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Kati Szvorák
and the Monarchia Orchestra

'Télkergető - Winter Chasing, Carnival in Central Europe'

Musicians:
Kati Szvorak - voice
and
The Monarchia Orchestra:

MULATSCHAG GRUPPE (Bécs, Vienna, Austria)
Evelyn FINK - violin, voice
Ernst FRITZ "Blizzfrizz" - violin, accordion
Andrea HOFFMANN - harp, voice
Rudolf PIETSCH - violin, voice
Margit WERNER-ANDERL - voice

PONITRAN (Nitra, Slovakia)
Bernard GARAJ - Slovak bagpipe, cimbalom, voice
Peter HUJER - violin, ozembuch, voice
Marián JÁREK - violin, voice
Ján VÁCLAVEK - viola, voice
Pavol VAKOŠ - double bass, voice

Béla ÁGOSTON - clarinet, bagpipe
Joszif Jurijevič ČERNAVEC (Técső, Ukraine) - Jew's harp
Tamás GOMBAI - violin
Mihály HUSZÁR - double bass, accordion, voice
Ferenc KISS - voice, kobsa, zither, Jew's harp, tambur, percussions, violin, hurdy-gurdy, water can
Zsolt KÜRTÖSI - double bass
Péter PÉTERDI - keyboards
Zoltán SZABÓ - Croatian bagpipe, tambur, ocarina
Sándor D. TÓTH - viola

Dancers of VASAS Ensemble - dance

Pupils of the folk-song class of Szentendre Vujicsics Tihamér Music School:
Flóra KISS, Berci SASVÁRI, Borcsa SASVÁRI, Marci SASVÁRI, Csenge SZEBENY, Rebeka TAMÁSI, Sára TÍMÁR, Réka ZETELAKI - voices

Tamás Repiszky - Recording producer

Arrangements:
Ferenc Kiss, Kati Szvorak, Marián Járek, Zoltán Szabó, Rudi Pietsch

Label - Hungaroton, Hungary
Released 2003

I once had the privilege of being invited to a concert Kati was giving in her home outside Szentendre. Tamas, her husband, showed us around their home which was full of stunningly beautiful folk art objects; paintings, carvings and the like. These had no doubt been gifts and purchases from the village folk where they had collected and researched the folk music that you will hear on this release and Kati's other work as well. Listening to this music now reminds me of that night, each of the songs being a beautiful work of art from those villages.
Ian Morrison

From CD notes:
'Winter Chasing draws from the music of the peoples of our country in the widest sense of the word. I could almost say, it embraces nearly all the peoples with a common fate during its thousand-year-old disastrous, bloody history who have influenced each other musically. Katalin Szvorak, who gives expression to this common tone, is a highly competent, artistic interpreter of the music of the Hungarians and all the peoples living with them.

May you regard the music you hear as a bunch of flowers made of the music of thousand years and love it both as a whole and each of its precious flowers separately.

And accept it with proper love from from Katalin Szvorak who has gathered the bunch and presents it to you now.'
Arpad Goncz

Sung in Hungarian, Slovak, German, Moravian, Armenian, Czech, Gypsy and Croatian.

USD 16.99

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Kati Szvorak
and the Monarchia Orchestra

'Télkergető -
Winter Chasing,
Carnival in Central Europe'