Dvorak - Cello Concerto, Silent Woods, Serenade for Strings
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Label: Brilliant Classics
Cat No: 95696
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Orchestral
Release Date: 25th February 2022
Contents
Works
Cello Concerto in B minor, op.104From the Bohemian Forest, op.68 B133
Artists
Petr Nouzovsky (cello)Czech Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra Pardubice
Conductor
Stanislav VavrinekWorks
Cello Concerto in B minor, op.104From the Bohemian Forest, op.68 B133
Artists
Petr Nouzovsky (cello)Czech Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra Pardubice
Conductor
Stanislav VavrinekAbout
His Serenade for Strings was composed in 1875, the same year the impoverished musician became a successful composer almost overnight, after the publisher Simrock made Dvořák’s Moravian Duets a veritable bestseller, having agreed to work with him on the recommendation of Johannes Brahms. Each of the Serenade’s five movements is a variation on ternary (A–B–A) form. The resourcefulness with which Dvořák invents novel ways of returning from the middle section to the opening motive and key is astounding.
Silent Woods has much to do with Dvořák’s relocation to America. He was engaged to establish and direct a new National Conservatory in New York. Based on his now established ability to blend Czech folk music with large-scale classical forms it was hoped he would do the same in his new post with American folk music. The Czech transplant indeed soon found his bearings and set about creating a new tradition of American national music on the highest artistic footing. In 1892, before leaving his home for the US, Dvořák gave something of a farewell tour of Czech cities, writing the cello version of Silent Woods for performance in these recitals. Ten years later, Dvořák created the version for cello and orchestra recorded here.
At the conclusion of his time in New York and on his return to Bohemia, Dvořák was focused particularly on writing his Cello Concerto. At first believing the cello an unsuitable instrument for concertante music, his mind had been changed on hearing a concerto by American virtuoso and composer Victor Herbert, and Dvořák’s masterpiece took on its definitive form in 1895. Disagreements over alterations suggested by the work’s intended first soloist led to the premiere being delayed until a performance in London by Leo Stern in 1896. Now, no other concertante composition for cello and orchestra is performed more frequently on the international stage.
Recorded in January and April 2021 in Pardubice, Czech Republic
Booklet in English contains notes on the works by eminent Czech composer Lukáš Hurník, along with biographies of the soloist, orchestra and conductor
Petr Nouzovský plays a 1921 Georg Rauer cello
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