Romania ~ The Real Tradition of Transylvania [Ocora, 1979]

Ocora - Romania. The real tradition of Transylvania
[Roumanie - La Vraie Tradition de Transylvanie]
Ocora C 559070, recorded 1974-79, CD released 1989

A survey of the musical folklore of Transylvania, presenting flutes and double flutes, bagpipes, songs and violins.
A pioneering disc when it was first made in the 1970s as it highlights real peasant music from Maramures and Transylvania when sanitised folklore was prevalent. It features some excellent ensembles, bagpipes and a violin with a horn, and from Maramures there's a track from Gheorghe Covaci, the son of a fiddler Bartók recorded in 1913.

Hungarian Music from Transylvania [Inedit]

Hungarian Music from Transylvania -
Traditions of Gyimes and the Great Plain
(Musiques Hongroises de Transylvanie)
Inedit W 260098, recorded 1997-2000, CD released 2001

TRADITION OF GYIMES - János Zerkula, violin &
Regina Zerkula, ütögardon

1. Pair dances, fast and slow
2. Lament, Hungarian dances
3. Csárdás

TRADITION OF THE GREAT PLAIN - Mária Maneszes 'Láli', vocals
& Magyarszovát Taraf (2 violins, 2 three-stringed violas, double bass)

4. One dark starless night
5. Funeral accompaniment, vigil night song and Gypsy dance
6. I thought that as long as the world
7. Slow Gypsy, Gypsy dance, csársás