
The Bottom Line: Just about everything Kocsis did is worth […]
Fans of this still-neglected composer familiar only with the waltz-sequence from this eighty-minute ballet are likely to be disappointed by the full work, not that
This disc is delicious. Ernst von Dohnányi was one of the few 20th century composers with a genuine sense of musical humor. Tante Simona is
Given its 1944/45 date, the Second Symphony that Ernő Dohnányi—a.k.a. Ernst von Dohnányi—wrote, is an arch-conservative, anachronistic, post-Brahmsian work: A behemoth of grand romantic gesture
Ernö Dohnányi’s music slowly has been getting the discographic attention
It’s sad that these pieces aren’t performed more often; even the delicious Variations seems to have fallen by the wayside. Ernö von Dohnányi was a
Here’s yet another recording that never should be out of the catalog, restored to currency thanks to Arkivmusic.com’s “on demand” program. Dohnányi’s Brahmsian First Piano
The opening theme of Ernö Dohnányi’s Violin Concerto No. 1 (1915) sounds strikingly like something out of a Harry Potter film, creating the same kind
In his concertos Erno Dohnányi breathes the same musical air as his compatriots Bartók and Kodály. The Piano Concerto No. 2, with its grandly rhetorical
These performances were recorded by RCA in the ’90s by the famous team of Joanna Nickrenz and William Hoekstra, but never issued. AAM has rescued