Notes and Editorial Reviews
In Roma fairy tales, it is usually the devil who imbues Gypsy music with its inimitable vivacity. And when listening to Cigánski diabli, you cannot help but believe it. The popularity of this Gypsy orchestra has crossed the borders of their native Slovakia into Moravia, Bohemia and much further afield. Of late, they have been giving concerts abroad with increasing frequency – Germany (including at the BerlinPhilharmonic Hall), England, France, Canada, etc. The ensemble, made up of eight professional, classically trained musicians, has already received three platinum discs. A traditional cimbalom band? Well, yes and no. They have, so to speak, many more strings to their bow: folk music (ranging from Slovak to Jewish), on occasions walking a
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tightrope between pop and jazz, at other times performing Haydn together with a "classical" pianist or a symphony orchestra. And since Brahms, Liszt and Dvorák were inspired by the "Gypsy style", why not turn things on their head and play their music the Gypsy way? With their characteristic virtuosity and vivacity, Cigánski diabli have entered the rarefied domain of classical music - yet in a manner entirely of their own and with arrangements not respecting the borders of genres. But what’s the use of borders when the music is of such splendor? Read less
Works on This Recording
1.
Adagio for Organ and Strings in G minor by Tomaso Albinoni
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Gypsy Devils
Period: Baroque
Written: Venice, Italy
2.
Hungarian Dances (21) for Orchestra, WoO 1: no 5 in G minor by Johannes Brahms
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Gypsy Devils
Period: Romantic
Written: 1868; Austria
3.
Hungarian Dances (21) for Orchestra, WoO 1: no 12 in D minor by Johannes Brahms
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Gypsy Devils
Period: Romantic
Written: 1868-1880; Austria
4.
Slavonic Dances (8) for Orchestra, Op. 46/B 83: no 8 in G minor, Furiant by Antonín Dvorák
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Gypsy Devils
Period: Romantic
Written: 1878; Bohemia
5.
Concerto for Keyboard in D major, H 18 no 11: 3rd movement, Rondo all'ungarese "Allegro assai" by Franz Joseph Haydn
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Gypsy Devils
Period: Classical
Written: by 1784; Eszterhazá, Hungary
6.
Caprices (24) for Violin solo, Op. 1: no 24 in A minor by Niccolň Paganini
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Gypsy Devils
Period: Romantic
Written: circa 1805; Italy
7.
Zigeunerweisen, Op. 20 by Pablo de Sarasate
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Gypsy Devils
Period: Romantic
Written: 1878
8.
Zigeunermelodien (7), Op. 55: no 4, Als die alte Mutter by Antonín Dvorák
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Gypsy Devils
Period: Romantic
Written: 1880; Bohemia
9.
Gräfin Mariza: Komm Zigány by Emmerich Kálmán
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Gypsy Devils
Period: Post-Romantic
10.
Gipsy Dances by Franz Paul Rigler
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Gypsy Devils
11.
Hungarian Rhapsodies (19) for Piano, S 244: no 2 in C sharp minor by Franz Liszt
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Gypsy Devils
Period: Romantic
Written: 1847; Hungary
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