Taraf de Haïdouks - "Romanian Folk Dances"

Live recording from the "Maskarada" sessions. Bartok drew his inspiration from Balkan folk music to compose this famous piece in 1915. Taraf de Haïdouks have now repossessed it and given it a wild make-over...

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[justlucamatei]

Prostul cand nu are argumente, injura, scuipa si loveste! :))))) Bravo!

[kakdakaktush]

I find this music amazing!, the skills are superb!!, roma soul is beautiful!!!

It's a pitty anyway all the racists comments, most of them came from people who have never been in their shoes (the 'real situation', not the 'romantic' one)...

Love, respect and greetings from Mexico :)

[Caprar Razvan]

gypsy, not roma

[qthost38]

3:03 Bartok.. he came among us... he took Romanian music.. he stole Romanian music.. well we think he didn't really stole it, he listened to it and then he did classical music with it. And then, we listened to Bartok music a little bit and then we adapted it in 2 hours in Romanian dance melodies. Because we play by ear

5:02

Bartok, I don't know Bartok. I don't know. I know Romanian music. It comes from here (show his ear). No paper, no score, G, C, E, A, A#, we don't know that here

[setram13]

TRUE MUSICIANS!!!!

[John Miriam]

This has been the music played in Romania for centuries. What a shame people don't know about it anymore.

I know it because when I was very small in my granpa's house some "lautari" used to come and play to us... it was very much like this. Don't say it's not romanian folk music cause you have no clue.

Real romanian folk music isn't Irina Login and Ion Dolanescu... they are just some recent artists fabricated by the television.

[John Miriam]

Um yes it is. Well, in fact it's classical music inspired by romanian dance music. Hence it's called "Romanian Folk dances/Danses roumaines"- by Bela Bartok.

The guy is explaining that the band had learned to play the song in only 10 minutes just by listening to it on a cassette. That is further proof that this is romanian music, as they could only learn it so fast since they were already accustomed to this kind of music.

This has been the music played in Romania for centuries.

[Lavinia Carolina]

This is not romanian folk .

[Pamela Moutoussi]

For centuaries it was only jews and gypsies who were hired folk musicians. In some countires that was actually law at some point ! The played for everyone, all the weddings etc. and it all got mixed in. They adpted their music to the tastes of their hosts but kept their own for their own too.You cannot play eastern European folk music without their influence, there is no such thing. 

[LaurentziusRo88]

Actually it is Romanian folk music you ignorant. The musicians are indeed gypsy, but the music they're playing is Bartok's "Romanian Folk Dances". The gypsies play the local music, in Romania they play Romanian folk, in Spain they play flamenco for example.

[LSK100]

this is gipsy music, not romanian folk.

[danigo Noventa]

rumania