…which sees a US-resident, Cameroonian bassist/vocalist engage with a Hungarian guitar virtuoso.
This is a beautiful, 2020-vintage improvisatory version of a traditional song which Béla Bartók collected more than a century ago…
(if you can see/hear this through a good sound system, you will be well-rewarded. This performance has been recorded properly)
The guitarist has many excellent albums.
Hallgató – his current one – is a particularly superb collaboration with a string quartet.
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Whilst not a few “classical” composers’ approach to “folk”/“traditional” music could be described, fairly, as “patronising”, “exploitative”, “dishonest”, or “all of the aforementioned”, Bartók had an uncommonly acute, uncommonly open appreciation of its intrinsic value.
A brilliant, highly distinctive composer, Bartók was also one of the world’s great “song catchers”.
Even had he been a mediocre composer, Bartók would/should still be remembered as a highly effective/crucial ethnomusicologist.
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