Hungarian Dances of the 16th, 17th & 18th Centuries
from ORGAN, LUTE & KEYBOARD Tablatures for Harpsichord
Jànos Sebesyén plays a Neupert harpsichord
Recorded circa 1969 at the Angelicum Studio in Milan, Italy. Published 1970 by Candide Vox CE 31032
(not indicated at the documentation. source: )
Notes: Recorded by Thomas Gallia.
also released as: Vox/Warner-Pioneer H 4909V-11V (Japan) Keyboard Music from Eastern Europe
Thanks to Daniël, who let me browse the famous Daniël Beuman harpsichord collection.

Side 1 20’00 Min.
00:00 1. Balint Bakfark: Fantasia 4’00 Min.
03:55 2. Hayduczky dance- 1’23 Min.
05:14 3. A Hungarian dance-1’53 Min.
07:03 4. Passamezzo ongaro e saltarello 3’40 Min.
10:34 5. Passamezzo angara and saltarello (another version) 4’25 Min.
14:52 6. Ungaresca e saltarello-0’55 Min.
16:17 7. Heiducken dance 1’54 Min.
17:14 8. Ungarischer Aufzug-0’45 Min.
17:55 9. Danza-1’05 Min.

Side 2 22’30 Min.
19:05 1. Old Hungarian dances from Locse and Sopron books-8’20 Min. (Sorry had to cut a small phrase because condition of vinyl)
27:05 2. Ballo ongaro-1’50 Min.
28:52 3. Padoana ditta ongara-2’45 Min.
31:37 4. Saltus Hungaricus-2’35 Min.
34:12 5. Bengraf: Dance piece-1’05 Min.
35:17 6. Babnik: Two dances-1’30 Min.
36:50 7. Haydn: Rondo all’ungherese-3’20 Min.

Notes by EGON F. KENTON
The history of any European country is a complicated
affair. Whether the historian tries to tackle it from the
point of view of nations, of geography, or from that of
dynasties, he has -to interrupt the flow of the narrative
continuously, because each of these points of view keep
changing; moreover, the history of one country may
become part of the history of another one. The hi~tory
of Poland suddenly becomes the history Of Transylvania,
the history of the Habsburg dynasty absorbs parts of
the history of Germany; Austria, the Low Countries and
Spain, the Danube basin’s history must be treated in the
histories of Hungary, Austria and Turkey-not to speak
of Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Rumania, Bulgaria and
Russia.
With all these changes, the culture changes also, of ,
course. The appearance of a single person, such as that
of Caterina Medici in France, or Beatrice of Aragon in
the Hungarian cavital, caused a widespread italianization
of culture; the Saxon colonizers, invited by Hungarian
kings to fill the gap in the regions depopulated by
the Tartar and Turkish :wars, germanized these regions’
culture, and the 150-year Turkish occupation of most of
Hungary east of the Danube, including the capital and
some areas west of the river, left its mark on the poetry,
music, architecture, and dress of the Hungarians, among
other manifestations of life and thought.
To these causes that influence culture must be added
two more: the natural intercourse in the border regions
of neighboring peoples of different culture, and the adventurous
character of artistically talented men, who
would leave their native land and settle temporarily or
permanently abroad. Their production would be generally
influenced by their }lew surroundings (see Dunstable,
Dufay, Schutz, Lully, Handel, Mozart, Meyerbeer)
or they would exert a powerful influence in the country
of their choice (see the Netherlanders in Italy, or the
Italians in Germany, England, France).

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