Budapest So Mav/Csanyi - Imre Sz�ch�nyi: Complete Dances for Orchestra

Count Imre Sz�ch�nyi of S�rv�r-Fels?vid�k moved in the highest echelons of the Austrian diplomatic service, in a career that ran parallel with his musical activities. Sz�ch�nyi�s dances, all but three of which were composed in St Petersburg, were popular in his day, and of a quality that saw them placed in concert programmes by his friend Johann Strauss II. Appearing here in their premiere recordings, they reveal a brilliant collection of mazurkas and polkas with a keen sense of humour and deep feeling in their arching musical brush strokes and romantic melodies.