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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Leos Svarovsky leads the Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra in music by a Czech composer you may not be familiar with. We hear "Souvenirs," by Jan Cikker (CHEE-ker), along with an encore by a composer you ...

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 ...

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Johannes Brahms met Antonin Dvorak when Dvorak was applying for a scholarship from an Austrian imperial committee. Brahms was a member, and the committee was charged with providing scholarships to ...

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 ...