Twenty-One Hungarian Dances

Album by Johannes Brahms & London Symphony Orchestra & Neeme Järvi

Twenty-One Hungarian Dances is a set of 21 short dance pieces by Johannes Brahms, composed for piano four hands in 1869. Drawing on Hungarian and Romani musical models and the verbunkos tradition, the dances feature lively rhythms, shifting metres and folk-like melodies, and they reflect Brahms's engagement with national musical idioms during his early career and the broader 19th-century interest in folk-inspired concert music.
First released: 1990

Tracklist

  1. 1.
    Hungarian Dances: No. 1 in G minor
    3:07
  2. 2.
    Hungarian Dances: No. 2 in D minor
    3:13
  3. 3.
    Hungarian Dances: No. 3 in F major
    2:22
  4. 4.
    Hungarian Dances: No. 4 in F sharp minor
    5:17
  5. 5.
    Hungarian Dances: No. 5 in G minor
    2:53
  6. 6.
    Hungarian Dances: No. 6 in D major
    4:14
  7. 7.
    Hungarian Dances: No. 7 in F major
    2:10
  8. 8.
    Hungarian Dances: No. 8 in A minor
    2:53
  9. 9.
    Hungarian Dances: No. 9 in E minor
    2:13
  10. 10.
    Hungarian Dances: No. 10 in F major
    1:53
  11. 11.
    Hungarian Dances: No. 11 in D minor
    2:51
  12. 12.
    Hungarian Dances: No. 12 in D minor
    2:46
  13. 13.
    Hungarian Dances: No. 13 in D major
    1:32
  14. 14.
    Hungarian Dances: No. 14 in D minor
    1:36
  15. 15.
    Hungarian Dances: No. 15 in B flat major
    3:07
  16. 16.
    Hungarian Dances: No. 16 in F minor
    2:23
  17. 17.
    Hungarian Dances: No. 17 in F sharp minor
    3:30
  18. 18.
    Hungarian Dances: No. 18 in D major
    1:38
  19. 19.
    Hungarian Dances: No. 19 in B minor
    2:21
  20. 20.
    Hungarian Dances: No. 20 in E minor
    3:02
  21. 21.
    Hungarian Dances: No. 21 in E minor
    1:31

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