British pianist Martin Roscoe has set out to revive the piano music of Ernö Dohnányi, largely overshadowed by Bartók, with a series of recordings of his complete piano music for Hyperion. They are all beautifully and idiomatically recorded at Hyperion's favored recital venue, Potton Hall. This third volume is something of a mixed bag, but is worth the price of admission for the opening work, Ruralia hungarica, Op. 32a. These short pieces, composed in 1923 and 1924, are based on Hungarian folk songs collected and published ...
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British pianist Martin Roscoe has set out to revive the piano music of Ernö Dohnányi, largely overshadowed by Bartók, with a series of recordings of his complete piano music for Hyperion. They are all beautifully and idiomatically recorded at Hyperion's favored recital venue, Potton Hall. This third volume is something of a mixed bag, but is worth the price of admission for the opening work, Ruralia hungarica, Op. 32a. These short pieces, composed in 1923 and 1924, are based on Hungarian folk songs collected and published by Bartók and Kodály, and it's fascinating to hear this material inflected through a voice different from those of the two better-known composers. Dohnányi is more conservative tonally, but he does not smooth out the fascinating rhythms of these tunes. Even better is the imaginative virtuoso treatment of the source material, both here and in the Variations on a Hungarian folksong, Op. 29, with its unique mix of analysis of the tune and big performance fireworks. The virtuoso tradition...
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