This release from Hungaroton brings two rarely recorded works together – Dohnányi’s The Veil of Pierrette and Kókai’s Verbunkos Suite.

Dohnányi as a composer of stage works made his debut during his Berlin stay, with the pantomime The Veil of Pierrette composed in 1908-1909.

First performed in Dresden in 1910 and received enthusiastic critical acclaim. Rezső Kókai studied composition with Hans Koessler and piano with Professor Emánuel Hegyi at the Budapest Academy of Music. Written in 1950, the four-movement Verbunkos Suite draws on the typical melodic and rhythmic treasury of nineteenth-century Hungarian national music.