Peter Balogh Orchestra Hallelujah to You
created: 30. 04. 2025 13:37 modified: 30. 04. 2025 13:43
Peter Balogh Orchestra is a musical ensemble founded in 2017, founded and artistic director is violinist Peter Balogh Sr. The members of the orchestra are from Slovakia and Hungary, they perform not only in Slovakia, but also in various countries of Europe and Asia. The orchestra's repertoire includes a wide range of genres, but mainly film music, operetta, jazz, Slovak and Hungarian folklore and so-called evergreens.
The composition February Love was composed by the Hungarian composer and violinist Járóka Sándor Jr. The instrumental composition presents a strong violin solo and the elements of Romani music characteristic of Hungary. The piece is popular for its emotional melody and virtuoso violin passages.
The recording was made on August 16, 2023 in M Arena in Prešov, it is part of the documentation of Roma cimbalom bands within the framework of DICRK activities.
Instruments and cast:
Peter Balogh Sr. - violin, the lead violin
Peter Balogh Jr. - the second violin
Jónás Géze - cimbalom
Bakoš Kálmán - viola
Sarközy Pál - double bass
category: music
tags: instrumental modern folk borrowed Peter Balogh Orchestra general audience internal
Peter Balogh Orchestra I Have a Hat with a Green Ribbon
created: 30. 04. 2025 11:48 modified: 30. 04. 2025 11:48
Peter Balogh Orchestra is a musical ensemble founded in 2017, founded and artistic director is violinist Peter Balogh Sr. The members of the orchestra are from Slovakia and Hungary, they perform not only in Slovakia, but also in various countries of Europe and Asia. The orchestra's repertoire includes a wide range of genres, but mainly film music, operetta, jazz, Slovak and Hungarian folklore and so-called evergreens.
The composition February Love was composed by the Hungarian composer and violinist Járóka Sándor Jr. The instrumental composition presents a strong violin solo and the elements of Romani music characteristic of Hungary. The piece is popular for its emotional melody and virtuoso violin passages.
The recording was made on August 16, 2023 in M Arena in Prešov, it is part of the documentation of Roma cimbalom bands within the framework of DICRK activities.
Instruments and cast:
Peter Balogh Sr. - violin, the lead violin
Peter Balogh Jr. - the second violin
Jónás Géze - cimbalom
Bakoš Kálmán - viola
Sarközy Pál - double bass
category: music
tags: instrumental modern folk borrowed Peter Balogh Orchestra general audience internal
Peter Balogh Orchestra My Dear Mother Advised Me Greatly There is no Better Musician
created: 30. 04. 2025 11:30 modified: 02. 05. 2025 13:33
Peter Balogh Orchestra is a musical ensemble founded in 2017, founded and artistic director is violinist Peter Balogh Sr. The members of the orchestra are from Slovakia and Hungary, they perform not only in Slovakia, but also in various countries of Europe and Asia. The orchestra's repertoire includes a wide range of genres, but mainly film music, operetta, jazz, Slovak and Hungarian folklore and so-called evergreens.
The composition February Love was composed by the Hungarian composer and violinist Járóka Sándor Jr. The instrumental composition presents a strong violin solo and the elements of Romani music characteristic of Hungary. The piece is popular for its emotional melody and virtuoso violin passages.
The recording was made on August 16, 2023 in M Arena in Prešov, it is part of the documentation of Roma cimbalom bands within the framework of DICRK activities.
Instruments and cast:
Peter Balogh Sr. - violin, the lead violin
Peter Balogh Jr. - the second violin
Jónás Géze - cimbalom
Bakoš Kálmán - viola
Sarközy Pál - double bass
category: music
tags: instrumental modern folk borrowed Peter Balogh Orchestra general audience internal
Peter Balogh Orchestra God punishes
created: 29. 04. 2025 09:49 modified: 29. 04. 2025 09:56
Peter Balogh Orchestra is a musical ensemble founded in 2017, founded and artistic director is violinist Peter Balogh Sr. The members of the orchestra are from Slovakia and Hungary, they perform not only in Slovakia, but also in various countries of Europe and Asia. The orchestra's repertoire includes a wide range of genres, but mainly film music, operetta, jazz, Slovak and Hungarian folklore and so-called evergreens.
