L'EBLOUISSANT VIRTUOSE DU CYMBALUM
THE OUTSTANDING VIRTUOSO ON THE CYMBALUM
TONI IORDACHE
Orchestre Gheorghe Zamfir
Another excellent album released by that French label Déesse under Electrecord licence. T. Iordache (1942-1988) was and is perhaps still considered as the king of cymbalum players. From Romani extraction he came from Southern Rumania near Bucarest and the tunes chosen for this album show that but he used to play tunes from the whole country as it is the mark of any modern Rumanian folk musician. He worked a lot with G. Zamfir. As a virtuoso he was able to hit his cymbalum 25 times per seconds, play complex but well built solos or develop two melodic lines at,the same time.
The text in French at the back gives some information on the instrument and Iordache.
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