European Folklore Institute

Supported CD-s:

In the wake of Bartók in Anatolia
János Sipos
EFI - Fonó Records. Ltd. 2001.

Béla Bartók collected folk music in Turkey in 1936. His book about the Anatolian collection did not make a stir, altough the work is a milestone ethnomusicology. When János Sipos taught at the Department of Hungarology at Ankara University, in 1988-1993, he had the opportunity to collect some 1500 tunes.
János Sipos began his collection in areas where Bartók had stopped his. Then, as fewer and fewer new tunes were found, he shifted his field of research gradually westward. A six-year stay on the spot, the mastery of the Turkish language, and regular collecting, transcribing and analyzing work enabled him to prepare a large body of systemized Turkish material for publication.

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From generation to generation
Hungarian folk music performed by the students of the Hungarian Folk Music School in Óbuda

The teaching of authentic folk music in Óbuda (the two-thousand year-old, and thus oldest, district of Budapest) has a 25 year history.
In 1975 a folk music branch was established at the Óbuda State Music School, initiated and then lead by János Béres. This branch taught folk singing and the playing of some instruments. Teaching at this branch was greatly supported by the outstanding results of Hungarian folk music research and the nation's growing interest in folk music. This interest was revived by the "Táncház" (lit. Dance-house) movement that was launched almost 30 years ago and has acquired European and world fame since. This movement gave a glimmer of hope to the wish that the wealth of folk music accumulated over several centuries would not disappear without trace, that it would have a place in an ever-changing society.
In 1991 the faculty became a special state music school for the teaching of authentic folk music (probably the only one in Europe). Today it teaches almost every Hungarian folk instrument, as well as folk singing. The "classical" method of musical education places the focus on playing from written music. In contrast, the pupils of our school learn mainly by listening to their teachers (who are professional artists having mastered folk music whilst collecting it), or original sound documents. The school has widespread contacts across Europe.
This album intends to draw a picture of the present-day skill of our pupils. Please listen to it with good heart!

Tamás Kobzos Kiss
Director of the Hungarian Folk Music School in Óbuda

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Nagykarácsony - Kiskarácsony
Karácsonyi, újévi énekek, névnapi köszöntõk.
(Új Pátria. Az Utolsó Óra program gyûjteményébõl)
EFI - Fonó Records. Ltd. 1999.

"The selections on this CD have been chosen from the huge amount of material collected during the Transylvanian Utolsó Óra (Final Hour) research project, naturally it would not have been possible to include all examples of Christmas season material which we have collected. I have done my best to choose samples which present a geographical overview. Hopefully listening to them will give an idea of the extraordinarily rich, but still uniform musical language which has flowered over the centuries in Transylvania and which we Hungarians and non-Hungarians in the Carpathian Basin bear the "pleasing responsibility" (Attila József) of preserving, keeping alive and perhaps passing on."

László Kelemen

Contents

1. Greeting (Grindeni)
2. In the little village of Bethlehem… (Búza)
3. Romanian carol and dance (Solovãstru)
4. His white flower (Iara de Jos)
5. Carol and dance from Inucu
6. The precious night… (ªamºud)
7. Gypsy and Hungarian carol (Ieud, Maramureº)
8. Saint Joseph set out… (Grindeni)
9. Carol (Petrilaca)
10. Saint Joseph set out… (Culpiu)
11. Romanian carol (Soporu de Cîmpier)
12. Romanian carol (Fizeºu Gherlii)
13. Romanian carol (Soporu de Cîmpier)
14. Wake up gipsies… (Tonciu)
15. Gypsy carol (Floreºti)
16. Jewish chaunukka - song (Búza)
17. Christmas morning (Iara de Jos)
18. The son of God… (Sic)
19. Jesus, our saving grace… (Ciumani)
20. Greeting (Culpiu)
21. Many a Saint Stephen's day… (Sic)
22. Greetings for Stephen (Almaºu)
23. The sky is clearing beautifully… (ªamºud)
24. Many St. John's days… (Fizeºu Gherlii)
25. Stephen's day greetings (ªilea Nirajului)
26. Dawn Song (Adãmuº)
27. On this day we have arrived… (Sic)
28. New Year, kerchief with a hole… (Toncin)
29. Name day greeting (Petrilaca)
30. This is a new time, a new year… (Sic)

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Berecz András:
Kõkertben liliom
(énekek, mesék)
Fonó Records Ltd. 2000.

