Lucian Ban & Mat Maneri - Transylvanian Dance (2024) [Official Digital Download 24/48]

On their second ECM duo album Romanian pianist Lucian Ban and US violist Mat Maneri find fresh inspiration as they follow the trail of Béla Bartók, revisiting the folk music that spurred the imagination of the great Hungarian composer who, in the early 20th century, collected and transcribed numerous pieces from Transylvania. For the duo these songs have become “springboards and sources of melodic material” for arrangements “that capture the spirit of the original yet allow us to improvise and bring our own world to them. If you go deeper into the source material, new vistas open up. These folk songs teach us many things.” Recorded live in October 2022 in the context of the Retracing Bartók project in Timișoara, these performances also bear testimony to the finely attuned understanding that Lucian Ban and Mat Maneri have achieved in their long-running musical partnership.

Tracklist:
1: Lucian Ban - Poor Is My Heart
2: Lucian Ban - Romanian Folk Dance
3: Lucian Ban - Lover Mine of Long Ago
4: Lucian Ban - Transylvanian Dance
5: Lucian Ban - The Enchanted Stag
6: Lucian Ban - Harvest Moon Ballad
7: Lucian Ban - The Boyar’s Doina
8: Lucian Ban - Make Me, Lord, Slim and Tall


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