TZIGANI ORCHESTRA
Conducted by IMRE MAGYARI
TZIGANI ORCHESTRA
Conducted by ARPAD TOLL
Songs by ISABELLE NAGY and IMRE PALLO of the Royal Hungarian Opera
Relayed from Budapest
A good deal of what we know as Hungarian music is really Hungarian simply because the people who make the music happen to live in Hungary. It is really a combination of the characteristics of the Magyars, who are descended from Tartar-Mongolian stock, and the gypsies, whose origins are also Oriental. The rhythmic nature of the music is the Magyar contribution, while the peculiar embellishments and grace notes imposed upon the melodies are contributed by the gypsies. The whole idiom is without doubt, Eastern, but for at least' 100 years this gypsy music, as we may now call it, has had a tremendous influence on the compo
, sitions of Europeans, for whom it has bad an extraordinary attraction. Liszt was one of the first composers to make full use of the idiom, as he was well equipped to do, for in his youth he had much communication with gypsy folk and made a study of their music. The compositions of Liszt, and others like them, are, however, more in the nature of paraphrases than original creations; but there does exist a wealth of original music and the tradition is preserved in the National Conservatorium at Budapest.
(These two broadcasts from the Continent are in co-operation with the Hungarian Broadcasting
Company)