"This CD was born in the year of the Hungarian Millenium. The songs and stories heard here are not historical, they haven't died for their country under a line of torches; they have instead been born in the light of sustaining virtues and hopes. They record a few moments of our survival, perseverance, ascent and its diverging paths - sometimes in clear pictures, other times mysteriously or unconsciously. One species of bird flys on an unusual course avoiding the islands that would make good resting places, seeking out stormier areas. The routes follow a mountain ridge sunken beneath the sea. A compact sealed with the blood of an old alliance under the Hungarian crown has been renewed and placed on the big road which lies before us. I fancy that the thoughts narrated and sung herein cover some of the saddles and peaks on the mysterious sunken mountain ridge below the long road. I also believe that they must have been soaring there in Hungarian history in the l000th year after the birth of Christ."

András Berecz

I. PATH OVERGOWN WITH GRASS
1 The sun has risen 1'43"
2 The sky opens 2'O1"
3 Get ready horse 1'25"
4 The crane bird wanders 1'33"
5 The prisoner's song 1'33"
6 Hungarian King István 1'30"
7 The tale about the Truth 13'45"
8 Lover of truth 2'25"
9 On the sandy banks 1'39"

II. LILY IN A ROCK GARDEN
10 Carol 1'56"
11 Kyrie 1'49"
12 Oh Saint Stephen 2'58"
13 The Flute Tale 15'O1"
l4 Blessing 3'13"

Total time 52'32"

