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Apart from his most famous piece – his Variations on a Nursery Song of 1914 – Dohnányi is better known for who he was than for his music. His reputation as a fine pianist, and as a voice for conservative values, ignores his advocacy on behalf of younger Hungarian contemporaries including Kodály and Bartók, and his own considerable achievements as a composer. And they were considerable: this album is a first-class journey back to a gilded age of chamber music, when the harmonies
were as rich as a dessert by Escoffier and the language as...