Bartok / Concerto Budapest - Hungarian Pictures Concerto For Orchestra (Hybr) [CD]

"... They (Bartók and Kodály) wanted not only to put the Hungarian into the light, not to serve a mere colony of German music history, but to study folk music in all it's manifestations, moreover - Bartók said in 1931 - to serve the fraternization of peoples. Later they explicitly aimed at "a synthesis of East and West".