Transylvanian Folk Songs - Lucian Ban | John Surman | Mat Maneri

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The Dowry Song from "TRANSYLVANIAN FOLK SONGS - The Béla Bartók Field Recordings" album by Lucian Ban | John Surman | Mat Maneri. Sunnyside Records, May 15, 2020 "In 1904 Béla Bartók experienced an epiphany when he heard 18-year-old Lidi Dósa singing songs from her Transylvanian village. He was soon on the road and between 1908 and 1917 Bartók would go on to record & transcribe over 3,400 peasant folk songs, describing the completion of his research into Romanian folk music as “my life’s goal”. A century later, these three outstanding improvisers – Mat Maneri, Lucian Ban and John Surman – draw fresh inspiration from the music that fired Bartók’s imagination, looking again at the carols, lamentations, love songs, dowry songs and more which the composer collected, in the period between 1909-1917. . . . The Béla Bartók Field Recordings represent still to this day the biggest collection of Romanian folk songs from Transylvania" Photos by Béla Bartók, Transylvania 1917, courtesy of Budapest Bartók Archives © Sunnyside Records 2020. Liner notes by Steve Lake.
Posted June 20, 2021
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