Lucian Ban & Mat Maneri – Transylvanian Folk Songs Re-Imagined

World Music Institute proudly present pianist Lucian Ban and violist Mat Maneri, who use improvisationto reimagine Béla Bartók’s iconic field recordings of folk songs from Transylvania. Drawing from their 2o2o NPR Album Of the Year Transylvanian Folk Songs (Sunnyside Records) – featuring legendary reeds-man John Surman – and their new ECM duo release Transylvanian Dance, the duo will use the unique acoustic possibilities of National Sawdust’s Meyer Sound Spatial Sound system to bring century-old songs back to life using live performance, audio from the original Edison wax cylinder recordings, rare handwritten manuscripts and photographs taken by Bartók himself during his field trips.