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Featuring Ferenc
Gypsy Dream
Featuring Ferenc
Genres: Jazz, Pop
 
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A 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 swe...  more »

     
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All Artists: Gypsy Dream
Title: Featuring Ferenc
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Label: +180 Records
Release Date: 8/12/2014
Genres: Jazz, Pop
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Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPCs: 899653002352, 899653002352, 899653002352, 899653002352

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A 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.

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IC B. (icberry)
Reviewed on 1/25/2020...
"Gypsy Dream (Mesa/Blue Moon 2352) features the violin of Ferenc Illenyi, who has the proper passion and liquid approach of the style down very well, very expressively.

He is out front in a small ensemble that owes something to the Reinhardt-Grappelli Hot Club sound. Erich Avinger does some quasi-Django guitar in a nice way and the addition of Andrew Leinhard on piano gives the music a slightly different emphasis. There are various guests throughout the program, with Chris Maresh a constant on acoustic bass.

This is especially a showcase for Ferenc, who has a beautiful sound and a classical-plus-improvisatory prowess. The music varies between Django favorites, Gypsy fusion and the old-style Gypsy sound.

It is quite well done. If you appreciate the Gypsy revival but don't want to stay too firmly in the Hot Club sound, this one ranges much more widely. And you don't feel like you are listening to rehashed Reinhardt-Grappelli as much as experiencing another take on the tradition."

2014 review, from Gapplegate http://gapplegatemusicreview.blogspot.com/2014/05/ferenc-gypsy-dream.html?m=1