Béla Bartók Rumanian folk Dances(The Rajko orchestra)

[@tfoy60]

Superb Gypsy musicians wearing Hungarian costumes and Jewish skull-caps (yarmulka) playing great music (collected by Bartok in Romania) in the Great Synagogue, Budapest. How good is that? Kituno, Nagyszeru, Klass!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@TheSmart-CasualGamer]

I first saw this video when I was in Year Three, not too long after it had been uploaded to KZbin (Probably only a year or two!) and I keep coming back to it. It's just amazing to hear the constant changes of mood, from dramatic to eerie to hopeful as it goes on, and as it's a medley of sorts, you keep assuming something will be repeated, but it never is. Bela Bartók was a genius, and he doesn't get enough recognition that he deserves.

[@ccmarcum]

I agree and, like you, listen to this every so often, for pleasure. But look at the gaps between the other comments. Years?

[@riverman1949]

No music & no conductor, yet what a brilliant, soulful & authentic performance of this beautiful composition. Thank you for posting this piece. And thank you, the Rajko Orchestra. Unforgettable!

[@milandeb9849]

The conductor is the person with the baton at the front. There is a conductor

[@Dospot]

Roma zenészek egy zsinagógában.. Mi sem bizonyítja jobban, hogy a komolyzene multikulturális. Mellesleg a kedvenc youtube-os "verzióm"! Köszönöm Rajkók!:) Gypsy musicians in a synagoge.. Proofs, that classical music is multicultural. By the way, its my favourite interpretation on youtube.. Thank you Rajkos !:)

[@djrbfmbfm-woa]

hi guys, i'm Australian. anglo-saxon. what is needed to stir ppl's hearts in music: #1. great composition and research into it. #2. virtuoso performance by ppl who actually care about what they perform. Bartok Bela and Gyula Feher are at the very top of that list. prayers to them and all who listen to this most beautifully executed work. j.

[@NormanicusDiabolicus]

Absolutely wonderful. Bartok would be in tears of joy with this magnificent rendering.

[@psymouss]

Yesterday we were on the March of Living concert inthis sinagogue of Dohany Street in Budapest. Katica Illényi played this, and i must say, it was so strong and beautifull, i listened the whole song with open mouth. Katica was playing a long time in the Budapest Klezmer Band. Check their vids here, they are absolute professionals. Thank you for this video!!! It makes me feel good right now.

[@quakieee]

My life time gold is to continue and finish the study of romanian peoples folk music. For the romanians peasants the music is a general and natural pursuit. My universal guideline is the idea of the brotherhood of people despite all of the wars and misunderstandings" words by Bella Bartok

[@Aeoen]

They're playing in Budapest, Hungary. This song is called Romanian Folk Dances, by Bela Bartok.

[@mihaichiriac738]

Ma bucur ca Bartok , prin creatia lui , , a ilustrat frumusetea dansurilor populare romanesti !

[@AndreiM999]

Bela Bartok, composer and ethno-musicolog : father-slovak , mother-german , hungarian- citizen , born in Sannicolaul Mare (Great Saint-Nicholas)-today, west Romania !!

[@Lepcsi77]

the soloist's name Gyula Fehér (Julius White).He is not a conductor.He is a soloist in the rajkó Orchestra....He's my brother :)

[@endicottable]

Does he still play with the rajko orchestra? I'm going to Budapest in August. Can I see him play? Thanks!!!

[@בניהנדל-ע1ד]

You meant Fehér Gyula:-)

[@ccmarcum]

i hope he is still playing. His music is magical and his smile says it all,

[@Mr50Ulrich]

richtig super....-ORIGINALL !! Thank you ! Wonderful !!

[@olinwilliams]

I have come back to this video several times because I find it has a very beautiful sound, not slick like a major Western orchestra. It sounds very real to me. I love it. A few pitch problems are of no signifcance to me.

[@fierywomanpacnw7004]

You totally nailed it -- the sound! the sound!

[@JJarolsavv]

Those Romanian musicians are really fantastic.

[@mirceanistor9069]

These musicians are Hungarian Sinti or Rroma, not Romanians. Better known as gypsies, although nowadays this term is considered deprecatory,like the "n....o" word for Afroamericans..

[@medamine39]

Ambitious, Dynamic and Truly Artistic Gentlemen, Worth of appreciation, Thank you.

