To the memory of Ferenc “Csipás” Varga Music: László Kelemen Costumes: Ildikó Tóth Sets: Ágnes Ménes Lighting: Péter Gerzson Kovács Ethnographic advisor: Jolán Borbély Fiddler bandleader: István Pál Dance group leader: Richárd Kökény Assistants: Gabriella Bakos, Szilvia Nemes, Péter Varga Director-choreographer: Zoltán Farkas Artistic director: Gábor Mihályi Bartók Trilogy/1: Treasures of Upper Hungary Music: Gergely Agócs Sets, stage design: Péter Gerzson Kovács Graphics: Bori Vil...ma Kovács Video: Ernst Süss Costumes: Rita Furik Featuring: dance group and band of the Hungarian Folk State Ensemble Fiddler bandleader: István Pál Dance group leader: Richárd Kökény Assistants: Gabriella Bakos, Szilvia Nemes, Péter Varga Choreographers, dance teachers: Rita Furik, Richárd Kökény, Gábor Mihályi, Mihály Richtarcsik, Dusán Hégli, Anikó Lépes, Stanislav Marišler, Lindá Luptáková, Vladimír Michalko, Marianna Svoreňová Principal choreographers: Dusán Hégli, Gábor Mihályi Director’s assistant: Gábor Mihályi Director: Péter Gerzson Kovács Artistic director: Gábor Mihályi The performance is the joint work of Hungarian and Slovak creative artists. Timeless Kalotaszeg presents the typical Romanian, Hungarian and Gypsy folk music and dances of this era viewed through the music of a Bánffyhunyad family of Gypsy musicians, the Vargas. The first member of the family to become famous was Ferenc “Csipás” Varga, otherwise known as “the left hander”. His sons also became musicians and with this enormous heritage in mind and soul, the art of Ferenc “Csipás” Varga reached new peaks. We do not know of any other instrumental folk music from Kalotaszeg so classically balanced, with such attention paid to violin tone, and performance style and proportions. It is an eternally valid artistic synthesis of unique virtuosic sonority and communal knowledge. With Treasures of Upper Hungary, the first part of the Bartók Trilogy, the Hungarian State Folk Ensemble is the first of the Hungarian professional groups to summarise the ethnically rich dance and music culture of what was once known as Upper Hungary. It takes its starting point from the areas around Gömör, Zoborvidék, Felső-Garam where Béla Bartók set off on his folk music collecting trips. The real intention is not to present the contents of an archive but rather to emulate Bartók’s concept of the Carpathian Basin. The more perfectly we understand folk music and folk dance, we must then construct our own living language.
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