Product DescriptionA melody with a wicked glint that sets the pulses racing...a single note that captures and age of heartbreak and sorrow...Gypsy music is unmistakeable. The violin soars and dances, playful and inviting, then turns to a sweet, loving ache. It s pure passion, and that is what Hungarianbornviolinist Ferenc Illenyi mines on his album Gypsy Dream A first violinist in the Houston Symphony Orchestra, Illenyi is a lauded figure in the classical world. But on this recording, he delves into his past, to the music that lives inside his soul. was classically trained,he explains. That was my education, but growing up in Hungary, Gypsy music is there in your soul, subliminally. With classical music you do as you are told, you play what s in the score. Gypsy music is so much freer, people take and add their own parts to the melody.