Ferenc Snetberger

"In Concert" is Ferenc Snétberger’s first recording for ECM and a coming full circle for the Hungarian guitarist. It is drawn from a live performance at Budapest’s Franz Liszt Academy of Music, where he once had formative experiences as a young listener: “I heard Bach and it changed my life.” When Snétberger first encountered Johann Sebastian Bach, he was already steeped in jazz. In his richly musical Roma household his father and two brothers also played guitar and the records of John Coltrane, Charlie Parker, Jim Hall and especially Django Reinhardt were a constant. “I started with jazz, and then the influence of classical music became very strong for me.”

PERSONNEL:

FERENC SNÉTBERGER, guitar

Recorded December 14, 2013 at Liszt Academy, Grand Hall, Budapest

TRACKS:

01. Budapest – Part I
02. Budapest – Part II
03. Budapest – Part III
04. Budapest – Part IV
05. Budapest – Part V
06. Budapest – Part VI
07. Budapest – Part VII
08. Budapest – Part VIII
09. Somewhere Over The Rainbow