Lucian Ban, John Surman and Mat Maneri bring a fresh treatment — and musical chemistry — to the bare-bones folk transcriptions of the 20th-century Hungarian composer Béla Bartók. This is FRESH AIR.

It's been six years since Mat Maneri last appeared on ECM, collaborating with singer Robin Williamson on the British traditionalist's exploratory The Iron Stone (2007); even longer since the violist ...

Note: Stacked potatoes is a substantial and filling regional dish from Transylvania. Ask 10 different Transylvanian cooks to make it and you’ll probably end up with 10 slightly different versions.

Classical composer Bela Bartok was fascinated by folk melodies he heard throughout his native Transylvania at the close of the 19th century / beginning of the 20th century. Similar to when American ...

Its head looks like a turkey's, its body resembles a chicken's -- now scientists can explain why one of the poultry world's most curious specimens has developed such a distinctive look. The ...

You don’t have to visit Dracula’s castle to get a taste of Transylvania this Halloween. A 200-year-old family recipe for a popular pastry from the spooky region of Romania is being served up by a ...

Discover the intriguing genetic change in the Transylvanian naked neck chicken that results in its featherless neck and unique appearance. – you can understand how it got its name, and why it used to ...