Joszef Lendvai Sr. plays the gypsy violin, while Oszkar Okros is a master of the instrument known as the cimbalom. Together, the two musicians — teaming up with the Budapest Festival Orchestra — put a ...

Born in Hamburg in Germany, Johannes Brahms quickly became a very talented pianist and would go on to premiere many of his own works at the piano. A complete perfectionist, Brahms burnt lots of the ...

If you had turned up at the popular C19 Viennese tavern, Zum Roten Igel (The Red Hedgehog) - you might well have bumped in to Schubert, Schumann, Mendelssohn or Brahms, enjoying jokes, goulash, gypsy ...

THE ESO, with William Boughton on the rostrum, swirled into the gypsy rhythms of Brahms's Hungarian Dance No. 1. With strong tempi and surges of colourful sound, along with the double-basses and ...

WE started this month's columns with Brahms, and before I take any more earbashing and am flayed alive we will finish the month's columns with the same composer, and square things up a bit. The issue ...

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Nothing asserts “Hungarian Gypsy music” quite strongly as a cimbalom centre stage. In case you haven’t met one before, it’s a large zither on legs, its elaborate system of strings played with a pair ...