Prameny / Sources
CD
1. Source (Music by Dalibor Štrunc with lyrics by František Hrubín)
2. Dialogue (Luboš Malina)
3. Satu Peka (Dalibor Štrunc)
4. Echoes of the Good Old Times (Jiří Plocek)
5. An Old-Hungarian Song (Dalibor Štrunc)
6. Na Skřivánku (Dalibor Štrunc)
7. Between the Lines (Luboš Malina)
8. Margarets in Dance (Dalibor Štrunc)
9. Beskydská (Dalibor Štrunc)
10. There Was a Girl Herding Peacock (Slovak traditional folk song)
11. Westward Bound (Dalibor Štrunc)
12. Living Water (Dalibor Štrunc)
Dalibor Štrunc - cimbalom / dulcimer
Guests:
Kateřina Štruncová - vocal
Jiří Jakubec - bassoon
Matěj Kolář - didgeridoo
Luboš Malina - banjo, bodhran
Zdeněk Nádeníček - English horn, oboe
Stanislav Palúch - violin
Jiří Plocek - mandolin
Petr Surý - upright bass
Petr Vavřík - fretless bass
Michal Zpěvák - clarinet, taragot, soprano sax, alto sax
Sources - there are many sources in the music of Dalibor Štrunc and his friends. They have drawn from classical music, Moravian and Irish folk music, and other sources. These all have merged into a new, independent stream.
Cimbalom is the most developed form of multi-string fretless cittern. It has existed in various forms in Europe for at least one thousand years. The cimbalom was used in Bohemia and Moravia in folk music centuries ago. At the end of the 19th century, the cimbalom was very rarely used in Moravia (Valachia), and as a part of live music had stopped being used even before that in Bohemia. Throughout the first half of the 20th century, some larger instruments arrived to Moravia from Hungary. The first cimbalom owners became the musical role models for their followers. After 1945 a significant spread of folklorism was evident, and thus the increasing use of the cimbalom in newly established ensambles. The instrument was not an original small portable cimbalom, but a large, Hungarian one, equipped with a pedal. Similar development could be seen in other countries as well, mainly in Hungary and Romania. The excellent musicians of these countries greatly influenced the Moravian players. Typical Moravian folk musc features were sometimes wiped out. In spite of all this, a strong and unique cimbalom tradition developed in Moravia, which can be proven by the dozens of excellent cimbalom players. A great majority of them are active in the folklore environment.
Recently, since the globe has become connected in world music, there has been a lack of special projects that would feature the cimbalom as a solo instrument, emancipate it and place it above musical genres. The recording of Dalibor Štrunc strives to embody such a project.
Dalibor Štrunc - he grew up in valachia, in Rožnov pod Radhoštěm, in a musical family. He played the cimbalom with the Radhošť ensamble from the age of ten. He studied at the conservatory in Brno and graduated in 1986. In 1988 he became the soloist of the Czechoslovak State Song and Dance Ensamble in Prague. During his Prague years, Štrunc performed not only folk music, but also classical music (the FOK symphony orchestra, the Prague Madrigalists), and recorded for TV and movies (FISYO). In 1992 he returned in Brno to join BROLN (Brno Radio Orchestra of the Folk Instruments) in the position of first cimbalom player. With the changes in radio, Štrunc became a full-time free-lance musician. He has been working regularly with several bands: Javory of Hana and Petr Ulrychovi, BROLN and Cimbal Classic. Cimbal Classic is his own group where Štrunc is a performer and composer of most of the music. The band is positioned above genres and is influenced by folk, modern folk and classical music.
Sólový projekt našeho předního cimbalisty, který jako první u nás posunuje kultivovanou formou cimbál nad hranice doposud zavedených žánrů. Vzdušná a klidná hudba, na níž se podílí celá řada hostů, mj. Luboš Malina na banjo, Stanislav Palúch na housle, Petr Vavřík na baskytaru.
(Gnosis Rec. 2000)
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