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Peter Breiner: Slovak Dances

Slovak Philharmonic, Peter Breiner

Peter Breiner: Slovak Dances
All of the music is inventive and fun to listen to. It is all firmly tonal and many of the pieces are upbeat and energetic, save for a handful of statelier dances that provide a nice respite...

Peter Breiner: Slovak Dances

Slovak Philharmonic, Peter Breiner

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All of the music is inventive and fun to listen to. It is all firmly tonal and many of the pieces are upbeat and energetic, save for a handful of statelier dances that provide a nice respite...

About

Peter Breiner is one of the world’s most performed composer/arrangers, with a boundless musicality that has led him to create fusions of music from a variety of genres. Drawing on traditions established by Brahms and Dvorák and showcasing leading folk music soloists, his Slovak Dances are an exuberant and kaleidoscopic monument rooted in Slovak musical folklore. It comprises 16 symphonic fantasias on songs that evoke varying emotions with an autobiographical element that follows Breiner’s life from his origins in Humenné and Košice to New York. Peter Brenier boasts over 200 albums released and multiple streams and downloads. Known as a conductor, composer, pianist and arranger, he has conducted, often doubling as a pianist, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the Bournemouth, Jerusalem, New Zealand, Moscow and Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestras, the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, the Slovak Philharmonic and the Orchestre National de France, to mention just a few. His compositions and arrangements have been played in concerts and broadcast worldwide, and some of the most prestigious ballet companies have used his music in numerous performances.

Contents and tracklist

No. 1, The Field of Zalužice
Track length5:35
No. 2, They Will Get Me Married
Track length8:17
No. 3, You Enchanting Girl, You...
Track length4:50
No. 4, The Little Church of Humenné
Track length7:56
No. 5, Oh, Mother Dear, It Itches
Track length4:15
No. 6, Tiny Clovers Blooming
Track length6:21
No. 7, Lullabies
Track length6:16
No. 8, My Father Is but One Big Headache
Track length5:57
No. 9, My Little Whistle - Ititi, Ititi
Track length7:36
No. 10, On the King's Mountain
Track length8:25
No. 11, I Must Have Been Crazy
Track length6:30
No. 12, On the Watchtower of Košice
Track length6:54
No. 13, My Mother Told Me Not to Sit in the Dark
Track length5:38
No. 14, I Had This Dream in America
Track length6:00
No. 15, What Are You Doing, Old Spinsters
Track length4:36
No. 16, You Little Gate with Bars
Track length3:44

Awards and reviews

May/June 2021

All of the music is inventive and fun to listen to. It is all firmly tonal and many of the pieces are upbeat and energetic, save for a handful of statelier dances that provide a nice respite from the jollity. One can certainly hear strong influences from Dvořák and even early Bartók in the Slavic melodies and orchestration, but Breiner carves out his own path with such inventive use of uncommon instruments.
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