Artist: David Boldrini, Manila Santini
Title: Johannes Brahms: 21 Hungarian Dances, WoO 1 (For Piano 4 Hands)
Year Of Release: 2018
Label: Da Vinci Classics
Genre: Classical
Quality: FLAC (tracks)
Total Time: 48:04
Total Size: 205 MB


Tracklist:

1. David Boldrini & Manila Santini – 21 Hungarian Dances, WoO 1: No. 1 in G Minor, Allegro molto (02:38)
2. David Boldrini & Manila Santini – 21 Hungarian Dances, WoO 1: No. 2 in D Minor, Allegro non assai (02:55)
3. David Boldrini & Manila Santini – 21 Hungarian Dances, WoO 1: No. 3 in F Major, Allegretto (01:58)
4. David Boldrini & Manila Santini – 21 Hungarian Dances, WoO 1: No. 4 in F Minor, Poco sostenuto (03:38)
5. David Boldrini & Manila Santini – 21 Hungarian Dances, WoO 1: No. 5 in F-Sharp Minor, Allegro (02:17)
6. David Boldrini & Manila Santini – 21 Hungarian Dances, WoO 1: No. 6 in D-Flat Major, Vivace (03:15)
7. David Boldrini & Manila Santini – 21 Hungarian Dances, WoO 1: No. 7 in F Major, Allegretto (01:52)
8. David Boldrini & Manila Santini – 21 Hungarian Dances, WoO 1: No. 8 in A Minor, Presto (02:28)
9. David Boldrini & Manila Santini – 21 Hungarian Dances, WoO 1: No. 9 in E Minor, Allegro non troppo (02:10)
10. David Boldrini & Manila Santini – 21 Hungarian Dances, WoO 1: No. 10 in E Major, Presto (01:42)
11. David Boldrini & Manila Santini – 21 Hungarian Dances, WoO 1: No. 11 in D Minor, Poco andante (03:00)
12. David Boldrini & Manila Santini – 21 Hungarian Dances, WoO 1: No. 12 in D Minor, Presto (02:04)
13. David Boldrini & Manila Santini – 21 Hungarian Dances, WoO 1: No. 13 in D Major, Andantino grazioso (01:27)
14. David Boldrini & Manila Santini – 21 Hungarian Dances, WoO 1: No. 14 in D Minor, Un poco andante (01:38)
15. David Boldrini & Manila Santini – 21 Hungarian Dances, WoO 1: No. 15 in B-Flat Major, Allegretto grazioso (02:21)
16. David Boldrini & Manila Santini – 21 Hungarian Dances, WoO 1: No. 16 in F Minor, Con moto (02:23)
17. David Boldrini & Manila Santini – 21 Hungarian Dances, WoO 1: No. 17 in F-Sharp Minor, Andantino (03:03)
18. David Boldrini & Manila Santini – 21 Hungarian Dances, WoO 1: No. 18 in D Major, Molto vivace (01:22)
19. David Boldrini & Manila Santini – 21 Hungarian Dances, WoO 1: No. 19 in B Minor, Allegretto (02:07)
20. David Boldrini & Manila Santini – 21 Hungarian Dances, WoO 1: No. 20 in E Minor, Poco allegretto (02:18)
21. David Boldrini & Manila Santini – 21 Hungarian Dances, WoO 1: No. 21 in E Minor, Vivace (01:17)

The Twenty-one Hungarian Dances in four books, for piano four hands, attracted enormous attention since their first publication under Simrock. They are realized upon two musical inclinations of the 19th century: dance-style pieces written for piano four-hands and compositions inspired by Europe’s assorted cultures. Good examples from other authors could be Haydn’s and Beethoven’s Schottische Lieder, Schubert’s unique Divertissement à l’hongroise, the Slavonic Dances by Dvořák, and the Norwegian Dances by Grieg. Melodies of the Roma people hold a special place in this kind of composition -if not specifically Hungarian, at least strongly identified with that nation-, and contributed significantly to cultures in Budapest, Prague, and Vienna. The European “Gypsy mode” in instrumental music is nothing more than a blending of Hungarian musical gestures and Gypsy performing style. Brahms, as well as Liszt, paved the way for a new romantic kind of pseudo-Gypsy music with the substantial difference that the latter was a Hungarian born composer that absorbed more dramatically the folk music of his motherland.