Szilard Mezei Ensemble

Szilard Mezei Ensemble: Nad / Reed

by Nic Jones
July 19, 2008

Pointless arguments over where the geographical heart of the music lies these days are rendered only more so by music like that on Nad / Reed by the Szilard Mezei Ensemble. Coming as it does from Hungary, and with a burst of creativity, it's definitively human and thus not the product of any national--or indeed continental--sensibility.

That said, it's rife with elements that stem from a national culture even while it's alive with a dignity that transcends it. Thus the ...