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Title: Great Composers in Words & Music
Artist: Dvorak
Label: Naxos
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 747313836871
Genre: Classical
Release Date: 2023-07-14
Number of Discs: 1

?This latest release in the Great Composers in Words and Music series portrays Antonín Dvorák as a complex and wide-ranging composer, and explores the creation and performance of his music as well as it's reception on both sides of the Atlantic, tracing his art in all it's richness and variety. Musical excerpts include the Cello Concerto, the 'New World' Symphony and the Slavonic Dances, as well as selected chamber pieces, songs, opera excerpts and more.

Tracks:
1.1 Great Composers in Words and Music: Antonín Dvorák, narration with musical examples~Introduction
1.2 Slavonic Dances, Series 2, Op. 72, B. 147 - No. 1 in B major~[excerpt]
1.3 Great Composers in Words and Music: Antonín Dvorák, narration with musical examples~Bits and pieces are all we may know about the music of Antonín Dvorák
1.4 Ten Biblical Songs, Op. 99, B. 185 - No. 4. Hospodin jest muj pastýr (The Lord is my shepherd)~[excerpt]
1.5 Great Composers in Words and Music: Antonín Dvorák, narration with musical examples~The fourth of Dvorák's Ten Biblical Songs, titled 'The Lord is my shepherd' and set to a well-known Psalm text from the traditional Czech translation of the Kralice Bible.
1.6 Ten Biblical Songs, Op. 99, B. 185 - No. 6. Slyš, ó Bože, voláni mé (Hear my prayer, O Lord)~[excerpt]
1.7 Great Composers in Words and Music: Antonín Dvorák, narration with musical examples~Antonín Leopold Dvorák was born on 8 september 1841 in the village of Nelahozeves, near Kralupy, in Bohemia approximately 28km north of Prague
1.8 Symphony No. 6 in G major, Op. 116 'Historische Symphonie im Styl und Geschmack vier verschiedener Zeitabschnitte (Historical Symphony in the Style and Taste of Four Different Periods)~IV. Allerneueste Periode (The Very Latest Period) (1840): Allegro vivace [excerpt]
1.9 Great Composers in Words and Music: Antonín Dvorák, narration with musical examples~Reflecting on this period of the composer's life, Zubatý (the Czech writer mentioned previously) wrote: Seemingly for Dvorák the Organ School was more a means of qualifying for the formal title of musician than the
1.10 Symphony No. 1 in C minor, B. 9 'The Bells of Zionice'~II. Adagio molto [excerpt]
1.11 Great Composers in Words and Music: Antonín Dvorák, narration with musical examples~Dvorák's first symphony, composed between February and March 1865, began life as a submission to a German composition competition....
1.12 Symphony No. 1 in C minor, B. 9 'The Bells of Zionice'~I. [Maestoso] - [Allegro] [excerpt]
1.13 Great Composers in Words and Music: Antonín Dvorák, narration with musical examples~In early 1865, Dvorák started teaching piano to the daughters of a Prague goldsmith: one of the two, Anna Cermáková would later become his wife....
1.14 String Quartet No. 4 in E minor, B. 19~I. Assai con moto ed energico [excerpt]
1.15 Great Composers in Words and Music: Antonín Dvorák, narration with musical examples~Before he left the Provisional Theatre orchestra in the summer of 1871, Dvorák was the subject of an announcement in a leading local music journal.
1.16 Král a uhlir (King and Charcoal Burner), B. 21~Act I: Scene 9: Jaký zvuk to jest? (What sound is that?) [excerpt]
1.17 Great Composers in Words and Music: Antonín Dvorák, narration with musical examples~It seems that Dvorák's revision of the opera between 1873 and 1874 was but part of a larger stylistic renovation being undertaken by the composer at the time
1.18 Moravské dvojzpevy (Moravian Duets), Op. 32, B. 62 - No. 2. Velet', vtácku (Fly, Sweet Songster)~[excerpt]
1.19 Great Composers in Words and Music: Antonín Dvorák, narration with musical examples~In response to Dvorák's multi-composition submission for the 1877 stipendium, Brahms singled out the Moravian Duets for special praise
1.20 Slavonic Dances, Series 1, Op. 46, B. 83 - No. 1 in C major~[excerpt]
1.21 Great Composers in Words and Music: Antonín Dvorák, narration with musical examples~While this style of music might be regarded, somewhat cynically, as a kind of opportunistic 'tourist nationalism' (to quote a recent historian) listeners in Dvorák's time thought the very opposite, describing the da
1.22 Piano Trio No. 3 in F minor, Op. 65, B. 130~I. Allegro ma non troppo [excerpt]
1.23 Great Composers in Words and Music: Antonín Dvorák, narration with musical examples~In August 1883, Dvorák received a prestigious invitation: the London Philharmonic Society requested his presence as conductor (of his own orchestral works) in their forthcoming concert season.
1.24 Stabat Mater, Op. 58, B. 71 (original 1876 version) (version with orchestral accompaniment)~Stabat Mater dolorosa [excerpt]
1.25 Great Composers in Words and Music: Antonín Dvorák, narration with musical examples~Dvorák left Prague for London on 5 March 1884: eight days later he was conducting the Stabat Mater in the Royal Albert Hall.
1.26 Piano Trio No. 4 in E minor, Op. 90, B. 166 'Dumky'~I. Lento maestoso - Allegro vivace, quasi doppio movimento - Tempo I [excerpt]
1.27 Great Composers in Words and Music: Antonín Dvorák, narration with musical examples~In 1891, the same year Dvorák completed the 'Dumky' Trio, he took up the position of professor of composition and instrumentation at the Prague Conservatory.
1.28 Te Deum, Op.. 103, B. 176~Te Deum laudamus: Allegro moderato, maestoso [excerpt]
1.29 Great Composers in Words and Music: Antonín Dvorák, narration with musical examples~The premiere of the Te Deum within the celebratory concert, which took place on 21 October 1892 at New York's Carnegie Hall, was preceded by a concert address by the American musical patron Thomas Wentworth Higginso
1.30 Symphony No. 9 in E minor, Op. 95, B. 178 'From the New World'~III. Scherzo: Molto vivace [excerpt]
1.31 Great Composers in Words and Music: Antonín Dvorák, narration with musical examples~Following the premiere of his Ninth Symphony, Dvorák may well have looked forward to a prosperous and productive period in New York
1.32 Cello Concerto in B minor, Op. 104, B. 191~III. Finale: Andante - Allegro vivo [excerpt]
1.33 Great Composers in Words and Music: Antonín Dvorák, narration with musical examples~The next - and, indeed, the penultimate - phase in Dvorák's compositional journey seems to have emerged from his previous interest in music's extra-musical associations: the poetic or pictorial aspect explored in pr
1.34 Vodník (The Water Goblin), Symphonic Poem, Op. 107, B. 195~[excerpt]
1.35 Great Composers in Words and Music: Antonín Dvorák, narration with musical examples~During his final years, Dvorák became the recipient of various honours...
1.36 Armida, Op. 115, B. 206~Act I: Scene 1: Jak z dervišových prstu rinou (As delightful rosary beads glide in the hands of the dervishes) [excerpt]
1.37 Great Composers in Words and Music: Antonín Dvorák, narration with musical examples~Dvorák is said to have departed the theatre early on the evening of 25 March 1904, during the premiere of Armida at the National Theatre in Prague, where the opera was being directed by Robert Polak and conducted by
1.38 Hymnus k Nejsvetejší Trojici (Hymn to the Most Holy Trinity), B. 82: Deo Patri sit gloria~[excerpt]