[@ImAnBoosterBaby]

i need to say that hungeryan and romanian folk songs are my my definetly lovelyst (i like irish and other celtic folk too but its SO different). i think the usic of a folk is the best way to imagine how they live ;) )

[@borjasaez620]

For me one of most interesting performances. The most mystical performance indeed

[@jonaestrada]

bartok, you are the man, so sad that he died so poor, but he was rich in his music

[@johcafra]

To quote Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington, "If it sounds good and feels good, then it IS good."

[@ramoncitoelbueno9631]

Mesmerizing, beautiful, captivating...thanks to Bartok Bela firstly, and then this particularly amazing ensemble that continues to show us what great musicians can always do under severe circumstances. Saludos desde Denver, CO, EU!

[@olinwilliams]

Just so dang engaging! I love the sound!

[@CriticalListener]

I've heard cleaner versions, better tuned versions--but I have to believe THIS is what Bartok had in mind when he wrote these movements. The freshness, that skein of wildness woven throughout--this is the spirit he wanted to portray. Rajko Orchestra did these just as they were meant to be heard.

[@megaman02468]

Yes. I've been listening to different recordings of this piece all afternoon. This is the last one I listened to and I have come to the same conclusion as you on the sound.

[@MetalMinded2011]

my thought exactly

[@borjasaez620]

This is my favourite version of all!

[@1987ulise]

Interesting and very original interpretation of this work of Bela Bartok. Never heard before.Thanks

[@erinsdatter32]

Imadom! Nagyon szep es szivhez szolo! Ilyenkor hazavagyom "kilfeldrol" :-) Csakigy tovabb!!!!!

[@balak1]

Lovely. Greetings and peace from Romania!

[@tonytrilex]

This piece isn't played like classical musicians so this is great Bartok would have loved this.

[@AnnaZiokowskaMazury]

Bardzo podoba mi się Bartok w tym wykonaniu.Wyrażnie słychać typowo węgierskie motywy chć muzyka węgierska i rumuńska miała w tamtych czasach wiele wspólnych motywów

[@kavaldzhia]

@musicproducers Hello ! I am a Romanian tambal cimbalom player and know this piece very well. This performance is very correct and well done... it is not meant to be gypsy allaballa but a classical arrangement of Romanian peasant (not gypsy) music. I'm sure that this excellent collective is up to playing traditional repertoir appropriately. With respect, Alexandru

[@ronronnante]

The most incredible about music is that it it does not care about "race", convictions nor nationality. So should we. What does this change if the lead violinist was Jew, Romanian or Polish or American? Just enjoy it!

[@psymouss]

Nopp. The are gypsy musicians, not jews. In a synagogue everyone have to wear some hat. Simply the kipa is the most comfortable and usual wearing in a temple. Anyway i think this movie was made on the jewish festival. So its an honor for us to hear them play and they wear kipas.

[@YehonatanLevi]

you are crazy, this is a masterpiece

[@daxdax500]

love it! Also love the fact they are playing everything from memory...

[@davazno1]

a great masterpiece .the composer is a genious.. 5/5

[@Targenor]

Just enjoy it! How cares, which nation??? Music is for everybody. Ebbe a csodálatos zenébe mindig beleborzongok. Nem lehet megunni.

[@1987ulise]

PASSION AND FIRE IN THIS VERSION!. THANKS TO RAJKO ORCHESTRA AND HIS VIOLIN SOLOIST.!

[@kagurathemonkey]

They play this beautifully. I love their outfits too.

[@lfpopa]

i saw these guys this october in budapest! they are awsome!

[@alexandrudemsilvanu4081]

Romanian music noted by Bartok in Transilvania, especially in Bihor area, from romanians villages.

[@nvsmp]

Beautiful, amazing, so nice, ... I cry when I listened this song.

[@marcelachiorean269]

Maestro Bartok complimenti!!💝bellissimo!!💝Bravo!!😍

[@z3g4]

This is exactly the way it should be played

[@rafaelvega17]

Nice 👏👏👏👏😭

[@josefptasinsky1206]

Nádherná ❤

[@navigator0634]

Had been composed approximately in the same years of the 20 th. century, both the Romanian Rhapsodies No.1 and 2 by Gheorghe Enescu and the Romanian Folk Dances by Béla Bartók bring the sound of Romanian music of different regions that make up the current Romania. In other words, a listener can hear the sounds that had been inspired from Wallachian and Moldavian melodies from the Rhapsodies by Enescu and can hear the sounds that had been inspired from Transylvanian melodies from this composition by Bartók. Thus it is possible to say that both composers who had been lived approximately in the same periods but from different countries had presented the aforementioned valuable works that contribute to the music of a country by which listeners achieve the "Big Picture" upon listening all of them. On the other hand, the interpretation of the Rajko Orchestra is notable since it gives the sound of "Taraf" formation who plays these melodies in the region, where Béla Bartók had encountered these melodies.

