His immediate infatuation with the music led him to a lifelong pursuit to record and catalog these beautiful regional pieces. In the early 1900s Bartók was introduced to the folk music of the Romanian people in Transylvania. Their mutual interest in the work of Hungarian composer and ethnomusicologist Béla Bartók led to their new recording, Transylvanian Folk Songs, an assortment of arrangements of folk songs collected by Bartók in Ban’s native Romania. Pianist Lucian Ban, violist Mat Maneri and woodwind master John Surman come from different backgrounds but are connected by their focus on improvised music along with their appreciation of folkloric and classical styles. *Make sure to look at the amazing never before printed original photos by Béla Bártok and the fantastic liner notes by the great engineer, Steve Lake*Īrtists’ greatest inspiration often comes from sources that once surrounded them in their native communities.
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