The composition February Love was composed by the Hungarian composer and violinist Járóka Sándor Jr. The instrumental composition presents a strong violin solo and the elements of Romani music characteristic of Hungary. The piece is popular for its emotional melody and virtuoso violin passages.
The recording was made on August 16, 2023 in M Arena in Prešov, it is part of the documentation of Roma cimbalom bands within the framework of DICRK activities.
Instruments and cast:
Peter Balogh Sr. - violin, the lead violin
Peter Balogh Jr. - the second violin
Jónás Géze - cimbalom
Bakoš Kálmán - viola
Sarközy Pál - double bass
category: music
tags: instrumental modern orchestra folk borrowed Peter Balogh Orchestra general audience internal
Peter Balogh Orchestra I Lost Al
created: 29. 04. 2025 09:40 modified: 29. 04. 2025 09:56
Peter Balogh Orchestra is a musical ensemble founded in 2017, founded and artistic director is violinist Peter Balogh Sr. The members of the orchestra are from Slovakia and Hungary, they perform not only in Slovakia, but also in various countries of Europe and Asia. The orchestra's repertoire includes a wide range of genres, but mainly film music, operetta, jazz, Slovak and Hungarian folklore and so-called evergreens.
The composition February Love was composed by the Hungarian composer and violinist Járóka Sándor Jr. The instrumental composition presents a strong violin solo and the elements of Romani music characteristic of Hungary. The piece is popular for its emotional melody and virtuoso violin passages.
The recording was made on August 16, 2023 in M Arena in Prešov, it is part of the documentation of Roma cimbalom bands within the framework of DICRK activities.
Instruments and cast:
Peter Balogh Sr. - violin, the lead violin
Peter Balogh Jr. - the second violin
Jónás Géze - cimbalom
Bakoš Kálmán - viola
Sarközy Pál - double bass
category: music
tags: instrumental modern orchestra folk borrowed Peter Balogh Orchestra general audience internal
Peter Balogh Orchestra February Love
created: 28. 04. 2025 11:40 modified: 28. 04. 2025 13:45
Peter Balogh Orchestra is a musical ensemble founded in 2017, founded and artistic director is violinist Peter Balogh Sr. The members of the orchestra are from Slovakia and Hungary, they perform not only in Slovakia, but also in various countries of Europe and Asia. The orchestra's repertoire includes a wide range of genres, but mainly film music, operetta, jazz, Slovak and Hungarian folklore and so-called evergreens.
The composition February Love was composed by the Hungarian composer and violinist Járóka Sándor Jr. The instrumental composition presents a strong violin solo and the elements of Romani music characteristic of Hungary. The piece is popular for its emotional melody and virtuoso violin passages.
The recording was made on August 16, 2023 in M Arena in Prešov, it is part of the documentation of Roma cimbalom bands within the framework of DICRK activities.
Instruments and cast:
Peter Balogh Sr. - violin, the lead violin
Peter Balogh Jr. - the second violin
Jónás Géze - cimbalom
Bakoš Kálmán - viola
Sarközy Pál - double bass
category: music
tags: instrumental modern orchestra folk borrowed Peter Balogh Orchestra general audience internal
Living Book Holocaust Ďusi Band Jewish Songs
created: 12. 01. 2024 10:30 modified: 12. 01. 2024 10:34
The family band called Ďusi Band consists of Július Bandy Sr. and his three sons Kristián, Július, and the youngest Samuel. The cimbalom band from Prešov presents the best tradition of the Romani cimbalom groups with the high interpretive art of their members as well as the scope and genre richness of their repertoire. It consists of folklore typically Romani but also Slovak and other nations‘ and nationalities‘, the band also plays classical music and does well in playing music of the genres such as jazz, pop or film tunes.
