Antonin Dvorak was a starving violist when he wrote his first set of Slavonic Dances, but the dances saved him financially. They were popular enough to create demand for a second set. Ivan Fischer ...
Sir Simon Rattle dances with the Czech Philharmonic in this vibrant new recording of Antonín Dvořák’s Slavonic Dances, this week’s Feature Album on ABC Classic. Sir Simon and the orchestra perform, in ...
A powerhouse in Czech musical circles, Jiri Belohlavek leads the Prague Philharmonia in music by native son Antonin Dvorak. They're in Dvorak Hall playing Dvorak's Slavonic Dance, Op. 72, No. 9.
Antonin Dvorak had a thing for the raucous Czech dance called the "Furiant" (FUR-ee-ahnt). He wove them into his symphonies and started off his set of Slavonic Dances with one. The Philharmonia of the ...
We join the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra and conductor Vladimir Valek in concert to hear three of Antonin Dvorak's Slavonic Dances: numbers 1 and 3 from the Op. 46 set, followed by number 15 from ...
Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. As part of it's 2010 Master Series Concerts, WASO will perform Slavonic Dances by Czech composer Antonin Dvorak. The two performances at ...
The Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival is one of many summer music celebrations on Performance Today's radar screen. We take you to New Mexico to hear violinist Joseph Silverstein and pianist Marc ...
Two powerful pianists, one romantic dance: husband-and-wife team Emmanuel Ax and Yoko Nozaki play the Slavonic Dance No. 1 in C Major by Dvorak, at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. Around ...
Dvořák would probably be accused of cultural appropriation these days, but the critic Louis Ehlert took an altogether more generous attitude to the Slavonic Dances: ‘Whoever discovers a precious jewel ...
The fabled Dvorak Hall in Prague is the location of the concert we take you to next. Yuri Simonov leads the Moscow Philharmonic the Slavonic Dances Nos. 10 and 15, by Antonin Dvorak.
What a joy this is – every turn of phrase, every inflection, every infectious rhythm so completely inbred. Effortless. Hearing the two sets of dances in sequence once more I am more than ever ...