Best Orchestral Dances
Slavonic Dances, Op. 46 is a set of eight dances by Antonín Dvořák, composed in 1878 first for piano four hands and soon orchestrated by the composer. Encouraged by the success of Brahms's Hungarian Dances, Dvořák used characteristic rhythms and forms associated with Czech and other Slavic tradition...
The Polovtsian Dances are a sequence of orchestral and choral pieces from Act II of the Russian opera Prince Igor, composed by Alexander Borodin. They were first performed in 1890 as part of the opera's premiere, which was completed posthumously by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and Alexander Glazunov. The...
The Slavonic Dances, Op. 46, are a collection of musical compositions by Czech composer Antonín Dvořák, originally written for piano four hands in 1878. The work draws heavy inspiration from the rhythms and ethnic melodies of Slavic folk traditions, such as the furiant and dumka. Modeled loosely aft...
The "Hungarian Dances" are a set of twenty-one romantic instrumental pieces composed by Johannes Brahms between 1858 and 1869. Originally written for piano four-hands, the works are largely based on traditional Hungarian and Roma (Gypsy) folk themes. Brahms later orchestrated three of the dances him...
