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Brahms, Dvorak, Reiner
Hungarian Dances / Slavonic Dances
Genres: Dance & Electronic, Classical

Track Listings (14) - Disc #1
1. Hungarian Dances: No. 5 In G Minor
2. Hungarian Dances: No. 6 In D Major
3. Hungarian Dances: No. 7 In A Major
4. Hungarian Dances: No. 12 In D Minor
5. Hungarian Dances: No. 13 In D Major
6. Hungarian Dances: No. 19 In B Minor
7. Hungarian Dances: No. 21 In E Minor
8. Hungarian Dances: No. 1 In G Minor
9. Slavonic Dances: No. 1 In C Major
10. Slavonic Dances: No. 3 In A Flat Major
11. Slavonic Dances: No. 8 In G Minor
12. Slavonic Dances: No. 10 In E Minor
13. Slavonic Dances: No. 9 In B Major
14. Till Eulenspiegel

CD Details

All Artists: Brahms, Dvorak, Reiner, Vienna Po
Title: Hungarian Dances / Slavonic Dances
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 0
Label: Polygram Records
Release Date: 9/17/1996
Genres: Dance & Electronic, Classical
Styles: Chamber Music, Forms & Genres, Theatrical, Incidental & Program Music, Historical Periods, Modern, 20th, & 21st Century, Instruments, Strings
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 028944856828

Synopsis

Amazon.com

Fritz Reiner made very few recordings for London--the most notable being the Verdi Requiem. This disc may seem like a collection of odds and ends, and in some ways it is. But all the performances are wonderful, and the disc really adds up to more than the sum of its parts. Besides, Reiner was probably the great Strauss conductor of his day, and this is the only opportunity we have to hear him in action with one of the greatest European Strauss orchestras. As for the Hungarian and Slavonic Dances, they are top-quality light music, and Reiner invests them with the same care and love that he would give a Beethoven symphony. A classic recording. --David Hurwitz

CD Reviews

MUSIC-MAKING AT ITS BEST

ernest a. dupont | Pembroke, ON Canada | 01/26/2002

(5 out of 5 stars)

"I have the previously released CD of this music by this conductor, on the London Weekend Classics label. This kind of music-making is simply magic. Fritz Reiner, who feels just at ease with the Hungarian Dances as he does with a Dvorak symphony, really puts his heart and mind in the music and gives us the best version of these works I have ever heard. Especially effective is the Hungarian Dance no. 6 in D major - if this music does not make you want to dance, then there is either something wrong with me or the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra."