Dvorak Slavonic Dances - Brahms Hungarian Dances - Reiner Vienna Philharmonic (Redux)
Recorded in 1960 during Reiner’s European collaborations, these performances capture the Vienna Philharmonic at a peak of stylistic authority in Austro-Hungarian repertoire. They offer an alternative perspective to Reiner’s more famous Chicago Symphony recordings: less overtly dramatic, perhaps, but richly idiomatic and deeply rooted in the cultural soil of the music. As documents, they preserve a moment when national style, conductorly rigor, and orchestral identity aligned with exceptional coherence.
The Reiner–Vienna Philharmonic recordings of Dvořák’s Slavonic Dances and Brahms’s Hungarian Dances stand as eloquent interpretations of music born from folk inspiration and transformed by Romantic imagination. They illuminate the shared lineage of the two composers while honoring their differences: Brahms the classicist reshaping inherited material, and Dvořák the melodist creating new music that sounds timelessly traditional. Through Reiner’s disciplined leadership and Vienna’s distinctive sound, these dances emerge not merely as colorful miniatures but as finely wrought orchestral statements.
Artist(s): Conductor – Fritz Reiner
Orchestra – The Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Recording Info: Producer: Erik Smith
Engineer: James Brown
Recorded June 1960 at Sofiensaal, Vienna
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Dvořák Slavonic Dances
1 No. 1 In C Major, Opus 46 4:22
2 No. 3 In A Flat Major, Opus 46 4:34
3 No. 8 In G Minor, Opus 46 4:33
4 No. 2 In E Minor, Opus 72 7:22
5 No. 1 In B Major, Opus 72 4:30
Brahms Hungarian Dances
6 No. 5 In G Minor 2:32
7 No. 6 In D Minor 3:56
8 No. 7 In A Major 2:14
9 No. 12 In D Minor 2:24
10 No. 13 In D Major 2:04
11 No. 19 In B Minor 1:48
12 No. 21 In E Minor 1:15
13 No. 1 In G Minor 3:27
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