KASZAS E FÖLDÖN A HALAL: HUNGARIAN FUNERAL MUSIC

"Death is the Reaper over the world"

"(...) Hungarian Funeral Music doesn't sound like a barrel of laughs, nor is it: 74 tracks of mostly a capella singing is not to be devoured at a single sitting. But the instrumental tracks are a delight - you can almost hear what Bartok did with such music when he found it on his travels in Transylvania - with violins to the fore. And there are surprises, most notably the parody-songs, and the laments-for-the-dead which accompanied young brides from their parental home to the church. In traditional Hungary, death was very much a part of life, and was celebrated as such. Some of these recordings were made on wax cylinders in 1916, and most no later than the 1960s. This music has now all but died out, and is all the more treasurable as a result." (http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/).

Répertoire difficile mais intéressant. Les interprètes des morceaux sont référencés dans le livret.