Great Christmas Folk Music with Ági Szalóki A Zeneakadémia saját szervezésű programja

It is just twenty years ago that a fragile girl made her debut at a Besh o droM concert; such energy flowed from her presence that it nearly caused a power blackout. Since then she has recorded many albums and achieved great success, she has tried her hand at jazz, at singing Katalin Karády, a good few children’s – or more accurately, family – albums (the most recent, Körforgás, was released this year), she has collected numerous prizes and yet she still remains the fragile bundle of energy she always was. For her Liszt Academy concert the spotlight turns to the folk musician facet of Ági Szalóki, because she is this, too, and indeed, perhaps this is at her core: “between 1998 and 2002, as singer with the Ökrös band, I was able to experience in many concerts from San Francisco to Beijing how good it is when just two violins, a viola and double bass play together, combined with an Ördöngösfüzes melody: Bárcsak ez az éjszaka Szentgyörgynapig tartan … When I sang this, I always wondered what it would be like if we really could stop the night, the moment or feeling that we enjoyed: watching starlings on the shore of the Balaton, walking through a forest, chatting over a glass of wine or pálinka.” At this concert she recalls her recent trips in Transylvania, with help from the cream of Hungarian folk music life and two excellent dancers.