Dvorak / Prague Symphony Orchestra: Slavonic Dances
Dvorak / Prague Symphony Orchestra: Slavonic Dances
Format: CD
Wanting to order from us over the holiday period but need some more information. We are here to help! Please see our Christmas Shipping page for more information.
On average, orders containing available-to-ship items are processed and dispatched within 1-2 business days, although this is not guaranteed.
Orders containing preorder items will ship as 1 fulfillment once all items in the order are available to ship.
Please note, Tower Records Merchandise and Exclusives are dispatched separately. On average, these items take 3-4 business days to dispatch, although this is not guaranteed.
The estimated shipping times that are displayed at checkout are from the point of dispatch.
See our shipping policy for more information.
We have a 30-day return policy, which means you have 30 days after receiving your item(s) to make a return.
For orders created between November 20th 2024 and December 31st 2024, we have extended our normal return period. For orders made between this period, customers have up to 60 days from the receipt of goods to return an item. Please see our Christmas Returns page for more information.
To be eligible for a return of an unwanted item, your item must be in the same condition that you received it and in its original packaging.
In the unfortunate situation that a product is damaged/faulty/incorrect, let us know and we will endeavor to correct any issue as soon as possible.
Please see our refund policy for more information.
Artist: Dvorak / Prague Symphony Orchestra
Label: Supraphon
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 099925433222
Genre: Classical Artists
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 it's 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 it's 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 it's 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
Tracks:
