Müpa Budapest
1095 Budapest, Komor Marcell utca 1.
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Pure Source
An evening of arts based on Bartók’s Hungarian and Arabic collections

Pure Source
An evening of arts based on Bartók’s Hungarian and Arabic collections

Müpa Budapest — Béla Bartók National Concert Hall

8 April, 2022 | 7.30 pm

Ticket prices

2500 HUF | 3200 HUF | 3900 HUF | 4900 HUF | 6900 HUF

Müpa Budapest
1095 Budapest, Komor Marcell utca 1.

Programme booklet
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Featuring: Mesi Guessous – voice, László Szlama – recorder, shawm, cithern, voice, Gerzson Dávid Boros – darbuka, bendir, tapan, voice, Tamás Smuk – darbuka, bendir, Balázs Cserta – tárogató, shawm, Ballet Company of Győr, dancers and orchestra of the Hungarian State Folk Ensemble, Kodály Philharmonic Debrecen
Conductors: Kornél Fekete-Kovács, Imre Kollár

Music: Kornél Fekete-Kovács, Péter Erdélyi
Music editors: László Gőz, István Szalonna Pál
Animation: László Zsolt Bordos
Choreographers: György Ágfalvi, Gábor Mihályi, László Velekei
Director: Csaba Káel

Béla Bartók is the most important figure in Hungarian music literature. His folk music collections were indispensable for the following generations’ efforts to preserve the values of Hungarian culture: the melodies he recorded continue to define traditional folk and classical music to this day, and keep inspiring the world of jazz and world music.
Bartók was keenly interested in the music of not only the Hungarian regions, but that of the peoples in the neighbouring countries and more distant regions (e.g. North Africa, Turkey) as well. His collection of Arabic music in North Africa will be given special prominence in this production, which is the gala performance of the Hungarian day at Expo Dubai, in March 2022. Featuring Mesi Guessous, the Ballet Company of Győr and the Hungarian State Folk Ensemble, Pure Source presents, through the connection of Arabic and Hungarian music, some characteristic pieces of Bartók’s oeuvre, highlighting in particular the links between music and dance.

Müpa Budapest — Béla Bartók National Concert Hall

8 April, 2022 | 7.30 pm

Ticket prices

2500 HUF | 3200 HUF | 3900 HUF | 4900 HUF | 6900 HUF

Müpa Budapest
1095 Budapest, Komor Marcell utca 1.

Programme booklet

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