Kapela Maliszów (PL), Anita Vrencsán, István Lukács, Mihály Dresch: Mountain Music

Over the centuries, the communities of the mountainous regions of Europe, cut off from the rest of the world, were affected much more slowly by the various influences, fashions and trends that reshaped the globe’s cultural visage from time to time. And this is why mountain music has preserved more archaic styles of playing, melodic material and musicality, the musical look of bygone eras. And since, from a musical point of view, time seems to have truly stood still in these regions, we can often observe similar techniques employed in the music of mountainous areas that are geographically distant.

On 6 October, the main stage of the House of Music Hungary will host – as part of our Landscapes and Music programme series – famous mountain musicians from Gyimes in Transylvania (violinist István ‘Luki’ Lukács, gardon-player Zsolt ‘Gizi’ Simon and singer Anita Vrencsán) and the Beskid region of Poland (the Kapela Maliszów trio). At this concert, they will collectively search for the points of connection between their own musical languages and the greatest Hungarian master of fusing folk music and jazz, the Kossuth Prize-winner Mihály Dresch.