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Hazakísérlek --- 2011

"The CD is based on materials collected by Bartók, Kodály, and Antal Molnár in Gyergyó between 1907 and 1911. The Gyergyó Basin is in East Transylvania (today Harghita county, Romania), with Gyergyószentmiklós as its centre. The discovery of the pentatonic tunes of the Székely people preserving an archaic Hungarian culture was a milestone in Hungarian music history . These Székely tunes - like the miraculous stag in the ancient Hungarian myth - showed a new road, a new haven for composers so far strongly influenced by foreign music, leading them to find a new unique voice which was genuinely their own. I warmly recommend these vocal and instrumental tunes to those who are interested in the sources of world-famous Hungarian compositions and in the old music of Gyergyó only traces of which survive today." Berecz András