Hungary
Echoes from Budapest to Győr
A 31-minute instrumental journey across Hungary in one continuous arc, from the Danube-dusk Romani art-music of Budapest to the Austrian-baroque chamber elegance of Győr. No vocals; pure instrumental storytelling.
Each track is composed from the music of its place: the cimbalom, primáš violin and táncház tradition of Budapest's twilight Danube; the Turkish-Slavic borderland tambura of southern Pécs; the bagpipe drone, citera and pentatonic old-layer fiddle of the puszta capital, Debrecen; Kodály's archaic ethnographic ground-zero in Kecskemét; the painted-house ugrós dances of Sárköz in Kalocsa; and the Tisza-river festival brass of paprika-warm Szeged.
Tracklist
- 01 Budapest cimbalom and primáš violin, the táncház heart on a twilight Danube 0:00 · 4:30 ▶
- 02 Pecs Turkish-Slavic borderland tambura, a Mediterranean-tinged south 4:22 · 3:45 ▶
- 03 Debrecen bagpipe drone and citera over the vast, stoic Great Plain 7:59 · 3:42 ▶
- 04 Kecskemet Kodály's home city, archaic pentatonic fiddle and quiet breath 11:33 · 5:55 ▶
- 05 Kalocsa painted-house Sárköz folk art, the village celebration at full bloom 17:20 · 2:52 ▶
- 06 Szeged Tisza-river festival brass, paprika-warm and open-air bright 20:05 · 3:43 ▶
- 07 Eger hurdy-gurdy and wooden flute in the baroque fortress wine country 23:39 · 3:56 ▶
- 08 Gyor pipe organ and string quartet, an elegant westward farewell 27:28 · 3:30 ▶
Photography credits
- Photo by Biro Zoltan on Unsplash
- Photo by Christo on Wikimedia Commons
- Photo by Csermoi Laszlo on Pexels
- Photo by Efrem Efre on Pexels
- Photo by Globetrotter19 on Wikimedia Commons
- Photo by Petr Kraumann on Wikimedia Commons
- Photo by Umair Ali Asad on Pexels