Café Continental
Café Continental presents three types of instrumental music from Central Europe. Ruth Welcome, from Germany and Switzerland, plays solos on the zither and performs a mix of folk and contemporary European music, as well as two old British ballads. She is followed by Dick Marta, originally from Hungary, who performs traditional Hungarian music and a Romanian selection on the cimbalom, a European variant of the hammer dulcimer. Welcome's and Marta's selections were recorded in New York cafés.
The second half of the recording features the Wiener (Viennese) Konzerschrammeln performing a type of Viennese music known as schrammelmusik. The Wiener Konzerschrammeln, formed in 1946, consists of four musicians—two violinists, a guitarist (on contra-guitar), and a harmonica player. They were recorded in a café in Vienna.
Brief liner notes provide information on the performers, their music, and their instruments.
Track Listing
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Happy Dancing Rose (Viennese Waltz); Greensleeves | Ruth Welcome | 3:52 | |
102
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Two Little Stars; Deep Down in the Valley (folk, arr. Brahms) | Ruth Welcome | 3:05 | |
103
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Barbara Allen; River Seine | Ruth Welcome | 2:55 | |
104
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September Song | Ruth Welcome | 2:47 | |
105
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Brahms: Hungarian Dance #8 | Dick Marta | 1:58 | |
106
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Roumanian Rhapsody | Dick Marta | 4:31 | |
107
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Traditional Csardas Group | Dick Marta | 5:27 | |
201
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Gruss aus Wien Medley | Anita Ast and the Wiener Konzerschrammeln | 4:16 | |
202
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Wienberln und Zibeben | Anita Ast and the Wiener Konzerschrammeln | 5:06 | |
203
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Im Wiener Dialekt | Anita Ast and the Wiener Konzerschrammeln | 3:46 | |
204
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Schusterbuben Gallopp | Anita Ast and the Wiener Konzerschrammeln | 6:44 | |
205
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Fischertoni Marsch | Anita Ast and the Wiener Konzerschrammeln | 2:57 |