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Kodály Zoltán concluded his seminal 1939 study "Hungarianness in Music" with these words: "One of our hands is still held by the Nogai-Tatar, the Votyak, the Cheremis; the other by Bach and Palestrina. Can we join these distant worlds together? Can we be not a ferry boat tossed back and forth between European and Asian culture, but a bridge, and perhaps a mainland connected to both? This task would suffice for another thousand years."
In recent years, Fonó Zenekar has undertaken various artistic "approaches" that are unusual among figures in the Hungarian folk music movement. Although the ensemble's sound world is shaped by the traditional performance of folk music, our company has also sought to explore and present existing connections between various (not only musical) genres in these initiatives.
"I believe the time has come to involve representatives of the other, Turkic branch of the cultural kinship that Kodály recognized and that was reinforced by his followers' work and scientifically proven. Most recently, the Kodály Zoltán Memorial Year provided an excellent opportunity for this, during which we created the project 'Paternal Line'. In the Grand Hall of the Pest Vigadó, Fonó Zenekar, together with our Balkar, Nogai, Bashkir and Kumyk guests (tradition-preserving singers and instrumental consultants from my eastern field research) presented in a stage performance the parallels between Hungarian folk music and the musical folklore of these Kipchak Turkic peoples. The full-house audience received the performance with great ovations, and professional critics also evaluated the initiative extremely positively. These results, as well as the importance of presenting our discovered musical kinship, justify staging this production in Marosvásárhely as well." Gergely Agócs
A documentary film made about the production can be viewed here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eg-hCdjoO2s
Fonó Zenekar:
1. Andrea Navratil – vocals
2. Gergely Agócs – vocals, tárogató, Hungarian bagpipe, flutes, koboz
3. Tamás Gombai – violin
4. István "Szalonna" Pál – violin
5. Sándor D. Tóth – viola, gardon
6. Bálint Tárkány-Kovács – cimbalom
7. Zsolt Kürtösi – double bass, cello, accordion
Guest artists of the production:
8. Mahmúd Bolatov – vocals, agacskomuz
9. Kuszum Halilova – vocals
(Helli Aul, Korkmaszkala, Karabudahkent district, Dagestan, Russian Federation)
10. Arszlanbek Szultanbekov – vocals, dombra
11. Iszlam Szatirov – vocals, dombra
(Alakay Aul, Adige Khabl district, Karachay-Cherkess Republic, Russian Federation)
12. Taulula Ensemble – vocals, male chorus (7 members)
(Kashatau, Cherek district, Kabardino-Balkaria, Russian Federation)
13. Azat Atangulov – vocals, kuraj
14. Khenife Abubakirova – vocals, doromb
(Boranbaj, Baymak district, Bashkiria, Russian Federation)
In recent years, Fonó Zenekar has undertaken various artistic "approaches" that are unusual among figures in the Hungarian folk music movement. Although the ensemble's sound world is shaped by the traditional performance of folk music, our company has also sought to explore and present existing connections between various (not only musical) genres in these initiatives.
"I believe the time has come to involve representatives of the other, Turkic branch of the cultural kinship that Kodály recognized and that was reinforced by his followers' work and scientifically proven. Most recently, the Kodály Zoltán Memorial Year provided an excellent opportunity for this, during which we created the project 'Paternal Line'. In the Grand Hall of the Pest Vigadó, Fonó Zenekar, together with our Balkar, Nogai, Bashkir and Kumyk guests (tradition-preserving singers and instrumental consultants from my eastern field research) presented in a stage performance the parallels between Hungarian folk music and the musical folklore of these Kipchak Turkic peoples. The full-house audience received the performance with great ovations, and professional critics also evaluated the initiative extremely positively. These results, as well as the importance of presenting our discovered musical kinship, justify staging this production in Marosvásárhely as well." Gergely Agócs
A documentary film made about the production can be viewed here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eg-hCdjoO2s
Fonó Zenekar:
1. Andrea Navratil – vocals
2. Gergely Agócs – vocals, tárogató, Hungarian bagpipe, flutes, koboz
3. Tamás Gombai – violin
4. István "Szalonna" Pál – violin
5. Sándor D. Tóth – viola, gardon
6. Bálint Tárkány-Kovács – cimbalom
7. Zsolt Kürtösi – double bass, cello, accordion
Guest artists of the production:
8. Mahmúd Bolatov – vocals, agacskomuz
9. Kuszum Halilova – vocals
(Helli Aul, Korkmaszkala, Karabudahkent district, Dagestan, Russian Federation)
10. Arszlanbek Szultanbekov – vocals, dombra
11. Iszlam Szatirov – vocals, dombra
(Alakay Aul, Adige Khabl district, Karachay-Cherkess Republic, Russian Federation)
12. Taulula Ensemble – vocals, male chorus (7 members)
(Kashatau, Cherek district, Kabardino-Balkaria, Russian Federation)
13. Azat Atangulov – vocals, kuraj
14. Khenife Abubakirova – vocals, doromb
(Boranbaj, Baymak district, Bashkiria, Russian Federation)
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