Dohnányi: Ruralia Hungarica & Humoresken in Form Einer Suite

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Release Date: 19th Oct 2018
Catalogue No: CC72775
Label: Challenge Classics
Length: 63 minutes

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Dohnányi: Ruralia hungarica, Op. 32a

Work length29:55

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Valentina Tóth

I. Allegretto, molto tenero

Track length2:13

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II. Presto, ma non tanto

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III. Andante poco moto, rubato

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IV. Vivace

Track length3:22

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V. Allegro grazioso

Track length2:06

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VI. Adagio non troppo

Track length7:41

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VII. Molto vivace

Track length2:21

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Dohnányi: 5 Humoresken Op. 17

Work length26:31

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I. Marsch. Allegro moderato

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II. Toccata. Allegro molto

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III. Pavane mit Variationen. Allegro, quasi Andante

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IV. Pastorale. Andante con moto

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V. Introduction und Fuge. Allegro

Track length6:32

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Dohnányi: Pastorale

Work length6:37

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Valentina Tóth

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Bartok, Kodaly and Erno Dohnanyi (who often used his German nameErnst von Dohnanyi) are the three great composers of twentieth-century Hungary. Dohnanyi’s piano music is both rooted in late Romanticism and is especially connected to Brahms and with Hungarian folk music. After a critically acclaimed disc devoted to Bartok and Kodaly, Valentina Toth performs works by the last composer of the great Hungarian triad. Valentina Toth remarks: “Although they were not musically trained, my parents taught me to love Bartok and Kodaly. I treasured their music from the time I was young, and only became acquainted with Dohnanyi’s work much later, when I came in contact with it by accident. It was romantic, virtuoso and incredibly well written for the instrument. What more can you ask as a concert pianist? And although he may only seem rather less distinctly Hungarian than Bartok, many aspects of his country are reflected in his work. I remember when I was working on the Ruralia hungarica, my father recognised many of the melodies

from the songs he had learned as a boy.” As a composer, Dohnanyi, whose oeuvre mainly consists of piano music, deep in his heart always remained a musician grounded in nineteenth-century Romanticism. Dohnanyi wrote Ruralia hungarica in 1923 and gave it a real Hungarian touch by including a wide range of folk melodies in all movements. The Humoresken Op. 17 from 1907 date from when he taught in Berlin. They are basically romantic in nature and now and then reminiscent of Brahms’s piano music. As the name suggests, these are more or less light-hearted character pieces, in which he draws on musical forms from the eighteenth century. ”It is beautiful how Valentina Toth makes great art from this close to folk music leaning miniatures”. - Klara Radio

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Dohnányi: Ruralia Hungarica & Humoresken in Form Einer Suite

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