Bartok/ Tatrai Quartet - Masters CollectionThe Masters Collection compiles the iconic recordings of some of the most renowned artists of Hungaroton. The album features records which define an uvre, a specific era and which will be an unforgettable experience for all listeners. The focus of this album is the Tatrai Quartet. Founded in 1946 and based in Hungary, the Tatrai Quartet was one of the foremost string quartets in Hungary for the half century following the Second World War. Specializing

which belongs to the Pilgrim Songs in the Book of Psalms and are meant to prepare believers for their meeting with God

drums and trumpet

he can be said to have reinvented the symphony - something that not even Liszt or Wagner had dared to do in the wake of the groundbreaking masterpieces by Beethoven that until then had ranked as the climax and end-point of the genre

A few days into the ordeal

Jimmy Reed was a major innovator in the electric blues pantheon

all splendid examples of Italian sacred music in the transition from Renaissance to Baroque

helping to pave the way for the likes of Patsy Cline in the years that followed

live performances and previously unreleased material

songwriter and more recently a film director

From "Get on Up" to the James Brown vocal sample in "Dolla Bill

which now spans seven decades

three contrasting songs that conjure up exotic moods rather than retelling the stories of the1001 Nights