PANTA RHEI - Quarts

Hungarian Progressive Rock band PANTA RHEI performing Bela Bartok's "Quarts".

PANTA RHEI were similar to Emerson Lake and Palmer, who also did Prog Rock adaptions of Symphonic/Classical music.

Bela Bartok was a Hungarian composer in the early 20th Century, he was the man behind Quarts.

PANTA RHEI's version is very rare as the Bartok family disapproved Panta Rhei of releasing it.

Panta Rhei were founded in Hungary in 1974 by two brothers Alex and Andres Szalay, Kalman Matolcsy on keyboards and synthsizers, Csaba Beke on drums.

Panta Rhei built their own modulator and computer synthesizers.

Panta Rhei went fully electronica in the 1980s.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Panta
• Rhei
• bartok
• quarts
• prog
• progressive
• rock
• classical
• symphonic
• music
• ELP
• hungary

[iivan1966]

Just some addition: Andras and Sandor Szalay became scientist, later Andras developed the best guitar synthesizer systems first for Shadow (british company) then for Axon (german company), Sandor is an astrophysicist in USA.

[kraftneu]

great, thank you for that information, something I did not know. Very interesting, I believe in the early 1980s they developed the Muzix81 system and recorded an entire album on it, the album is "PR Computer". I also recall Panta Rhei had a female singer in the 1970s, as well as a male singer for a brief period in 1980.

[kraftneu]

This is one of my first Movie Maker creations, sorry if it seems a bit amateurish, least the music is cool.

[thorn841]

Frakk, a macskák réme avantgárd feldolgozásban.

Egyébként egy idegesítő szar!

How can people listen this....this......I don't know what?

[TheSymmachus]

Great music. By the looks of it, it seems pretty rare too. Thanks for the upload.

[lionman0731]

Sokszor láttam őket élőben az Ifjusági Parkban.Nagyon profi igényes zenekar volt.Nagyobb megbecsülést érdemeltek volna mint amit kaptak a kedves "hanglemezgyártóktól".

[Pofazovics]

Béla Bartók: Allegro Barbaro. Sorry, but I can't upload this awesome piece of Bartók. It had his name after a critic from France qualified a Hungarian folk melody adapted to a piano piece "barbarian". By the way, his Ist and IIIrd piano concertos, that are really inspired (by my opinion).

[feri561]

Hi Kraftneu,

Congrats. Great job.

To get a so rare audio material (in Hungary is also rare having only 1 posthumus CD!) and to make a little Movie from also rare pics from the band.

Unfortunately sometimes the bands: 1.Panta Rhei (from Hungary) 2. Panta Rhei (from East Germany) and 3. Panta Rei (from Sweden) are mixed. However all the 3 are close to progressive and jezz-rock.

This movie can be an example to correct the misunderstandings...

[a21gramm]

"Panta Rhei" is ancient Greek, its meaning is: everything is in motion.

Otherwise, this band was fully amateur; 2 physicist (Szalay Andras bass and Szalay Sandor guitar, brothers), a music teacher (Matolcsy Kalman keyboards), and Beke Csaba drum player.

Unfortunately Matolcsy Kalman stepped away a few years ago, he was really an excellent keyboardist. Rest in peace...

Kraftneu, you were born and live in Wales, I can't imagine, how do you know and how did you get music of Panta Rhei...? :-)

[AdolfvonHeidrich]

how good is my homeland, Hungary ^^