Tiszta forrás (Pure Springs): Hungarian Folk Tunes and Their Arrangements in Works by Bartók and Kodály [Import]

Hungarian Traditional (Composer), Bela Bartok (Composer), Zoltan Kodaly (Composer), Janos Kovacs (Conductor), Janos Ferencsik (Conductor), Hungarian State Opera Orchestra (Orchestra), Adam Fellegi (Performer), Kornél Zempléni (Performer), Zoltán Kocsis (Performer), Peter Frankl (Performer), Béla Bartók (Performer), Lajos Kértesz (Performer), Gábor Gabos (Performer), Pál Arató (Performer), György Miklós (Performer), Eszter Kovacs (Performer), Maria Basilides (Performer), Julia Hamari (Performer), Vilma Medgyaszay (Performer), Erzsébet Komlóssy (Performer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Performer: Adam Fellegi, Kornél Zempléni, Zoltán Kocsis, Peter Frankl, Béla Bartók, et al.
• Orchestra: Hungarian State Opera Orchestra
• Conductor: Janos Kovacs, Janos Ferencsik
• Composer: Hungarian Traditional, Bela Bartok, Zoltan Kodaly
• Audio CD (October 29, 2002)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Hungaroton
• ASIN: B00007138S
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #528,770 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #33 in Music > Classical > Opera & Vocal > Languages > Hungarian

Track Listings

1. Ablakomba, ablakomba besütött a holdvilág (Folk hongrois)

2. They Are Mending the Great Forest Highway, for voice & piano (8 Hungarian Folksongs No. 6), Sz. 64/6, BB 47/6

3. Mikor guláslegény voltam (When I was a herdsman) (Felsoireg)

4. Bagatelle: 'Mikor gulyásbojtár voltam' (Grave), for piano (14 Bagatelles No. 4), Sz. 38/4, BB 50/4 (Op. 6/4}

5. Házasodik a tücsök (The cricket is getting married), folk song

6. Swine-herd's Dance: 'The Cricket Marries', for piano (For Children Vol. 2/42), Sz. 42/2/42, BB 53/42

7. Ha bemegyek, ha bemegyek a dobozi csárdába (If I go into the inn of Doboz)

8. When I Go into the Inn at Doboz, for piano (For Children Vol. 1/19), Sz. 42/1/19, BB 53/19

9. Kis kece lányom (My little goddaughter)

10. Round Dance I: 'My Little Graceful Girl', for piano (For Children Vol. 1/17), Sz. 42/1/17, BB 53/17

11. Béres legény jól megrakd a szekered (Farm labourer lad, load the cart well)

12. Farmboy, Load the Cart Well, for male chorus (Old Hungarian Folksongs No. 4), Sz. 50/4, BB 60/4

13. Snow-white Kerchief

14. Black is the Earth, for voice & piano (8 Hungarian Folksongs No. 1), Sz. 64/1, BB 47/1

15. Angoli Borbála (Barbara Angoli's Vészto)

16. Ballade: Tema con variazioni ('Angoli Borbála'), for piano (Hungarian Peasant Songs No. 6), Sz. 71/6 , BB 79/5

17. Nem vagy leány (You are not a lassie)

18. Old Dance Tune: 'Nem vagy légeny', for piano (Hungarian Peasant Songs No. 11), Sz. 71/11, BB 79/11

19. Szolohegyen keresztül (The little girl goes through the vineyard)

20. Improvisations (8) on Hungarian Peasant Songs for piano, Sz. 74, BB 83 (Op. 20): No. 4

See all 54 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars NO TEXTS, May 23, 2010

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This review is from: Tiszta forrás (Pure Springs): Hungarian Folk Tunes and Their Arrangements in Works by Bartók and Kodály (Audio CD)

Let me make it clear that I have not heard this CD so I cannot comment on its quality. I limited the stars strictly based on the lack of texts.

I sent an email to Hungarton to find out if texts and/or translations were included. They replied that they were not.

Way too often the description of CD of works in languages other than English fails to indicate if texts and/or translations are included. It would be useful to know this upfront.

Some of the more recent EMI titles' texts are available at emiclassics and classicsonline provides texts for many of it downloads. But finding decent translations in languages like Hungarian is amazingly difficult, considering how ideal the Internet is for dispensing something like this. I find myself sometime not downloading music in a foreign language but instead paying several dollars more for the CD to insure I have translations. I suspect I'm not the only non-multi-linguist who would PAY reasonable amounts for the capability of actually knowing what is being said in non-English works.