Adrienn Miksch, Janos Bandi, Ferenc Szecsodi, Szilvia Elek, István Kassai – Brahms: Hungarian Dances & the Hungarian Tradition (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Adrienn Miksch, Janos Bandi, Ferenc Szecsodi, Szilvia Elek, István Kassai – Brahms: Hungarian Dances & the Hungarian Tradition (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:30:28 minutes | 2,55 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Naxos

Brahms had long been immersed in the folk traditions and spirit of Hungary’s musical repertoire, not least through the famous violinist Ede Reményi, for whom he played as piano accompanist. Brahms employed melodies that he had heard, as well as those based on sheet music, and in this album his Hungarian Dances are presented alongside their source material and variants, as well as some elements that Brahms omitted from his settings. Contextualised in this way, the heroic strength and dynamism, as well as the melancholy of the Dances can be heard as never before.
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István Kassai & György Lázár – Széchényi: Waltzes & Hungarian Marches (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

István Kassai & György Lázár – Széchényi: Waltzes & Hungarian Marches (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:15:47 minutes | 1,14 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Naxos

Count Imre Széchényi of Sárvár-Felsővidék was a highly regarded Austro-Hungarian diplomat and politician who counted Johann Strauss as a lifelong friend, and whose dances were popular and much in demand in his day. Széchényi composed waltzes throughout his creative period, but only a few of these have been preserved. His work was of interest to his contemporaries, and among these premiere recordings is Liszt’s own arrangement of the Ungarischer Marsch. These lively and melodious forgotten gems are brought to life on a 1908 Bechstein piano previously owned by Wagner’s grandson, Wolfgang.

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