Ernst von Dohnányi - Sextet Op. 37 (1935)

Ernst von Dohnányi (Hungarian: Dohnányi Ernő 27 July 1877 – 9 February 1960) was a Hungarian composer, pianist and conductor. He used a German form of his name on most of his published compositions.

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Sextet in C major, Op. 37 for Clarinet, Horn, Violin, Viola, Violoncello and Piano (1935)

1. Allegro appassionato (0:00)
2. Intermezzo: Adagio - Alla marcia quasi l'istesso tempo, ma un poco piu animato - Tempo I (11:16)
3. Allegro con sentimento (17:12)
4. Allegro vivace, giocoso (23:56)

Lucy Gould, violin; David Adams, viola; Alice Neary; cello; Alec Frank-Gemmill, horn; Robert Plane, clarinet and Benjamin Firth, piano

Details by Veronika Kusz:
The four-movement sextet, Op 37, is complex: formally, technically and in its instrumentation. As a reviewer of the 1935 first performance aptly put it: ‘Playing the music is so vital and so inseparable from its elements that it cannot be divided into separate formal and aesthetic analyses. Form and content are inseparable. If one focuses only on the form, one comes across the content and if one looks for the intellectual content, one can find it in the clever forms.’ We can agree with the reviewer on another point, too: the piece becomes more fascinating as the movements progress. The third movement, a theme and variations, provides the same combination of vast musical variation and small-scale concision as the corresponding movement in the serenade. The reviewer writes: ‘For every term he has at least twice as many synonyms as others do … this is where his superior mastery of variation originates from.’ Having reached its climax at the furthest limits of variation from the theme, the music plunges attacca into the breathless final movement. A passionate new theme in the piano gives truly unstoppable momentum towards the conclusion, a fitting finale which maintains Dohnányi’s characteristic humour to the last.

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