Music from the Carpathian Bow
Music from the Carpathian Bow
Taking its name from the mountain pass through which Magyar tribes crossed into the Carpathian basin to settle what later became the Austro - Hungarian Empire, Veretski Pass offers a unique and exciting combination of virtuosic musicianship and raw energy that has excited concertgoers across the world. With colorful instrumentation, unique arrangements and compositions, Veretski Pass plays ‘Old Country Music’; music with origins in the Ottoman Empire, once fabled as the borderlands of the East and the West. In a true collage of Carpathian, Jewish, Romanian and Ottoman styles, typical suites contain dances from Moldavia and Bessarabia; Jewish melodies from Poland and Rumania, Hutzul wedding music from Carpathian-Ruthenia, and haunting Rebetic aires from Smyrna, seamlessly integrated with original compositions. They recently performed at the prestigious Concertgebouw Concert Hall in Amsterdam to a sold out audience with a standing ovation, and their eponymous CD has repeatedly been on the 10 best recordings lists of journalists.
Click HERE for a video clip from a concert in Fürth, Germany in 2007
Click HERE for a video clip of Veretski Pass “at home” 2010
Click HERE to read Fiddler Magazine’s feature: Klezmer Fiddler Cookie Segelstein: New Stylings from the Old Country, Part One
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