Chester Englander is a big name in a small world: he is playing the cimbalom, a jumbo hammered dulcimer that resembles an inside-out piano, in John Adams’s “Antony and Cleopatra” at the Met.

For the Romanian cimbalom virtuoso Nicolae Feraru, who has lived in Chicago since 1993, life changed last September. That’s when he traveled to Washington, D.C., to receive his adopted countr… ...

Appraisal: American Cimbalom, ca. 1890Adjust the colors to reduce glare and give your eyes a break.

Jazz album: “Mission Cimbalom” by Marius Preda, released in 2017 on Universal Romania. Explore the largest collection of jazz recordings @ All About Jazz ...

Hungarian cimbalom player Kálmán Balogh offers a version of Central European Gypsy music that's built for speed. Balogh's band has a knack for jazz improvisatio ...

Union Station has long been a repository of emotional memory and civic history. Many generations of displaced Easterners got off the train there.

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Acclaimed cimbalom master Alex Udvary joins the orchestra for Kodaly’s Háry János Suite. An enthralling swashbuckling tale of a Hungarian folk hero, this piece is celebrated for its evocative ...

Marius Preda: Mission Cimbalom album review by Geannine Reid, published on September 7, 2017. Find thousands jazz reviews at All About Jazz!