Valentina Toth

Valentina Tóth – Ernő Dohnányi: Ruralia Hungarica / Humoresken in Form Einer Suite (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:03:10 minutes | 2,04 GB | Genre: Classical
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As a composer, Dohnányi, whose oeuvre mainly consists of piano music, deep in his heart always remained a musician grounded in nineteenth-century Romanticism.

Dohnányi 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.

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