Name: Piano Romanticism
Start: 2025-06-15T18:00:00
Location: Hessischer Rundfunk

Paul Rivinius

Nadine Blumenstein

Valentin Scharff

Akemi Mercer-Niewöhner

Dirk Niewöhner

Kristian Katzenberger

Jochen Tschabrun

Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra

Chamber music by a Hungarian composer who remains underappreciated to this day. Unlike Bartók and Kodály, Dohnányi remained committed to Romanticism throughout his life. His sonorous Piano Quintet and Sextet captivate with their inventiveness. They are a discovery, as is the uniquely scored Trio by the German Romantic composer Reinecke. Dohnányi was a pianist, conductor, and composer, and in his youth, as a celebrated soloist, he was compared to Franz Liszt. He therefore had a particularly fortunate touch when it came to piano chamber music, as can be experienced in this concert. As a composer, Dohnányi saw himself firmly in the tradition of Brahms. His late Sextet, however, transcends the world of Brahms and simultaneously revels in the broad stylistic panorama of the 1930s.