New Album Releases: DVORAK - SLAVONIC DANCES (Tomáš Brauner, Prague Symphony Orchestra)

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Artist:
Tomáš Brauner
Prague Symphony Orchestra

Genre:
Classical

Total Time:
78:26

Record Label:
Supraphon

Purchasing Links:
CD, MP3, Apple Music

Release Date
January 5, 2024




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Product Description: Highly impressed by the Moravian Duets, even though the set had yet to be issued, the Berlin-based publisher Fritz Simrock wrote to the young Antonín Dvorák, commissioning from him another work and outlining his idea of its being in the fashion of Brahms’s Hungarian Dances. The composer duly sketched the first series of Slavonic Dances within a few hours, and completed the version for piano four hands in three weeks. At the same time, he worked on the orchestration. In an extensive essay in the National- Zeitung in Berlin, the influential critic Louis Ehlert lauded Dvorák so keenly that he brought the then unknown Czech artist overnight fame: “I consider the Slavonic Dances a piece that will circle the world just as Brahms’s Hungarian Dances have … Divine naturalness circulates in this music … Dvorák writes such cheerful and singular basslines that the heart of a true musician jumps for joy … I think how wonderful it would be to see once again emerging a musician about whom we would need to argue as little as about spring.” During the first year after its publication, selected Slavonic Dances were performed in Prague, New York, Boston, London, Berlin, Dresden, Hamburg, Cologne, Bonn, Nice, Graz, Lucerne, and other cities … Dvorák’s music is deeply engraved in the DNA of the Prague Symphony Orchestra, who have performed it under conductors of such renown as Jirí Belohlávek, Charles Mackerras, Václav Neumann, Tomáš Netopil, etc. The new recording, made with Tomáš Brauner, the orchestra’s current music director, draws upon an illustrious interpretation tradition, with its rounded and transparent sound capturing the best qualities of the exquisite Art Nouveau Smetana Hall of the Municipal House in Prague. / Slavonic Dances with the Prague Symphony Orchestra – Dvorák in good hands

TRACK LIST:

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1 . Slavonic Dances, Series I., Op. 46, B. 83: I. in C major. Presto Prague Symphony Orchestra & Tomáš Brauner (04:27)

2 . Slavonic Dances, Series I., Op. 46, B. 83: II. in E minor. Allegretto scherzando Prague Symphony Orchestra & Tomáš Brauner (05:18)

3 . Slavonic Dances, Series I., Op. 46, B. 83: III. in A flat major. Poco allegro Prague Symphony Orchestra & Tomáš Brauner (05:04)

4 . Slavonic Dances, Series I., Op. 46, B. 83: IV. in F major. Tempo di menuetto Prague Symphony Orchestra & Tomáš Brauner (07:31)

5 . Slavonic Dances, Series I., Op. 46, B. 83: V. in A major. Allegro vivace Prague Symphony Orchestra & Tomáš Brauner (03:30)

6 . Slavonic Dances, Series I., Op. 46, B. 83: VI. in D major. Allegretto scherzando Prague Symphony Orchestra & Tomáš Brauner (06:13)

7 . Slavonic Dances, Series I., Op. 46, B. 83: VII. in C minor. Allegro assai Prague Symphony Orchestra & Tomáš Brauner (03:40)

8 . Slavonic Dances, Series I., Op. 46, B. 83: VIII. in G minor. Presto Prague Symphony Orchestra & Tomáš Brauner (04:47)

9 . Slavonic Dances, Series II., Op. 72, B. 147: I. in B major. Molto vivace Prague Symphony Orchestra & Tomáš Brauner (04:37)

10 . Slavonic Dances, Series II., Op. 72, B. 147: II. in E minor. Allegretto grazioso Prague Symphony Orchestra & Tomáš Brauner (06:02)

11 . Slavonic Dances, Series II., Op. 72, B. 147: III. in F major. Allegro Prague Symphony Orchestra & Tomáš Brauner (03:52)

12 . Slavonic Dances, Series II., Op. 72, B. 147: IV. in D flat major. Allegretto grazioso Prague Symphony Orchestra & Tomáš Brauner (05:28)

13 . Slavonic Dances, Series II., Op. 72, B. 147: V. in B flat minor. Poco adagio Prague Symphony Orchestra & Tomáš Brauner (02:49)

14 . Slavonic Dances, Series II., Op. 72, B. 147: VI. in B flat major. Moderato, quasi minuetto Prague Symphony Orchestra & Tomáš Brauner (04:14)

15 . Slavonic Dances, Series II., Op. 72, B. 147: VII. in C major. Presto Prague Symphony Orchestra & Tomáš Brauner (03:26)

16 .Slavonic Dances, Series II., Op. 72, B. 147: VIII. in A flat major. Lento grazioso, quasi tempo di valse Prague Symphony Orchestra & Tomáš Brauner (07:38)

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