[@chinaispro]

It is nice to get a little twist in style, good work!!!

[@mavisemberson8737]

They dance their way through it!

[@aluisiod1910]

Amazing!🇧🇷👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@lagasa91]

@matewboss010 but it is"Romanian dances"inspired by the romanian folk music!Bella Bartok WAS RISEDAMONG ROMANIANS ,WITH ROMANIAN MUSIC INFLUENCE

[@Coolcat607]

lol he's not making mistakes. i'm playing this piece on the violin right now. as weird as it sounds to you, that is totally unmistakably the correct notes XD unfortunately i can't read your original comment, but you're right? to each his own. no one has to like every song that ever existed. and i like dodiezresibemol's comment.. it's pretty. hehe

[@peterlunow]

very exciting and beautiful !!!

[@z3g4]

Exactly how this music should be heard. Molto glissando! Expression is so much more important in this music then hitting every note. Bubblyviolin11 you have a lot to learn

[@giovannidallasta3311]

Straordinario Bartok!

[@alexandrudemsilvanu4081]

Giovanni Dall'asta Perche scusa è grande Bartok? Lui ha solo notato queste musiche del popolo Romeno, il merito è del popolo Romeno senz'altro!

[@goldanaye]

Liszt was an Austro-Hungarian and spoke German, he didnt't learn Hungarian until he was an adult, and he barely used it. Nevertheless he felt as a German Hungarian, too, so he's the perfect example of the Austro-Hungarian citizen.

[@MisterSpecialturkey]

Excellent

[@sesamestreet1980]

excellent

[@fantysq]

Nice. Loved it.

[@henryjohnfacey8213]

Absolutely brilliant. Visited Romania many times. Beautifully played wonderful people. Greetings from Yorkshire.

[@curaticac5391]

Great; then, you certainly noticed that the fiddlers were Hungarian Jews.

[@staccatofiddler]

@Viplexify Thank you very much for your explaination!!! It will make the difference to me!!! All the best!!! :)

[@intoxicatedk]

This is so beautiful

[@ianchow107]

omg! amazing. The authentic folk.

[@ritaangelachieffo9373]

Meraviglioso...wonderful..for me more interesting

[@isaacteli]

wow, surprising and amazing,

[@Valoe7]

Romanian songs arranged by a Hungarian composer being played by Gypsies in a Synagouge. Oy vey. :^)

[@NillesFactory]

JUST SO you know, bartok didn't arrange these, he composed them. in fact , everything he ever wrote is original music, only inspired by tradition folk music and whatever else. *thumnbs up*

[@bartoszwilk9245]

truely multiculti

[@slateflash]

Nope. He was a very innovative composer but THIS PARTICULAR SET of Romanian dances was arranged from existing melodies. There is a field recording made by Bartok of these dances being played and you can actually hear where he made edits in his arrangements

[@endicottable]

Where is this being played? Thx!

[@ZiSlepovitch]

@@NillesFactory Nope. kzbin.info/www/bejne/g5mmoHd_nrynsNk

[@mauriciodediego1511]

Interpretación genuína y fascinante ,me gusta.

[@semprelegato]

i love the uniform and the little beanies they have on top of their heads

[@emmanuelmassarotti5535]

It is the kippa

[@ccmarcum]

May you be forgiven for calling them beanies.😆😆

[@1987ulise]

WHAT IS THE NAME OF THIS AMAZING VIOLIN SOLOIST?. IS HE PART OF THE RADJO ORCHESTRA; HIS CONDUCTOR, OR IS HE ONLY HERE, ON A SPECIAL PRESENTATION?

[@giovannidallasta3311]

Bellissimo

[@alexchituta]

@Monicagd2007 Sannicolau Mare is a town in Romania!

