Along with the traditional chocolate from Spain and candy canes from Russia, Ohman slipped in such delicacies as a Hungarian-style Czardas dance, an Italian Neapolitan dance and a Polish mazurka.

A czardas is a Hungarian dance style which moves seamlessly between sections with different tempos, keys and characters, all built around the same theme. As Monti’s Czardas moves through different ...

The sense of loneliness and longing is overwhelming at the beginning of this quartet, and continues throughout. The last movement, based on the Hungarian Czárdás dance creates tension through a ...