world music, jazz, popular music

Pure Source

An evening of arts based on Bartók's Hungarian and Arabic collections

no interval
Béla Bartók National Concert Hall
  • Produced by Müpa Budapest
  • Liszt Fest

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Béla Bartók is the most important figure in Hungarian music literature. His folk music collections were indispensable for the following generations' efforts to preserve the values of Hungarian culture: the melodies he recorded continue to define traditional folk and classical music to this day, and keep inspiring the world of jazz and world music.
Bartók was keenly interested in the music of not only the Hungarian regions, but that of the peoples in the neighbouring countries and more distant regions (e.g. North Africa, Turkey) as well. His collection of Arabic music in North Africa will be given special prominence in this production, which is the gala performance of the Hungarian day at Expo Dubai, in March 2022. Featuring Mesi Guessous, the Ballet Company of Győr and the Hungarian State Folk Ensemble, Pure Source presents, through the connection of Arabic and Hungarian music, some characteristic pieces of Bartók's oeuvre, highlighting in particular the links between music and dance.

Presented by: Müpa Budapest
  • Kornél Fekete-Kovács, Imre Kollár
  • voice
    Mesi Guessous
  • recorder, shawm, cithern, voice
    László Szlama
  • darbuka, bendir, tapan, voice
    Gerzson Dávid Boros
  • darbuka, bendir,
    Tamás Smuk
  • tárogató, shawm
    Balázs Cserta
  • Ballet Company of Győr
  • dancers and orchestra of the Hungarian State Folk Ensemble
  • Kodály Philharmonic Debrecen
  • Music
    Kornél Fekete-Kovács, Péter Erdélyi
  • Musical editor
    László Gőz, István Szalonna Pál
  • Animation
    László Zsolt Bordos
  • Choreographers
    György Ágfalvi, Gábor Mihályi, László Velekei
  • Director
    Csaba Káel

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