The performance of two Jewish melodies (the first with unknown name and origin, the second named Foolisch Freilich Dance) was recorded during the Living Book on the Holocaust event, in Prešov, on September 27, 2018.
Musical instruments and musicians who play them
Violin (primas) - Samuel Bandy
Double bass - Július Bandy Jr.
Viola - Kristián Bandy
Dulcimer - Julius Bandy Sr.
category: music
tags: instrumental modern folk quartet borrowed Ďusi Band general audience internal
Yiddish Czardasz Czardas A Moll Dusi Band
created: 12. 01. 2024 08:14 modified: 12. 01. 2024 08:16
Roma Holocaust in Prešov, September 27, 2018.
The family band called Ďusi Band consists of Július Bandy Sr. and his three sons Kristián, Július, and the youngest Samuel. The cimbalom band from Prešov presents the best tradition of the Romani cimbalom groups with the high interpretive art of their members as well as the scope and genre richness of their repertoire. It consists of folklore typically Romani but also Slovak and other nations‘ and nationalities‘, the band also plays classical music and does well in playing music of the genres such as jazz, pop or film tunes. The video was recorded during the Living Book on the Holocaust event, in Prešov, on September 27, 2018.
Musical instruments and musicians who play them
Violin (primas) - Samuel Bandy
Double bass - Július Bandy Jr.
Viola - Kristián Bandy
Cimbalom - Julius Bandy Sr.
category: music
tags: instrumental modern folk quartet borrowed Ďusi Band general audience internal
Living Book Holocaust Ďusi band Hatikva (Jewish Anthem)
created: 27. 11. 2023 13:24 modified: 10. 01. 2024 11:09
Hatikva, Ha-Tikva — Israel's national anthem. Its lyrics express the hope of Jews to return to their country and their desire to live there in calm, peace and harmony (hatikva = hope in Hebrew). The lyrics was written in 1878 by Naftali Herz Imber (*1856, †1909) as poem, published in 1886 titled Tikvatenu (Our Hope). The author of melody is Samuel Cohen, the composer and immigrant from Moldova. He composed it as a popular Moldovan-Romanian folk melody, in which musical motifs from The Vltava, a composition which is a part of music cycle My Homeland by Bedrich Smetana. In time of 7th Zionist Congress in Basel (1905) it was already widely known and popular. Its status as the anthem of the Zionist movement was confirmed at the 18th Congres in Prague (1933). In 1948 it became the national anthem of the state Israel. In some communities, it is sung as the closing song of a thanksgiving service or after a meal.
The video is a recording of the instrumental interpretation of the song performed by the Roma band Ďusi Band.
The family band called Ďusi Band consists of Július Bandy Sr. and his three sons Kristián, Július, and the youngest Samuel. The cimbalom band from Prešov presents the best tradition of the Romani cimbalom groups with the high interpretive art of their members as well as the scope and genre richness of their repertoire. It consists of folklore typically Romani but also Slovak and other nations‘ and nationalities‘, the band also plays classical music and does well in playing music of the genres such as jazz, pop or film tunes. The Romani song Hatikvah in an instrumental version was recorded during the Living Book on the Holocaust event, in Prešov, on September 27, 2018.
Musical instruments and musicians who play them
Violin (primas) - Samuel Bandy
Double bass - Július Bandy Jr.
Viola - Kristián Bandy
Cimbalom - Julius Bandy Sr.
category: music
tags: instrumental modern folk quartet borrowed Ďusi Band general audience internal
Daje, daje - Štefan Cína and the Folk Band
created: 28. 08. 2023 16:53 modified: 28. 08. 2023 16:54
The Romani folk song, recorded on July 8, 2022 as part of the series Documentation of Romani Cimbalom Folk Bands in Slovakia. It’s a dance song in fast tempo, the traditional Romungro czardasz. The Cínas (the siblings Štefan – accordion, Martina – violin, vocals) learned the song at home from their father, who learned it from his father. The lyrics of the song is in the Romani language.
category: music
tags: vocal-instrumental modern folk quintet borrowed Romani Štefan Cína's Folk Music Band general audience internal
