Hungarian Folk on BBC 4

Subject: RE: Hungarian Folk on BBC 4
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 25 Aug 18 - 07:43 AM

We are in Slovakia until Monday - woken up by damned catholic church bells at 6am!!

Subject: RE: Hungarian Folk on BBC 4
From: G-Force
Date: 25 Aug 18 - 04:58 AM

Ah, Brahms and Liszt. I've just been reading the thread about not drinking.

Subject: RE: Hungarian Folk on BBC 4
From: punkfolkrocker
Date: 25 Aug 18 - 03:15 AM

I also liked it more than modern jazz... and I've not even watched or listened to any of it yet...

Subject: RE: Hungarian Folk on BBC 4
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 25 Aug 18 - 12:48 AM

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00007lz Lucie Skeaping tweeted about the program this evening.

Subject: RE: Hungarian Folk on BBC 4
From: Stanron
Date: 24 Aug 18 - 09:06 PM

I enjoyed it, perhaps more than the UK Folk Prom. As for Gypsy Professional cafe music, it all had it's origin in the country's traditional music. As did most of the UK Folk Prom. And if the performers were all professional, well so were the performers in the UK Folk Prom, weren't they? Not all the music played was cafe music and I'm not knowledgeable enough to say whether what was played was Hungarian Folk or not. Actually I'm not sure that I am qualified to say if the content of the UK Folk Prom was UK folk or not.

If you liked it, you liked it and if you didn't you didn't. I did, a lot more than rap, punk or modern jazz.

Subject: RE: Hungarian Folk on BBC 4
From: Jack Campin
Date: 24 Aug 18 - 07:53 PM

At a guess, Gypsy professional cafe music. Nothing to do with Hungarian folk of any kind.

Subject: RE: Hungarian Folk on BBC 4
From: DaveRo
Date: 24 Aug 18 - 12:29 PM

This was broadcast on Radio 3 yesterday (Thurs 23rd August) so you can listen to it now:
Prom 55: Ivan Fischer and the Budapest Festival Orchestra perform works by Brahms and Liszt

Subject: RE: Hungarian Folk on BBC 4
From: punkfolkrocker
Date: 24 Aug 18 - 11:25 AM

now back to the music...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0bgg31h


I'd not raise my hopes in advance, but still worth checking out
for anyone with an affinity for central and Eastern European music...

Followed later by, Pump Up the Bhangra
at 22.00

an interesting night's telly...

Subject: RE: Hungarian Folk on BBC 4
From: punkfolkrocker
Date: 24 Aug 18 - 10:49 AM

That fat pregnant bird looks like a bloke... oh it is a bloke...

there - score on the sexist-comment-o-meter please...???

..and I deserve bonus points for not watching a show that's not even been broadcast yet..
Beat that if you can fellow old white male mudcat 'sexists'...

btw.. I'm a huge fan of the cimbalom...

[snigger... that fat old balding man pfr nearly said "huge fanny ".. chortle...etc etc etc...
that'll trigger hostile extremist feminist radar twitching to near meltdown...]


Pfr - exemplary new male / male feminist...
as approved by middle class academic Leeds, Bristol and London Feminists since 1978...
At your service...

Subject: RE: Hungarian Folk on BBC 4
From: GUEST,Roderick A Warner
Date: 24 Aug 18 - 09:25 AM

indeed!

Subject: RE: Hungarian Folk on BBC 4
From: GUEST,Femme Fatale
Date: 24 Aug 18 - 09:13 AM

Well it looks as if there won't be any sexist comments about the weight or possible pregnancy of the female performers then.

Subject: RE: Hungarian Folk on BBC 4
From: GUEST,Roderick A Warner
Date: 24 Aug 18 - 09:04 AM

I think it's this trio: József Lendvay Sr and József Lendvay Jr (violins),
Jeno Lisztes (cimbalom).

Subject: RE: Hungarian Folk on BBC 4
From: Stanron
Date: 24 Aug 18 - 08:41 AM

My TV listings provider does not give names. I'll have to suck it and see.

Subject: RE: Hungarian Folk on BBC 4
From: GUEST,Jim Martin
Date: 24 Aug 18 - 08:33 AM

Who are the "thrilling trio"?

Subject: Hungarian Folk on BBC 4
From: Stanron
Date: 24 Aug 18 - 07:24 AM

7:30-9:15 tonight on BBC 4. Proms concert featuring Hungarian folk music. The blurb says;

Hungary's folk rhythms beat through the heart of this concert as the inimitable forces of the Budapest Festival Orchestra and founder-conductor Ivan Fischer return to the Proms with an ode to their homeland. Joining them on stage is a thrilling trio of the country's best folk musicians and together they showcase why these tunes have been such a rich source of inspiration to composers across history. Here, London's Royal Albert Hall resounds with a selection of Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsodies and Brahms' Hungarian Dances as never heard before, and concludes with Brahms' dramatic First Symphony. Presented by Lloyd Coleman.

How will this compare with the UK Folk Prom?