Title: Mariss Jansons conducts Dvorak & Mussorgsky
Release year: 2014
Genre: Classical
Director: Michael Beyer
Conductor: Mariss Jansons
Artist: Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks

Description:

"What I compose is and always remains" Czech music, "asserted Antonín Dvorák, and we are the audiences who were enraptured with the Ninth since its world premiere at New York's Carnegie Hall on December 15, 1893 - are all the richer for it. After a fleeting nod to Negro Spirituals and vaguely Native American rhythms, Dvorák dug into his seemingly bottomless reserve of catchy melodies, foot-tapping rhythms, burnished brass intonations, mellow woodwind lines and other Bohemian traits that would be unthinkable without the pillars of Austro- Germanic music

"I simply wrote down the themes of my own invention and gave them the elements of the typical music of the Negroes and Indians." I used these themes as subjects, developing them with all the resources of rhythm, harmony and counterpoint, and with all the colors Of the modern orchestra, "the composer once said. Interestingly, the galley proofs of the work were corrected by none other than Johannes Brahms.

Of course, the work would most probably never have been written if it had not been for a patron, or patroness, to be more precise, Jeanette Thurber, who founded the National Conservatory of Music of America and invited the composer to New York in The hope that he would give birth to a national American music; He had, after all, created a national Czech music.

Tracklist
  Antonín Dvořák (1841-1904)
  Symphony No. 9 in E minor, Op. 95 'From the New World'
1. I. Adagio - Allegro molto
2. II. Largo
3. III. Scherzo: Molto vivace - Poco sostenuto
4. IV. Allegro con fuoco
  Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky (1839-1881)
  Pictures at an Exhibition (Orch. Maurice Ravel)
1. Promenade I
2. I. The Gnome
3. Promenade II
4. II. The Old Castle
5. Promenade III
6. III. Tuileries
7. IV. