Description
Brilliant Classics: Ernő Dohnányi — Complete Music for Cello & Piano (Audio CD)
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Product Details:
- Product Type: Audio CD
- Brand / Label: Brilliant Classics
- Catalog Number: 96225
- UPC: 5028421962252
- Composer: Ernő Dohnányi (1877–1960)
- Performers: Lucio Labella Danzi (cello); Marco Rapetti (piano)
- Genre: Classical / Chamber
- Condition: New, factory sealed
Product Features
- Format: CD
- Discs: 1
- Tracks: 6
- Total time: 58:35
- Sound: DDD
- Recorded: 11–12 July 2020, Checcacci Piano Showroom, Poggibonsi (Florence), Italy
- Manufactured: in the EU
- Includes a world premiere recording (Konzertstück, Op. 12)
Overview
Ernő Dohnányi was the great conservative of early-twentieth-century Hungarian music — where Bartók and Kodály went hunting for folk material to remake the language, Dohnányi held to the Romantic line of Brahms, writing music of warmth, polish and real craftsmanship. This disc gathers everything he wrote for cello and piano in one place.
The centerpiece is the Sonata in B-flat, Op. 8, from 1899 — a four-movement work written when the composer was barely out of his teens, already fluent and assured, closing with a substantial theme and variations. Alongside it sits the Konzertstück in D, Op. 12, here in its world premiere recording in this cello-and-piano form, plus a movement from the folk-flavored Ruralia Hungarica, marked "alla zingaresca."
Cellist Lucio Labella Danzi and pianist Marco Rapetti make a persuasive case for music that has lived too long in the shadow of Dohnányi's more famous countrymen. Recorded in 2020 near Florence, just under an hour of richly Romantic repertoire.
Interesting Facts
- Ernő Dohnányi (1877–1960) was a triple threat — composer, virtuoso pianist and conductor — and for years effectively ran Hungarian musical life as head of the Budapest Academy and the radio.
- He is the grandfather of conductor Christoph von Dohnányi and great-grandfather of actor Justus von Dohnányi.
- The Konzertstück in D, Op. 12, appears here in a world premiere recording.
- "Ruralia Hungarica," Op. 32, draws on Hungarian folk melodies — Dohnányi's closest approach to the folk-inspired path taken by Bartók and Kodály.
- Dohnányi wrote the Cello Sonata, Op. 8, in 1899 while still in his early twenties, already showing the Brahmsian polish that defined his style.
Track Listing
Sonata in B-flat, Op. 8 (1899)
- I. Allegro, ma non troppo — 8:56
- II. Scherzo e Trio, Vivace assai — 5:12
- III. Adagio non troppo — 2:52
- IV. Tema con variazioni — 10:19
Konzertstück in D, Op. 12 (1905) — world premiere recording
- Allegro non troppo – Adagio – Tempo I – Adagio – Tempo I, ma molto più tranquillo — 25:11
Ruralia Hungarica, Op. 32d (1924)
- Andante rubato, alla zingaresca — 5:51
Publishers
Released by Brilliant Classics, catalog 96225. ℗ & © 2021. Manufactured and printed in the EU.
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