Dohnányi: The Veil of Pierrette and other works

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Dohnányi's penchant for quality musical entertainment bore popular fruit with his perennially fresh Variations on a Nursery Theme.
Howard Shelley's performance is a model of wit and style, blending... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

Release Date: 1st May 1999
Catalogue No: CHAN9733
Label: Chandos
Series: Dohnányi: Orchestral Works
Length: 69 minutes

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Dohnányi: Suite for Orchestra Op. 19 (1908-09)

Work length28:48

$5.85

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Matthias Bamert, BBC Philharmonic

I. Andante con variazioni

Track length11:04

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II. Scherzo. Allegretto vivace

Track length4:28

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III. Romanza. Andante poco moto

Track length5:53

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IV. Rondo. Allegro vivace

Track length7:23

$1.60

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Dohnányi: Variations on a Nursery Tune, Op. 25

Work length24:33

$13.65

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Matthias Bamert, BBC Philharmonic, Howard Shelley

Introduzione. Maestoso

Track length4:47

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Variazione I. Poco più mosso

Track length0:34

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Variazione II. Risoluto

Track length0:31

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Variazione III.

Track length1:39

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Variazione IV. Molto meno mosso

Track length1:05

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Variazione V. Più mosso

Track length1:00

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Variazione VI. Ancora più mosso

Track length0:41

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Variazione VII. Walzer. Tempo giusto

Track length2:17

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Variazione VIII. Alla marcia. Allegro moderato

Track length1:25

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Variazione IX. Presto

Track length1:54

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Variazione X. Passacaglia. Adagio non troppo

Track length3:48

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Variazione XI. Choral. Maestoso

Track length1:33

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Finale. Fugato. Allegro vivace

Track length3:19

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Dohnányi: The Veil of Pierrette, Op. 18

Work length16:24

$4.20

$5.20

Matthias Bamert, BBC Philharmonic

I. Pierrot's Love-lament

Track length4:55

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II. Waltz-rondo

Track length2:43

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III. Merry Funeral March

Track length2:49

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IV. Wedding Waltz

Track length5:57

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2010

Dohnányi's penchant for quality musical entertainment bore popular fruit with his perennially fresh Variations on a Nursery Theme.
Howard Shelley's performance is a model of wit and style, blending in with the orchestra whenever the moment seems right and employing an ideal brand of rubato. Bamert's conducting is properly portentous in the Introduction and charming elsewhere, whether in the musicbox delights of the fifth variation, the animated bustle of the sixth or the seventh's novel scoring (plenty for the bassoons and bass drum).
Kocsis and Fischer's is still marginally the best version overall, but Shelley and Bamert are no less musical.
Lovely, too, is the F sharp minor Suite, especially the opening Andante con variazioni which seems to straddle the worlds of Dvorák and Elgar (try the serene string choirs from 9'35").
The stamping Scherzo brings to mind the Scherzo from Bruckner's Ninth Symphony, and the tuneful Rondo finale has a striking resemblance to a key passage in the Rondo-burleske in Mahler's Ninth.
Also included is the very first recording of TheVeil of Pierrette, four scenes from a mimed entertainment dating from 1908-9. The best movement is the exuberant 'Wedding Waltz' (track 21), rumbustious music, carefree and beautifully scored. Chandos has come up with a dazzlingly realistic recording. A peach of a disc.

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