‘Fast Dance’ (Maruntel), the final section of Béla Bartók’s suite of Romanian Folk Dances, whirls in an accelerating crescendo at the #bbcproms. In the early 1900s, Bartók and fellow Hungarian composer Zoltán Kodály spent 10 years travelling around the remote regions of Hungary, Eastern Europe and North Africa in a horse-drawn cart, recording the authentic peasant music they encountered using an Edison phonograph and wax cylinders. Their transcription and cataloguing of more than 10,000 folk son

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12K views · 271 reactions | An evening of music inspired by the folk traditions of Hungary with the BBC Philharmonic  Bartok’s Concerto for Orchestra conducted by Anja Bihlmaier. Watch tonight on BBC Four or BBC iPlayer #classicalmusic #bbcproms #folkmusic #bartok | BBC Proms | Facebook