CIOCARLIA

Created on 30/05/2008
Latest update on 17/11/2023

Artist: Anghelus Dinicu
Author: Ciprian Porumbescu
Year: 1880s

Romanian for The Lark and that's exactly what it sounds like. Hals und Bein-breaking violin piece.

Covers:

1901:

George Enescu [at the end of his first Romanian Rhapsody]

1920s:

Grigoras Dinicu [the author's grandson for Decca; see also: Hora Staccato]

1930s:

Fritz Kreisler

1971:

Gheorghe Zamfir

1987:

Phoenix [Romanian rock band as The Lark; dictatorship forced them to choose material in their own backyard exclusively, which they did: sounds like the Iron Curtain equivalent of Dave Edmunds' Sabre Dance; they migrated to Germany where they operate as Transsylvania Phoenix]

1990:

Sandor Deki Lakatos

1998:

Fanfare Ciocarlia

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