FOLKWAYS RECORDS

The mountain dulcimer is more accurately described as a fretted zither. Performing the songs of traditional mountain folk and contemporary urban musicians, as well as composing his own, Kevin Roth...

Wolfgang Roth learned these early German songs during the 1920s while participating in a German Youth movement which "championed ideas of brotherhood and peace." These are protest songs from the...

Royal Highland Regiment The Black Watch And Other Pipe And Drum Tunes CD1. U.S. Army Drum and Pipes 2. The Black Watch 3. The Black Watch (Continued) 4. Pipe and Drum Tunes 5. Bagpipe Tunes 6. Pipe...

Ruth Rubin (1906 - 2000), a preeminent authority on Yiddish folk song, was successful as an author, concert singer, and folk song collector, with four albums in the Folkways catalogue. On this album,...

Ruth Rubin (1906 - 2000), a preeminent authority on Yiddish folk song, was successful as an author, concert singer, and folk song collector, with four albums in the Folkways catalogue. Although she...

Ruth Rubin (1906 - 2000), a preeminent authority on Yiddish folk song, was successful as an author, concert singer, and folk song collector, with four albums in the Folkways catalogue. Although she...

In his introduction to Rumanian Songs and Dances, noted folklorist A. L. Lloyd writes: "This record introduces what is perhaps the most remarkably complete folk music tradition in Europe-the folk...

Taken from unreleased recordings, previous Folkways releases, and early blues recordings, this two-disc set offers an introduction to the vocal styles, ornamentation, and instrumentation of this...

Recorded in China and Released in 1960 this opera tells the compelling tale of the defense of a city left vulnerable by a disobedient general. Both tragic and triumphant, this opera is an excellent...

Recorded by V. P. & R. G. Wasson in Huautla de Jimenez, in the Mazatec Mountains in the northern corner of the State of Oaxaca, July 21, 1956. Updated liner notes include complete lyric...

Henry Cowell's Complete Works for Violin and Piano features some of the avant-garde American composer's lesser known pieces. These works, written between 1924 and 1958, highlight his experiments with...

Produced and recorded by Paul Jean Provost and Alan R. Sandstorm Ritual music of the Nahua recorded in the Huasteca region of Veracruz.1. Xochipitsauak 2. Sacred Music: Entering House / Setting the...