Roby Lakatos & his Ensemble at Grant Park, Chicago (July 11, 2007)

Gypsy violinist Roby Lakatos is not only a scorching virtuoso, but a musician of extraordinary stylistic versatility. Equally comfortable performing classical music as he is playing jazz and in his own Hungarian folk idiom, Lakatos is the rare musician who defies definition. He is referred to as a gypsy violinist or "devil's fiddler", a classical virtuoso, a jazz improviser, a composer and arranger, and a 19th-century throwback, and he is actually all of these things at once. He is the kind of universal musician so rarely encountered in our time—a player whose strength as an interpreter derives from his activities as an improviser and composer. He has performed at the great halls and festivals of Europe, Asia and America.When Roby Lakatos mixes the so-called "classical music" with the magic of the Hungarian-gypsy vitality, it does not turn into a disrespectful attitude toward the higher cultural heritage, but it more reflects the deep tradition rooted in the cultural heritage of the Gypsy people and offers new, refreshing pleasures to the listener and music lover. And just as Liszt, Brahms and others used the Hungarian overtones in their compositions, so now the public profits from the confrontation of these classics with the gypsy roots. This enlivens all those men and women in whose veins still pulses at least a little bit of the blood of the wandering spirit. This performance took place in Chicago's Grant Park. Wonderful experiance! to find out more go to robylakatos.com

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[Btibor66]

Drága Jenő!

Arany kezeid vannak!

[dnsakord02]

Az már teknika??volt vagy 13 éves amikor hallottam utoljára:)talán hévízen....de már akkor is csoda volt.

[YouKnowIAmRight]

Amazing............ : )

[slike87]

@fitulus I totally agree with you ;)

[MrKala77]

Nagyon nagy élmény hallgatni benneteket Jenő!!!TOVÁBBI SOK SIKERT!!!

[ormoluinhen]

both the cymbalom and piano players blew my mind (and roby too of course) - saw them in Bristol, was best live concert I have ever been to - spellbinding

[fallaziyo]

Quelle bruit insuportable

[canadianroot]

saw them tonight in seoul. what a pleasant surprise. well, that's an understatement. i was completely blown away! these players have been playing since before they were born, it seems. unbelievable!

[fitulus]

this is gypsy tradiotional music this kind of music can play only a gypsy human and thats it!! u can believe me im a gypsy too they are all from hungary except the piano player is from bratislava

janoska frantisek named his one of my favorit piano players my dad was a musicant he could play every instrument and im also musicant i play piano so all i wanna say believe me its gypsy traditional music and nobody can play it only WE THE GYPSYS ITS ORIGINAL FROM US thnx great video

[Magyaraucano]

This is Jazz