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A guide to Beethoven's piano concerto no.4 and its best recordings - Classical Music.
- Slavonic Dances Op. 46 and 72
- String Quartet No. 10
- Violin Concerto
- Symphony No. 7
- Piano Quintet No. 2, Op. 81
- Symphony No. 8
- Carnival Overture, Op. 92
- Piano Trio No. 4, “Dumky”
- String Quartet No. 12, “American”
- Symphony No. 9, “From The New World”
A series of 16 orchestral pieces composed over the span of a single decade, Dvořák’s Slavonic Dances were originally written with a piano and four hands in mind. The composer had encountered Brahms’s recent Hungarian Dances in the late 1870s, and at the request of his publisher, turned his elegantly lilting piano pieces into full-scale symphonic po...
Not long after publishing his Slavonic Dances, Dvořák was approached by prominent German violinist-composer Jean Becker, who wanted a new work for his Florentine Quartet. The resulting String Quartet in E-flat Major, though dedicated to Becker, was ultimately premiered by a different quartet at a private recital in 1879. The style of the four-movem...
A defining work in the violin repertoire, this concerto was written for Hungarian prodigy Joseph Joachim, one of Dvořák’s favorite violinists. When it was finished in 1879, however, Joachim was put off by many of the composer’s revolutionary ideas for the form: A punctilious classicist, Joachim didn’t appreciate how the adagio of the second movemen...
While subtle and modest in size, Dvořák’s Seventh is often counted among the greatest of the composer’s nine symphonies. It was commissioned by the London Philharmonic Society, which in 1884 invited Dvořák to become an honorary member in return for a new symphony. This was Dvořák’s only such commission, and it clearly inspired him: He set to task w...
Between August and October 1887, Dvořák composed his Piano Quintet in A Major at Vysok. At the time, he was reviewing the many unpublished works created during his years of obscurity and revising some of them for his publisher. Decades later, his beloved second piano quintet would receive its Carnegie Hall premiere in Carnegie Lyceum (now Zankel Ha...
Dvořák’s Eighth is the most straightforwardly “Bohemian” of this nationalistic composer’s later symphonies. Whereas in the Seventh Symphony Dvořák had reined in his overtly nationalist tendencies to write a more internationally “relatable” work—and explored African American and Indigenous American material in the Ninth—in the Eighth Symphony, Dvořá...
Composed in 1891 as part of a romantic “Nature, Life, and Love” trilogy of overtures, this orchestral Carnivalwas intended for the second part: life. Fast and festive, it’s written in the jubilant key of A major, and features a full ensemble of strings, winds, and even tambourine. As per its title, the work nods to the spirited bedlam of a carnival...
One of Dvořák’s most popular chamber works, the “Dumky” Trio takes its name from the Slavic folk ballads, typically melancholy in nature, that provided inspiration for numerous 19th- and 20th-century composers. Eager to reassert his Czech heritage, Dvořák based the work’s six movements on dumkyof varying temperaments. He wrote the trio shortly befo...
The shortest of Dvořák’s 14 string quartets, the “American” is among his most accessible works, despite its formal and thematic brevity. “I wanted for once to write something very melodious and simple, and I always kept Papa Haydn before my eyes,” the composer told a friend back home in Bohemia. The germ of the quartet seems to have been the song o...
Since its epochal world premiere at Carnegie Hall in 1893, Dvořák’s “New World” Symphony has become one of America’s most popular orchestral works and is considered a breakthrough in its use of African American musical idioms—though it also spawned some controversy. The work was composed in New York City, and it drew from a wide array of source mat...
Lukáš Vondráček piano Beethoven, Rachmaninoff Ludwig van Beethoven: Egmont, overture, Op. 84 Sergei Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 1 in F sharp Minor, Op. 1 Antonín Dvořák: Symphony No. 5 in F Major, Op. 76, B. 54 Rudolfinum, Dvořák Hall 8.00 pm World-Class Orchestras Tickets
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Feb 20, 2024 · Evan Keely: Well, 1877, John is also a very significant moment in Dvorak's life because it is at that point that Johannes Brahms is on this panel, and Brahms becomes aware of Dvorak's music, and he is immediately, unlike so many others that Dvorak has encountered earlier in life who seem to look down their noses at him.
It would seem that the idea to abandon Slav folkloric inspiration during the composition of Symphony No. 7 was based on a rational decision to create a major work on the scale of Beethoven or Brahms which would triumph on the international music scene. A further impulse governing Dvořák’s resolve to write so significant a piece may also ...
Dec 17, 2023 · The earliest of Beethoven’s piano concertos that we generally hear, No. 2, was first drafted in the late 1780s and the last completed in 1809-10, by which time the world of Beethoven’s youth ...
The concerto was premiered in Prague on 24 March 1878 by pianist Karel Slavkovský, with Adolf Čech as conductor. The work was performed several times during Dvořák’s lifetime: in London on 13 October 1883 (piano: Oscar Beringer, conductor: August Manns), in Prague on 4 January and 26 March 1884 (piano: Ella Modřická, conductor: Adolf ...
