Ernö Dohnányi: Concertino for Harp and Chamber Orchestra; Sextet in C major; Six Pieces for Piano

Here's a splendid if somewhat more than slightly haphazard Dohnányi disc. It couples his late Concertino for harp and chamber orchestra from 1952 ... Show synopsis Here's a splendid if somewhat more than slightly haphazard Dohnányi disc. It couples his late Concertino for harp and chamber orchestra from 1952 with his slightly earlier Six Pieces for piano from 1945 and his much earlier Sextet for clarinet, horn, piano, and string trio from 1935, a more or less arbitrary grouping of the orchestral music, chamber music, and solo piano music whose only common thread is that they are all works by the Hungarian expatriate composer. Likewise, it couples a performance by harpist Sara Cutler with Leon Botstein leading the American Symphony Orchestra from 2001 with a performance by pianist Todd Crow from 2004 and a performance by clarinetist Laura Flax, hornist Jeffrey Lang, pianist Diane Walsh, violinist Erica Kiesewetter, violist Karen Dreyfus, and cellist Eugene Moye from 2003, a more or less random grouping of musicians and recordings whose only common thread is that they were all done at Bard College where Botstein is conductor in residence. In fact, aside from the... Hide synopsis