Dvorak and America
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Label: Naxos - American Classics
Cat No: 8559777
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Release Date: 30th June 2014
Contents
Works
American Suite in A major, op.98aHumoresques (8), op.101 B187
Goin' home (song based on Largo from Dvorak's 'New World Symphony')
Hiawatha Melodrama (after Dvorak) (Michael Beckerman)
Artists
Kevin Deas (narrator)Zhou Qian (violin)
Edmund Battersby (piano)
Benjamin Pasternack (piano)
University of Texas Chamber Singers
PostClassical Ensemble
Conductors
James MorrowAngel Gil-Ordonez
Works
American Suite in A major, op.98aHumoresques (8), op.101 B187
Goin' home (song based on Largo from Dvorak's 'New World Symphony')
Hiawatha Melodrama (after Dvorak) (Michael Beckerman)
Artists
Kevin Deas (narrator)Zhou Qian (violin)
Edmund Battersby (piano)
Benjamin Pasternack (piano)
University of Texas Chamber Singers
PostClassical Ensemble
Conductors
James MorrowAngel Gil-Ordonez
About
The centre piece of this programme is the first ever recording of the Hiawatha Melodrama, a concert work for narrator and orchestra designed to show the kinship between Dvořįk's New World Symphony and Longfellows poem 'The Song of Hiawatha', which Dvořįk said had inspired him in the symphony. It takes music from the symphony, as well as passages from the American Suite and Violin Sonatina, and fuses them with the poem, which is recited by a bass-baritone.
Also included is music by Arthur Farwell, who was influenced by Dvořįk, and was a proponent of Native American music.
This recording thus celebrates the crosscurrent of influences between the Czech composer and American music and culture.
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