Dvorak: Overtures

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attentive, well played and very well recorded. — Gramophone Magazine, March 2016 More…

Release Date: 19th Feb 2016
Catalogue No: PTC5186532
Label: Pentatone
Length: 63 minutes

Dvořák: In Nature's Realm Overture, Op. 91, B. 168

Work length14:54

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Prague Philharmonia
Jakub Hrůša

Dvořák: Carnival Overture, Op. 92

Work length9:44

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Prague Philharmonia
Jakub Hrůša

Dvořák: Othello Overture, Op. 93, B. 174

Work length14:44

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Prague Philharmonia
Jakub Hrůša

Dvořák: My Homeland Overture, Op. 62, B. 125a

Work length10:16

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Prague Philharmonia
Jakub Hrůša

Dvořák: Hussite Overture, Op. 67

Work length13:40

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Prague Philharmonia
Jakub Hrůša

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For a large part, thanks to the effort of Johannes Brahms, who introduced him to his publisher Simrock, Czech composer Antonín Dvořák developed into a composer with an international reputation. Don’t we all know his Slavonic Dances, his Symphonies or his chamber music, such as the Dumky Trio or the American string quartet? This album reveals some of the more hidden treasures of Dvořák’s repertoire, namely his overtures, of which he wrote no less than thirteen. In the booklet to the album they are described as follows: All five overtures on this recording are richly and vividly scored, employing palettes of instruments broader on average than those found in Dvořák’s mature symphonies and sometimes calling for special effects. For their orchestral colour but also their rich expression of poetic content, as well as their purely musical invention and structural mastery, these overtures constitute gems of special brilliance in the treasury of Dvořák’s compositional bequest.The PKF – Prague Philharmonia recorded this album in January 2015 at the Forum Karlin in Prague under the baton of their 2009-2015 Music Director and Chief Conductor Jakub Hrůša.

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March 2016

attentive, well played and very well recorded.

14th February 2016

Dvorak initially intended all the pieces to be played in sequence, as here, but they rarely are. The Czech musicians play this music, and the earlier My Home and Hussite, with native zeal: glorious woodwinds evoke Dvorak’s al fresco scene–painting.

Dvorak: Overtures

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