[ EMI Gemini / 2 CD ]
Release Date: Sunday 1 March 2009
Brahms recommended Dvořák, eight years his junior, to his publisher, Simrock, in 1877 and the following year duly published the first set of Slavonic Dances which they commissioned.
Brahms:
Hungarian Dances, WoO 1 Nos. 1-21 (complete)
Liebeslieder-Walzer, Op. 52
Waltzes (16), Op. 39
Dvorak:
Slavonic Dances Nos. 1-8, Op. 46 Nos. 1-8
Slavonic Dances Nos. 9-16, Op. 72 Nos. 1-8