Robert Plane
Impressions of Hungary
- Type CD
- Label Champs Hill
- UPC 5060212591371
- Catalog number CHRCD 132
- Release date 06 October 2017
About the album
We are so used to the gritty and astringent style of Béla Bartók (1881–1945) that it is often overlooked that he started from a musical and aesthetic background very similar to that of his apparent polar opposite, the precociously gifted but ’’ conventional Erno Dohnányi (1877–1960). Indeed, the two attended the same Catholic grammar school in Pozsony (now Bratislava in Slovakia), Dohnányi just four years ahead of Bartók, and both pupils played the organ at the church attached to the school. Bartók was very conscious of the early and spectacular success enjoyed by Dohnányi, whose piano quintet, written while still a student at the Budapest Academy of Music, so impressed Brahms that the German composer helped arrange for its premiere in Vienna; after graduating, Dohnányi became almost instantly an international success, performing Beethoven’s Fourth Piano Concerto in London’s Queen’s Hall under the baton of Hans Richter. Bartók hoped to emulate this success, and while in his teens composed several Brahms- influenced works including a piano quintet written just two years after Dohnányi’s. He also greatly admired Dohnányi’s piano playing, and took lessons with him; their relationship was sufficiently cordial for Dohnányi to conduct several of Bartók’s early works.
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11Contrasts i Verbunkos ?Recruiting Dance? Moderato ben ritmato
05:41 -
12Contrasts ii Piheno ?Relaxation?: Lento
04:44 -
13Contrasts iv Sebes ?Fast Dance?: Allegro vivace
07:05 -
14Sonatina for Solo Clarinet i Tema con variazioni
06:33 -
15Sonatina for Solo Clarinet ii Vivo e giocoso
03:40 -
16Chamber Folk Music
11:27 -
17Hommage A R. SCH. Op. 15d i Vivo
00:39 -
18Hommage A R. SCH. Op. 15d ii Molto Sempice, Piano e legato
00:34 -
19Hommage A R. SCH. Op. 15d iii Feroce, Agitato
00:34 -
110Hommage A R. SCH. Op. 15d iv Calmo, Scorrevole
00:23 -
111Hommage A R. SCH. Op. 15d v Presto
00:46 -
112Hommage A R. SCH. Op. 15d vi Adagio, Poco Andante
06:27 -
113Two Movements i Busulo Juhasz (Woeful Shepherd)
02:06 -
114Two Movements ii Csurdongolo (Barn Dance)
02:57 -
115Sextet in C Major Op. 37 i Allegro appassionato
11:10 -
116Sextet in C Major Op. 37 ii Intermezzo (Adagio)
05:55 -
117Sextet in C Major Op. 37 iii Allegro con sentimento ? presto, quasi l?istesso tempo ? meno mosso
06:44 -
118Sextet in C Major Op. 37 iv Finale: Allegro vivace ? giocoso
05:40