Patchwork Europe
Early Recordings 1911-1954
Patchwork Europe
Early Recordings 1911-1954
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About
European folk music has not one sound but many. There are countless soundscapes between Sardinia and Norway, from the Atlantic coast to the Urals, each one distinct. All have their own character. Europe means polyphony, a thicket of diversity where for millennia cultures have been flowing together and drifting apart, creating a musical patchwork. Traditional music? The term suggests constancy and permanence: familiar tunes and homely songs. The melodies of the past seem to offer a stable foothold, in opposition to the ever faster innovations of the present. However this nostalgia is an illusion, a false idyll. Many of the musical styles we now perceive as traditional were originally radical and modern. They resulted from dramatic changes which shook the 19th century European world and turned it upside down. The industrial revolution triggered technical innovations and social change on a massive scale. New instruments were invented: the accordion, mouth organ, concertina, banjo and saxophone, plus brass instruments equipped with valves like the trumpet and tuba. Later, factory production turned these new musical instruments into relatively cheap mass produced items which many people could afford. Christoph Wagner collected for this WERGO CD a wonderful musical patchwork of styles and traditions.
Contents
- Ireland – Cashin, Cawley & Ford: Bashful Bachelor + Sunshine Hornpipe
- Scotland – William Hannah's Band: Scottish or Foursome Reel
- England – Jack Armstrong and his Northumbrian Barnstormers: Morpeth Rant
- France – Jean Pradal et Martin Cayla: Polka Piquée
- Portugal – Ermelinda Vitória: Fado da Minha Aldeia
- Spain – La Niña de los Peines: Sevillanas
- Mallorca – Agrupación Folklórica de Valldemossa: Parado de Valldemossa
- Norway – Gjermund Haugen: Markensmandagen
- Denmark – Folkedanseorkestret: Hattemageren
- Germany – Münchner Original-Terzett Georg Weinschütz: Tegernseer Landler
- Switzerland – Urnäscher Streichmusik & Jodler Quartett: Alpufzug
- Austria – Volkssänger-Familie Simboeck: Innviertler Landler
- Italy – Nullo Romani: Buon principio d'anno
- Sardinia – Efisio Melis: Mediana in re maggiore
- Sicily – I Quattro Siciliani: Camporeale Bello
- Finland – Erik Kivi: Punaliivi
- Belarus – Gregory Matusewitch: Yiddisher Wulach
- Poland – Eduard Mika i Tadeusz Zadroga: Staropolski kujawiak
- Czech Republic/Slovakia – Sió Aladár és Zenekara: Mindenféle Szerelemnek
- Hungary – Olah Lajos: Biró uram és sárga cserebogár
- Serbia/Croatia – Verni's Troubadours Tamburica Orchestra: Micika Polka
- Albania – Riza Hakdin Me Shoket: Çelni ju moj lule çelni
- Greece – Georgia Mittaki & Laikis Orchistras: Tha horepseis gero
- Romania – Orhestra Traian L?scut: Doina ?i Ardeleana de la Sibiu
- Ukraine – Ukrainska Orchestra Pawla Humeniuk: Zaporozec Polka
- Russia – Sisters Fiodorov: Kukushka
