Album review. Click play to listen MAY 2020 → In 1904 Béla Bartók experienced an epiphany when he heard 18-year-old Lidi Dósa singing songs from her Transylvanian village. Between 1908 and 1917 Bartók would go on to record & transcribe over 3,400 peasant folk songs, describing the completion of his research into Romanian folk…

APRIL 2021 → Sunnyside Records releases BLACKSALT, Abraham Burton & Lucian Ban blistering duet concert recorded live at The Baroque Hall in Ban's native Transylvania in 2018. The new recording encapsulates the sympathetic nature of their pairing in a freely played collection of pieces, composed and improvised. JAZZ WEEKLY says, " Burton and pianist Lucian…

 MAY 2022 → Lucian Ban’s mesmerizing new recording of solo piano improvisations, Ways of Disappearing is out on Sunnyside Records. Featured in The Wall Street Journal, album garners glowing reviews in Downbeat, New York City Jazz Record, etc. Recorded in his native Transylvania in the stunning Baroque Hall in Timisoara, in May 2021, in…

MAY 2023 → Nearly ninety years after its opening in Paris at Opera Garnier, Transylvanian expat pianist Lucian Ban and American violist Mat Maneri present a radical re-imagination of George Enescu’s famous Oedipe opera. To reinvent Oedipe for the 21st century, Ban and Maneri streamlined Enescu’s score for a smaller, more flexible ensemble and knew…