DVORAK Concerto in "B" Minor (Op. 104), Pablo Casals, RCA Victor, DM-458

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DVORAK
Concerto in "B" Minor (Op. 104)


Pablo Casals - 'Cello
with Georg Szell and the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra


RCA Victor Masterpiece Set
DM-458

Complete on Five Twelve-inch Records

Matrix numbers: 16365 - 16369

Antonín Leopold Dvo?ák (/?dv?r???k/ DVOR-zhahk or /d??v?r?æk/ di-VOR-zhak; Czech: [?anto?i?n ?l?opolt ?dvor?a?k]; September 8, 1841 – May 1, 1904) was a Czech composer. Following the nationalist example of Bed?ich Smetana, Dvo?ák frequently employed features of the folk music of Moravia and his native Bohemia (then parts of the Austrian Empire and now constituting the Czech Republic). Dvo?ák's own style has been described as 'the fullest recreation of a national idiom with that of the symphonic tradition, absorbing folk influences and finding effective ways of using them'.

Born in Nelahozeves, Dvo?ák displayed his musical gifts at an early age. His first surviving work, Forget-Me-Not Polka in C (Polka pomn?nka) was written possibly as early as 1854.He graduated from the organ school in Prague in 1859. In the 1860s, he played as a violist in the Bohemian Provisional Theater Orchestra and taught piano lessons. In 1873, he married Anna ?ermáková, and left the orchestra to pursue another career as a church organist. He wrote several compositions during this period. Dvo?ák's music attracted the interest of Johannes Brahms, who assisted his career; he was also supported by the critic Eduard Hanslick.

After the premiere of his cantata Stabat Mater (1880), Dvo?ák visited the United Kingdom and became popular there; his Seventh Symphony was written for London. After a brief conducting stint in Russia in 1890, Dvo?ák was appointed as a professor at the Prague Conservatory in 1891. In 1892, Dvo?ák moved to the United States and became the director of the National Conservatory of Music of America in New York City, where he also composed. However, a salary dispute, along with increasing recognition in Europe and an onset of homesickness made him decide to return to Bohemia. From 1895 until his death, he composed mainly operatic and chamber music. At his death, he left several unfinished works. 

Among Dvo?ák's best known works are his New World Symphony, the "American" String Quartet, the opera Rusalka and his Cello Concerto in B minor. Among his smaller works, the seventh Humoresque and the song 'Songs my mother taught me' are also widely performed and recorded. He composed operas, choral music, a wide variety of chamber music, concerti and many other orchestral and vocal and instrumental pieces. He has been described as 'arguably the most versatile...composer of his time'.

The Cello Concerto in B minor, Op. 104, B. 191, by Antonín Dvo?ák was the composer's last solo concerto, and was written in 1894–1895 for his friend, the cellist Hanuš Wihan, but premiered by the English cellist Leo Stern.

Structure

The piece is scored for a full romantic orchestra (with the exception of a 4th horn) containing two flutes (second doubling piccolo), two oboes, two clarinets, two bassoons, three horns, two trumpets, three trombones, tuba, timpani, triangle (last movement only), and strings, and is in the standard three-movement concerto format:

1. Allegro (B minor then B major; about 15 minutes)
2. Adagio, ma non troppo (G major; about 12 minutes)
3. Finale: Allegro moderato – Andante – Allegro vivo (B minor then B major; about 13 minutes)

Total duration: Approximately 40 minutes

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