Moldvai Csángómagyar 'Siposok' -
Csango Hungarian Bagpipers in Moldavia
Various Artists
(ERCD053)
Musicians:
Mihály Dima - bagpipe
József Gusás - bagpipe
Gergely Mesterke - bagpipe István Legedi László -
kaval
János Ignác - flute
András Hodorog - flute
Nicolai Mircea - bag-pipe
Antal Palack - flute
Petru Ghiurca - bagpipe
Márton Zsitár - koboz, voice
Antal Gábor - violin
From the beginning of the 1970's György Stuber has been researching the customs
of the Moldavian-Hungarian bagpipers. This CD release is a collection of
his field recordings made between 1973 and 2001.
28 page booklet with notes in Hungarian and English.
Extract from notes:
'I had the privilege to bring the first news about the existence of Hungarian bagpipers in Moldavia in 1973. Anthropologists and ethnographers were not aware of the existence of the Hungarian bagpipers in Moldavia. By now our foundation, called Petrás Incze János Csángó foundation, tries to preserve the ancient bagpiper tradition of the Csángó Hungarians.
The Ethnic group of the Csángó is a relic from the Middle Ages, that has survived in the
'people´s' melting pot of Moldavia. The Csángó are a unique 'fossil', in some respects centuries behind our ages, with their preserved ethnicity, linguistic peculiarities, ancient traditions, and a great diversity of folk art and culture. This is exemplified e.g. by the existence of a seemingly ancient version of the Hungarian
bagpipe, despite the fact that the bagpipe has been extinct among the Hungarians in the neighbouring Transylvania....'