Johannes Brahms: Hungarian Dance No. 1

Hungarian Dance No. 1 in g minor Allegro molti - Johannes Brahms Janos Sandor conducting Hungarian Philharmonic Orchestra Video clips from the ballet Coppelia by the members of the Bolshoi Ballet featuring Natalia Osipova In composing the music for his Hungarian dances, Johannes Brahms made use of the Hungarian folk songs he had heard. These are based on the Hungarian dance Czardas, which usually consists of two parts, the one melancholy, the other wild and passionate, reflecting respectively the Magyar and Gypsy spirit. In the video clips of the slow dance parts from Coppelia, when Swanilda sees the doll Coppélia on the balcony, she dances to attract her attention and wonders why the reading figure does not respond. Like everyone else, she believes the doll to be a living person. In the fast dance parts, the wheat harvesters dance a mazurka to celebrate the harvest.