Musicians:
Gábor Eredics - bass, tambura, accordeon, voice
Kálmán Eredics - double bass, voice
Miroszláv Brczán - tenor tambura, voice
Mihály Borbély - tambura, voice
Károly Győri ( 1955 - 11th August
2006)
- prima tambura, violin
Ferenc Szendrodi - first tambura, tambura samica
Zoltán Horváth - first tambura, alt tambura, tenor tambura
Guest:
Márta Sebestyen - voice
With the same members as when they started performing, the Vujicsics
Ensemble celebrates 25 years work with a special concert given at the
Academy of Music, Budapest Hungary. Many special guests appear on this live recording
including such favourites as Sebestyen Marta, Jushaz Zoltan, and others.
The Ensemble was formed in 1974 in Pomaz, in the
early days of the folk-dance revival in Hungary. The primary aim was to continue and
revive the folk-music heritage of the Serbian communities in the Budapest region
(Szentendre, Pomaz, Csobanka, Budakalasz). Later its scope was extended to the folk-music
of the Croats of the Danube valley and southern Hungary, including field-work,
arrangements, and performance, and the presentation as such of this diverse and colourful
folk-music. Ensemble Vujicsics arrangements are characterised by respect for the heritage,
and musicianship of a high order. Their repertoire, based on archaic traditions, now
enjoys a respected place on the concert platforms of Hungary, Europe, and more distant
continents.
Their successes are maybe also due to the fact that for more than 20
years the composition of the ensemble has remained the same. Since the beginning of the
80s they have made records and toured throughout Europe as members of the international
ensemble Vents d'Est (Eastern Winds).