Adrian Andrei

Six danses de Transylvanie

Conceived in just one day, this suite for guitar and piano dives into the universe of the traditional Romanian music from Transylvania. The six dances I selected for this work come from the violin repertoire and they all ritualic. Following the way Bartok dealt with the folk music I came back to my own way of using traditional music and I made several developments to the main themes. The result was a dynamic suite, in the modal language, which is ready to inspire all musicians willing to discover a fresh repertoire.