of North America with Csardas The Tango of the East. The musicians represent the very best in Hungary's folk music life.

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Gázsa

Music And Dances From The Carpathians

Music and dances from the Carpathians (Hungarian music from Hungary, Slovakia, and Transylvania)

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Hungarian State Folk Ensemble

Verbunkos

Performed by the orchestra of the Hungarian State Folk Ensemble, this album features some of the best of Hungarian folk music.

“Recruitment Songs” (verbunks) conjures up the Age of Romanticism and national revival in Hungary. The contemporary society created “national” forms of music and dance through a process of countrywide “globalisation”; this resulted in a common dance dialect that existed above the different traditions belonging to the various regions. During this process the tastes and fashions of different social strata were unified through the careful mediation of contemporary dance gurus. This performance is a memorial to the development of the “national dance”, and its survival in folk tradition. In the first part we give the viewers a glimpse of archaic dance forms (jumping dances, whirling dances, pair dances, and military dances), which were used as source material during the unifying programmes of the Romantic Movement. The “verbunk” (recruitment dance) developed from archaic men’s dances, whilst the “czardas” developed from the closed, whirling, stooping and cajoling couple dances, which appeared during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in the Carpathian Basin. Thus, the verbunk and czardas are combinations of past forms. The reinterpretation of such forms meant the synthesis of Hungarian dance figures and styles into a form that expressed the Romantic Age and the development of national identity in Hungary. At first the development of the czardas signalled the awakening of national identity in the more narrow upper echelons of society, but later, after the defeat of the 1848 Hungarian War of Independence, it signalled the self-awakening of a much broader social strata: even the word czardas (from csárda, “inn”) has its roots in the language of the common people. The dance’s influence lives on today in both Hungary and the neighbouring countries. The second part of the show gives us a taste of this variety, showing us the different folklorized versions of the former national dance. As the most common musical performers of the age were the gypsy bands that have survived through to today, the orchestra of the Hungarian State Folk Dance Ensemble plays a dual role: in addition to performing the music accompanying the dances, it gives voice to independent concert pieces from the period as well.

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