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	In the wake of Bartók in Anatolia János Sipos EFI - Fonó Records. Ltd. 2001. Béla Bartók collected folk music in Turkey in 1936. His book about the Anatolian collection did not make a stir, altough the work is a milestone ethnomusicology. When János Sipos taught at the Department of Hungarology at Ankara University, in 1988-1993, he had the opportunity to collect some 1500 tunes. János Sipos began his collection in areas where Bartók had stopped his. Then, as fewer and fewer new tunes were found, he shifted his field of research gradually westward. A six-year stay on the spot, the mastery of the Turkish language, and regular collecting, transcribing and analyzing work enabled him to prepare a large body of systemized Turkish material for publication. download mp3 (1.25 Mb)
	From generation to generation Hungarian folk music performed by the students of the Hungarian Folk Music School in Óbuda The teaching of authentic folk music in Óbuda (the two-thousand year-old, and thus oldest, district of Budapest) has a 25 year history. In 1975 a folk music branch was established at the Óbuda State Music School, initiated and then lead by János Béres. This branch taught folk singing and the playing of some instruments. Teaching at this branch was greatly supported by the outstanding results of Hungarian folk music research and the nation's growing interest in folk music. This interest was revived by the "Táncház" (lit. Dance-house) movement that was launched almost 30 years ago and has acquired European and world fame since. This movement gave a glimmer of hope to the wish that the wealth of folk music accumulated over several centuries would not disappear without trace, that it would have a place in an ever-changing society. In 1991 the faculty became a special state music school for the teaching of authentic folk music (probably the only one in Europe). Today it teaches almost every Hungarian folk instrument, as well as folk singing. The "classical" method of musical education places the focus on playing from written music. In contrast, the pupils of our school learn mainly by listening to their teachers (who are professional artists having mastered folk music whilst collecting it), or original sound documents. The school has widespread contacts across Europe. This album intends to draw a picture of the present-day skill of our pupils. Please listen to it with good heart! Tamás Kobzos Kiss Director of the Hungarian Folk Music School in Óbuda download mp3 (2.25 Mb)
	Nagykarácsony - Kiskarácsony Karácsonyi, újévi énekek, névnapi köszöntõk. (Új Pátria. Az Utolsó Óra program gyûjteményébõl) EFI - Fonó Records. Ltd. 1999. "The selections on this CD have been chosen from the huge amount of material collected during the Transylvanian Utolsó Óra (Final Hour) research project, naturally it would not have been possible to include all examples of Christmas season material which we have collected. I have done my best to choose samples which present a geographical overview. Hopefully listening to them will give an idea of the extraordinarily rich, but still uniform musical language which has flowered over the centuries in Transylvania and which we Hungarians and non-Hungarians in the Carpathian Basin bear the "pleasing responsibility" (Attila József) of preserving, keeping alive and perhaps passing on." László Kelemen Contents 1. Greeting (Grindeni) 2. In the little village of Bethlehem… (Búza) 3. Romanian carol and dance (Solovãstru) 4. His white flower (Iara de Jos) 5. Carol and dance from Inucu 6. The precious night… (ªamºud) 7. Gypsy and Hungarian carol (Ieud, Maramureº) 8. Saint Joseph set out… (Grindeni) 9. Carol (Petrilaca) 10. Saint Joseph set out… (Culpiu) 11. Romanian carol (Soporu de Cîmpier) 12. Romanian carol (Fizeºu Gherlii) 13. Romanian carol (Soporu de Cîmpier) 14. Wake up gipsies… (Tonciu) 15. Gypsy carol (Floreºti) 16. Jewish chaunukka - song (Búza) 17. Christmas morning (Iara de Jos) 18. The son of God… (Sic) 19. Jesus, our saving grace… (Ciumani) 20. Greeting (Culpiu) 21. Many a Saint Stephen's day… (Sic) 22. Greetings for Stephen (Almaºu) 23. The sky is clearing beautifully… (ªamºud) 24. Many St. John's days… (Fizeºu Gherlii) 25. Stephen's day greetings (ªilea Nirajului) 26. Dawn Song (Adãmuº) 27. On this day we have arrived… (Sic) 28. New Year, kerchief with a hole… (Toncin) 29. Name day greeting (Petrilaca) 30. This is a new time, a new year… (Sic) download mp3 (4.78 Mb)
	Berecz András: Kõkertben liliom (énekek, mesék) Fonó Records Ltd. 2000. "This CD was born in the year of the Hungarian Millenium. The songs and stories heard here are not historical, they haven't died for their country under a line of torches; they have instead been born in the light of sustaining virtues and hopes. They record a few moments of our survival, perseverance, ascent and its diverging paths - sometimes in clear pictures, other times mysteriously or unconsciously. One species of bird flys on an unusual course avoiding the islands that would make good resting places, seeking out stormier areas. The routes follow a mountain ridge sunken beneath the sea. A compact sealed with the blood of an old alliance under the Hungarian crown has been renewed and placed on the big road which lies before us. I fancy that the thoughts narrated and sung herein cover some of the saddles and peaks on the mysterious sunken mountain ridge below the long road. I also believe that they must have been soaring there in Hungarian history in the l000th year after the birth of Christ." András Berecz I. PATH OVERGOWN WITH GRASS 1 The sun has risen 1'43" 2 The sky opens 2'O1" 3 Get ready horse 1'25" 4 The crane bird wanders 1'33" 5 The prisoner's song 1'33" 6 Hungarian King István 1'30" 7 The tale about the Truth 13'45" 8 Lover of truth 2'25" 9 On the sandy banks 1'39" II. LILY IN A ROCK GARDEN 10 Carol 1'56" 11 Kyrie 1'49" 12 Oh Saint Stephen 2'58" 13 The Flute Tale 15'O1" l4 Blessing 3'13" Total time 52'32" download mp3 (1.33 Mb)