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Agócs Gergely – Kilencz Ballada / Fonó Records Audio CD 2005 / FA2242
UPC 5998048522422
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Description:
A „Kilencz ballada” néven megjelenő album Agócs Gergely első önálló lemeze. Kilenc magyar népballadát hallhatunk rajta, a nyelvterület legkülönbözőbb szögleteiből válogatva.
Traditional folk ballads are one of the highest points of the folk genres – 150 years of Hungarian folklore collection and its scientific analysis attest to this. We are all touched by the compactness, drama, poetic quality and the depth of human life expressed. Ballads have become integrated into our everyday culture. But do we really know them? Do we really live together with them? Recordings of ballads are still rare despite the impressive number of folk music records released over the last decade. Even the most professional performers seem to be deterred by this sophisticated genre and the difficulties of its performance.
This silence has been broken by Gergely Agócs, one of the most significant representatives of the young generation of musicians who has grown up in the dance house movement. He shows us the unique musical culture and diverse song styles preserved in ballads. Nine different ballads are presented; nine stories about the tragedy of ancient people, the loneliness of being an orphan, unfulfilled love, treachery, death, pride, banishment, false friendship and self-sacrifice.
Gergely Agócs – voice
Featuring:
Tamás Gombai – violin
Gábor Szabó – violin
Sándor D. Tóth – three stringed viola
Kálmán Balogh – cimbalom
Zsolt Kürtösi – cello, double bass
Zoltán Juhász – flute, bagpipe
Pál Dzsupin – long flute, flóta
Tracklist:
1. Három árva / The Three Orphans
2. Betyárgyerek az erdőbe' / A Young Outlaw in the Forest
3. Hunyadi bojtárja / Hunyadi’s Shepherd
4. Bíboros Péterné / Wife of Péter Bíboros
5. Megöltek egy legényt / They Killed a Lad
6. Szendre báró leánya / The Daughter of Baron Szendre
7. Bálint Vitéz / Warrior Bálint
8. Fehér Anna / Anna Fehér
9. Barna Pesta / Pesta Barna
More Details:
- Cello, Bass – Zsolt Kürtösi
- Cimbalom – Balogh Kálmán
- Design – Barcsik Géza
- Flute [Hosszifurugla] – Dsupin Pál
- Flute, Horn – Zoltán Juhász
- Leader – Jiling Jácint
- Mastered By – Tibor Rostás
- Viola – Tóth Sándor
- Violin – Gombai Tamás, Szabó Gábor (2)
- Voice – Agócs Gergely
About the Artist:
Gergely Agócs has been collecting traditional folk music since 1985 and now has a collection of some hundred hours of recordings made mainly amongst Hungarians living in Slovakia, but his collection also includes Transylvanian, Moldavian, Hungarian, Ruthenian, Gypsy, Croatian, Romanian, German and Slovak folk music.
He was one of the founding members of the Slovakian Hungarian Folkore Association, where he directed the work of its folk music section from 1990 until the fall of ’96. In 1997, he graduated from the Department of Folklore/Ethnography at Eötvös Lorand University in Budapest. In 2000 he began working on his PhD in Hungarian and Comparative Folklore in the Department of Humanities at the same university in Budapest. After finishing at the university, he accepted a position as folk music researcher at the Institute of Musicology at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
Since 1990, Gergely Agócs has also been performing at folk music events and on recordings in Hungary. In 1993 he earned the title of Young Master of Folk Arts as a vocal and instrumental soloist. Since 1997 he has been a member of the Fonó Band in Budapest. He also teaches folk singing and music at summer camps, he is also involved in organizing folk dance and music events, lecture series.
From March 1999 until February 2000, he directed the Slovak collections of the ’Final Hour’ traditional music collection and documentation project supported by Fonó Music Hall in Budapest, the Hungarian National Heritage Ministry and the Hungarian Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Musicology. Since October 2001, he has been working at the Hungarian Heritage House as director of the Public Folklore Archives.
