It seems that last year a Romanian newspaper began releasing limited edition CDs of great recordings of Romanian music - including a lot of excellent lautar material - as a free give away with editions of its paper. One of these CDs was the 1957 recordings made of Alexandru Cercel by Romanian ethnomuscologist Constantine Brailou. Cercel (1883-1970) was one of the last great singers of the old lautar traditon in the Arges region, and on these sessions he was accompanied by his long time cobza player Ion Niţoi. 

Artist: Alexandru Cercel                                                       Album:  Muzica De Colectie Vol13
Genre: Lautaresca veche - old gypsymusic from romania
Compilation published by Intercont Music, Romania

VBRkbps / 44.1kHz / Joint-Stereo
64:31 min
52,6 MB

01.vara vara primavara                                       [04:40]            
02.braul pe sase de la leresti                               [01:10]            
03.cand toca la radu voda                                    [03:13]           
04.fir-ar ceasu-afurisit                                     [02:25]           
05.lie lie ciocarlie                                         [03:43]           
06.sarba batraneasca                                         [03:56]            
07.pe vale leano pe vale                                     [02:26]            
08.de ce doamne nu muream                                    [02:05]             
09.pasare galbena-n cioc                                     [03:33]           
10.hora mare batraneasca                                     [04:26]             
11.d-aoleo baba ileana                                       [02:48]             
12.colo-n vale-ntr-o valcea                                  [03:11]             
13.chira chiralina                                           [10:41]             
14.ungureasca batraneasca                                    [03:36]            
15.cine are dor pe lunca                                     [06:15]         
16.ce vii bade tarzior                                       [03:55]         
17.ce cati mandra pe muscel                                  [02:28]