Spare Air this weekend

Music of the Romani – the gypsies – and of the cultures with which they interacted in central Europe and the Balkans. In this program, a sampler of traditional songs and dances, popularized takes on those folk styles, and adaptations
in orchestral and chamber music by composers from the 18th to 20th centuries –
Georg Phillipp Telemann, Joseph Haydn, Pablo de Sarasate, Béla Bartók, Zoltan Kodály and György Ligeti.

June 18
7-9 p.m. EDT
2300-0100 GMT/UTC
WDCE-FM, University of Richmond
90.1 FM
http://www.wdce.org

Kodály: “Dances of Galanta”
London Symphony Orchestra/
István Kertész
(Decca Eloquence)

trad. (Collection Uhrovska):
Dance 322
“Dopschensis”
trad. (Collection Saltus Hungarici):
Adagio
trad. (Collection Uhrovska):
“Ach ma myla co Myslis”
trad. (Collection Annae Szirmay-Keczer):
Dance 325,
“Melodiarium B-14”
trad. (Collection Uhrovska):
“Hungaricus 35”
Miloš Valent, violin & director
Jan Rokyta, cimbalom, hammered dulcimer & winds
Holland Baroque Society
(Channel Classics)

trad.:
“Oh, the Road Is Long”
“If I Were a Rose”
Marta Sebestyén, vocals
Muszikás
(Hannibal)

Haydn: “Rondo à l’Ongarese”
Franz Paul Rigler:
“Gipsy Dances”
Gypsy Devils
(Supraphon)

Sarasate: “Ziguenerweisen”
Julia Fischer, violin
Milana Chernyavska, piano
(Decca)

Bartók: “Contrasts”
Joseph Szigeti, violin
Benny Goodman, clarinet
Béla Bartók, piano
(Naxos)

trad.: “Hajdut Songs”
Péter Dabasi:
“The Poacher”
Romance
Coda
trad.: “Together Again”
Kolinda
(Pan)

Telemann:
“Perpetuum mobile”
“Concerto Polonois”
3 polonaises
trad. (Collection Annae Szirmay-Keczer):
Dance 90
“Pode Dworem”
“Melodiarium G-10”
“Melodiarium G-11”
Miloš Valent, violin & director
Jan Rokyta, cimbalom, hammered dulcimer & winds
Holland Baroque Society
(Channel Classics)

György Ligeti:
“Concert Românesc”
Berlin Philharmonic/
Jonathan Nott
(Teldec)