[@kiaskakla]

Not the most accurate version, but still one of my favourites. The best for me is (dont laugh) the initial scale accompainment (B,C,D,C#/E first the soloist, then i think some wind, not sure) that makes the difference from other versions. I miss though, in the fourth movement, counterpart High A strings (i hope if you read this you understand, sorry for my english)

[@Taraoh]

szép :-)

[@Viplexify]

it's a pleasure :)

[@dzso22]

Tonny Dong Actually they are Hungarians and Hungarian Gypsies. The Romanian Dances are composed by a the Hungarian Béla Bartók, and they are based on Romanian folk songs, that were collected in Southern Transilvania. :-)

[@alexandrudemsilvanu4081]

Pásztor József Bartok did not compose this music, he only noted this songs from Romanian peoples in Transilvania.

[@keescanalfp5143]

Bartók composed the accompaniments to the folk melodies he had heard, recorded and written down, and to the children's songs “For Children”, based on hungarian and slovakian songs as well. he witnesses about this it was a lot more work for himself to find the right taste of arrangements fitting to the notated folk tunes, than composing and working out his own original pieces ..

[@harrietamidala1691]

interesting rendition.

[@7uos]

Sounds good.

[@heavyweightboxinglazzy4079]

For people are wondering where are they from they are Hungarian Gypsies they live in Budapest . The cimbalom player is my uncel

[@tjovadevalivat]

Say hi to your uncle from me

[@נירטירולר]

and the director violinist is the Rabi of my congregation.....

[@quakieee]

Thumbs up.

[@johannsebastianbach3411]

This is the folk spirit.

[@josefnagy3426]

yes, Béla Bartók composed after collecting folk songs, hungarian and romanian

[@MrFefefofo]

Many had better to listen to this beautiull music instead of writing rassist comments. If they can play better then this orcestra, here is the possibility on youtube to present.

[@四月是你的謊言-w3z]

「匈牙利」 • 巴爾托克 Bela Bartok (1881-1945) 羅馬尼亞民俗舞曲 Rumanian folk Dances 用類似五聲音階、但有西方特色 有民謠風味、跟當代台灣早期的作曲家有一點點像

[@AndreiM999]

Sure, Bela Bartok, a very good friend of romanians, was a hungarian, as I said, from slovak father and german mother and borned in Sannicolaul Mare, today in Romania. He didn,t choose it. It was matter of destiny. It was just a funny curiosity. I don,t see what,s your comment point.

[@amicka75]

wonderfull!! I play this piece on flute only.. is LUKÁCS in this orchestra? 5 stars!

[@Neilsowards]

I wish i could add more thumbs up.

[@margaretsch]

Notice it's ALL MEMORIZED! No one is reading music!

[@inaned]

Good!!!

[@OldSchopenhauer]

Deep, man.

SUPERB !!! Especially from 1:52 .... Viva Rumania, Viva Hungary !

[@richardboyer1080]

very nice:)

[@ymelfilm]

U may be right. But I think all of us has his/her own explanation. Different point of views, thats all. He can play well on the violin and anybody can make mistakes.

[@francyorjuela7368]

nothing like going to the source as a reference for this piece :)

[@iamasaph]

With respect, my friend, this orchestra are almost all of Roma descent. They were trained at the Budapest Academy in Hungary. They are wearing yarmulkes because they are playing in a synagogue, not because they are Jewish.

[@brandistocker]

this is the real equality. Cigány (Gipsy) orchestra in Hungary in a Synagogue playing Romanian folk dances of a Hungarian composer. ( He was collecting hungarian, romanian, serbian etc. folk songs, melodies ... )

[@alexmuresan9350]

This is typical for this part of the world: a lot of nationalities combined. In the end, if all work together and in good faith, something beautiful emerges. For comparison, check the music of Ioan Bocsa. Very similar sound, less "processed", closer to origins.

[@7stars977]

最高！！！！

[@classicmusiclife]

i find it great...and i am romanian

[@BardCoennius]

And if I am not mistaken, so was the composer.

[@harpamanu]

top

[@SubcarpatiRO2010]

@podiumocska he was born on Romanain land, but Hungarian rule, don`t missjudge people reading this.. This are nice song, too bad they don`t sound very Romanian.

[@Viplexify]

This is not racism, and the question is not stupid at all. They are gipsies, they define themselves as an orchestra of gipsies. Also, "Rajkó" means child in the roma (rom) language. They are wearing kipa only because they are playing in a Synagogue. (Dohány utca, Budapest)