Dvorak: Slavonic Dances

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Brauner and the Prague Symphony Orchestra know this music backwards, but they show lit tle sign of taking familiar native repertoire for granted. — BBC Music Magazine, February 2024, 4 out of 5 stars

Release Date: 8th Dec 2023
Catalogue No: SU43322
Label: Supraphon
Length: 78 minutes

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Dvořák: Slavonic Dances Nos. 1-8, Op. 46 Nos. 1-8

Work length40:25

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Tomáš Brauner

I. in C major. Presto

Track length4:26

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II. in E minor. Allegretto scherzando

Track length5:17

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III. in A flat major. Poco allegro

Track length5:03

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IV. in F major. Tempo di menuetto

Track length7:30

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V. in A major. Allegro vivace

Track length3:30

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VI. in D major. Allegretto scherzando

Track length6:13

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VII. in C minor. Allegro assai

Track length3:39

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VIII. in G minor. Presto

Track length4:47

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Dvořák: Slavonic Dances Nos. 9-16, Op. 72 Nos. 1-8

Work length38:02

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I. in B major. Molto vivace

Track length4:36

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II. in E minor. Allegretto grazioso

Track length6:02

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III. in F major. Allegro

Track length3:52

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IV. in D flat major. Allegretto grazioso

Track length5:27

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V. in B flat minor. Poco adagio

Track length2:49

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VI. in B flat major. Moderato, quasi minuetto

Track length4:13

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VII. in C major. Presto

Track length3:26

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VIII. in A flat major. Lento grazioso, quasi tempo di valse

Track length7:37

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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 Dvořák, 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 NationalZeitung in Berlin, the influential critic Louis Ehlert lauded Dvořák 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 … Dvořák 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 … Dvořák’s music is deeply engraved in the DNA of the Prague Symphony Orchestra, who have performed it under conductors of such renown as Jiří Bělohlávek, 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.

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February 2024

Brauner and the Prague Symphony Orchestra know this music backwards, but they show lit tle sign of taking familiar native repertoire for granted.

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