Ruralia hungarica Op 32a
Variations on a Hungarian Folksong Op 29
Three Pieces Op 23
Gavotte and Musette in B flat
Naila Waltz
Schatzwalzer Op 418
Du und Du Op 367

The penultimate volume in Hyperion’s four-part survey of the complete solo piano music of Erno” Dohnányi focuses on music from the period when the composer’s pre-eminent position was being assured. The titles of the largest works here, Ruralia hungarica and the Variations on a Hungarian Folksong, mask in their nationalistic ostentation the skill of a true master of piano composition. Martin Roscoe inhabits the world of Dohnányi’s music like no other appraisals of the earlier volumes attest to this and this new recording is a joy.