Step into the dimension of Hungarian music…
We would love to be your guide on a Hungarian Music & Composers tour! Check out our TOURS.
First of all, Wikipedia has a very long list of Hungarian composers, from classic to modern music. Check it out here.
Hungarian music wouldn’t be today what it is without them (our list is incomplete 🙂 ):
CLASSICAL
Franz Liszt
Hungarian Rapsody
Béla Bartók
Music for Strings, Percussion & Celesta
Zoltán Kodály
János Háry suite
Ferenc Erkel
The Hungarian National Anthem
Bánk Bán – national opera fragment: Hazám, hazám…
Ernő Dohnányi
György Cziffra
OPERETTA
Imre Kálmán
Csárdás Queen – fragment
Ferenc Lehár
Gypsy Love – operetta fragment
FOLK
Csík Zenekar
Most múlik pontosan
Sebestyén Márta
Teremtés
Marta’s Song (Deep Forest)
The English Patient – movie
Ghymes
At the Danube
GYPSY
Bálint Sárosi music historian has a very good series on Gypsy music from 1975, available on the Youtube in very long parts, with Hungarian explanation, still much enjoyable if you just listen to the music. One can understand through his explanation why Gypsy music is not equal to Hungarian music, however a special Hungarian music was born with the help of Gypsy instruments and sounds best when played by Gypsy musicians.
You can start this beautiful journey in the world of Hungarian Gypsy music here.
The 100 Gypsy Violins
KLEZMER
Budapest Klezmer Band
Various, iconic in Hungary
Rezső Seress
Gloomy Sunday – the Hungarian ‘suicide song’
Omega
The girl with pearl hair
Edda
The unfaithful
I’ve dreamed a world
Piramis
Wish I had two lives
Tamás Cseh
Budapest
Illés
On the street (1965)
LGT
I write the song to you (1976)
Beatrice
Metropolitan wolves (1978)
Hobo Blues Band
Kőbánya Blues
Karthago
Requiem (1983)
Péter Máté
You live now (Elmegyek – 1984)
Ákos
I’m searching my way (Hűség – 2000)
Kispál és a Borz
Csillag vagy fecske (Turisták bárhol – 2003)
Magdi Rúzsa
Ederlezi (in Hungarian Idol contest 2005/2006)