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Release Date: 24-03-1999
Label: Jaro Medien
Catalog Number: JARO4221-2
Barcode: 4006180422126
Musical Style: World
Track Listing:
| Disc 1 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | After Sunset [06:37] | 6 | Danube Legend [06:16] |
| 2 | Father's Song [04:32] | 7 | Crying Widow [05:13] |
| 3 | Crazy Dance Of The North [04:08] | 8 | Macedonian Dance [03:37] |
| 4 | The King's Request [06:01] | 9 | Sad farewell [06:27] |
| 5 | Celebration Dance [02:21] | 10 | Free Improvisation [05:49] |
Biography:
Georgi Petrov was born on the 13th of May 1962 in the small village of Sinagovstl, in north west Bulgaria near the Danube river, not far from the borders of Romania and Serbia. The region is named after the town of Vidin, and it is an area where three countries' folk cultures have intermingled to some extent, a fact that is significant in Georgi's musical development. His Father Iordan is a famous musician in the region, being a master of all the traditional wind instruments (kaval, and many different kinds of duduk). However, probably the first tunes Petrov heard and learned were the songs his mother sang him as a child, from her native Pirin region in Macedonia. With his kind of background, it was only natural that Georgi Petrov should develop an interest in music from a very early age, shown by the fact that his first public performance was at the age of seven in the famous Bulgarian music festival in Koprivshitsa, where he won a gold medal. This set a pattern; Petrov grew older, he continued to win the top prize in the annual national Folklore Competitions for every age group on his chosen instrument, the gadulka (a bowed stringed instrument native to Bulgaria).
From the age of thirteen to eighteen he studied at the Pleven Musical School, and then spent a further five years specialising in folk instruments at the Bulgarian Academy for Folklore in Plovdiv. During this period Georgi Petrov started to compose his own music, and began recording with Plovdiv radio and the world famous Radio Sofia National Folklore Orchestra. In 1988 he won the Adjudicator's Special Award in the International Radio Competition in Bratislava, and by his mid-twenties was regarded as one of the foremost gadulka players in the country.
