Dohnányi: Orchestral Works

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The Suite in F sharp minor… is a particularly attractive work, brimful of lovely melodies and imaginative orchestral touches… Domonkos Héja and the youthful Danubia Symphony Orchestra relish... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2006, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 30th Jan 2006
Catalogue No: 2564624092
Label: Warner Classics
Length: 70 minutes

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

Work length31:56

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Danubia Zk., Heja
Danubia Symphony Orchestra
Domonkos Héja

I Andante con variazioni [Andante con moto]

Track length13:23

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II Scherzo [Allegretto vivace]

Track length4:36

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III Romanza [Andante poco moto]

Track length5:42

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IV Rondo [Allegro vivace]

Track length8:15

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Dohnányi: Ruralia hungarica

Work length24:59

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Danubia Zk., Heja
Danubia Symphony Orchestra
Domonkos Héja

No.1 Andante poco moto, rubato

Track length8:44

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No.2 Presto, ma no tanto

Track length3:51

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No.3 Allegro grazioso

Track length2:41

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No.4 Adagio non troppo

Track length7:24

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No.5 Molto vivace

Track length2:19

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Dohnányi: American Rhapsody Op. 47 (1953)

Work length13:45

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Danubia Zk., Heja
Danubia Symphony Orchestra
Domonkos Hejá

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March 2006

The Suite in F sharp minor… is a particularly attractive work, brimful of lovely melodies and imaginative orchestral touches… Domonkos Héja and the youthful Danubia Symphony Orchestra relish its many opportunities for soloistic virtuosity… In Ruralia Hungarica, Dohnányi pursued a more overtly nationalist stance... a feature that is also prevalent in the later American Rhapsody. Once again Héja and his excellent orchestra deliver enthusiastic and expressive performances of both works...

2010

Good to have Dohnányi delivered in bright, local packaging. The substantial Suite, Op 19, revisits Brahmsian vistas, the string-writing especially, and at around the seven-minute mark into the sizeable theme-and-variations first movement there's a vivid premonition of Bartók and Bluebeard's cache of jewels (put together some 10 years later). Clean, incisive, light in texture – Héja's still-young orchestra is all of these and projects a subtly individual personality, at once grainy and slimline, if not yet quite the equal of Iván Fischer's more colourful Budapest Festival band. The Danubia's playing of the Suite's Scherzo (echoes of the Russian late-Romantics) and momentarily Mahlerian finale is quite brilliant, whereas the strings do very nicely in the exotic Romanza slow movement.
The somewhat later suite Ruralia hungarica is less 'earth under the fingernails' (which is what Bartók and Kodály were offering) than peasant life spied from the business lounge. The suite's lyrical centrepiece is the dusky, rhapsodic Adagionon troppo, widely known out of context as a 'Gypsy Andante'. If you don't immediately recognise it, be patient: the big theme sweeps in at around the two-minute mark. The more memorable of the fast movements, pungently played here, is the pentatonic Presto with its coincidental echoes of American-Indian music, while the finale is charmingly childlike in its simplicity.
How different the relatively late and infinitely more complex American Rhapsody, a melange of traditional tunes woven into a contrapuntal tapestry that would have made even Reger green with envy. Good to hear once or twice, especially when played with conviction and just a touch of wistfulness – which is how it's played here. Good sound.

April 2006

Clean incisive, light in texture - Héja's still-young orchestra is all of these and projects a subtly individual personality, at once grainy and slimline… The Danubia's playing of the Suite's Scherzo (echoes of the Russian late-Romantics) and momentarily Mahlerian finale is quite brilliant, whereas the strings do very nicely in the exotic Romanza slow movement.

Dohnányi: Orchestral Works

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