Pázsint Presented by Liszt Academy

Cimbalom player Dániel Szabó’s programme allows us once again to marvel at how an artist happy playing world music and who has written many of his own works is familiar with the authentic performance of traditional folk music, and how well these two personalities – the artist and the researcher – complement one another and lift the fizzing raw materials from on-site collecting trips to stage performance level. The programme is actually the fruit of several years of research work funded by the Hungarian Academy of Arts’ Arts Scholarship, entitled Cimbalom Performance in Szekler Land. The concert features top instrumentalists and vocalists from Szekler Land and Upper Maros in various instrumentalizations. Vocals, the violin and cimbalom all stand in the focus of music but naturally there is also room for accompanying instruments characteristic of the region. The programme includes large formations as well as smaller chamber line-ups (instrument pairings and trios). One other fascinating element of the programme is the instrumental collection of resident of Chibed (Kibéd) János Seprődi dating from the beginning of the century. Unfortunately, his audio recordings were lost; the music reconstruction based on scores of the melodies can be heard for the first time.