Cafe Continental

Café Continental presents three types of instrumental music from Central Europe. Ruth Welcome, from Germany and Switzerland, plays solos on the zither and performs a mix of folk and contemporary European music, as well as two old British ballads. She is followed by Dick Marta, originally from Hungary, who performs traditional Hungarian music and a Romanian selection on the cimbalom, a European variant of the hammer dulcimer. Welcome's and Marta's selections were recorded in New York cafés.

The second half of the recording features the Wiener (Viennese) Konzerschrammeln performing a type of Viennese music known as schrammelmusik. The Wiener Konzerschrammeln, formed in 1946, consists of four musicians—two violinists, a guitarist (on contra-guitar), and a harmonica player. They were recorded in a café in Vienna.

Brief liner notes provide information on the performers, their music, and their instruments.

Track Listing

101	Happy Dancing Rose / Greensleeves	Ruth Welcome	03:52
102	Two Little Stars / Deep Down in the Valley	Ruth Welcome	03:05
103	Barbara Allen / The River Seine	Ruth Welcome	02:55
104	September Song	Ruth Welcome	02:47
105	Brahms: Hungarian Dance No. 8	Dick Marta	01:58
106	Roumanian Rhapsody	Dick Marta	04:31
107	Traditional Csardas group	Dick Marta	05:27
201	Gruss aus Wien Medley	Anita Ast and the Wiener Konzerschrammeln	04:16
202	Wienberln und Zibiben	Anita Ast and the Wiener Konzerschrammeln	05:06
203	Im Wiener Dialekt	Anita Ast and the Wiener Konzerschrammeln	03:46
204	Schusterbuben Gallopp	Anita Ast and the Wiener Konzerschrammeln	06:44
205	Fischertoni Marsch	Anita Ast and the Wiener Konzerschrammeln	02:57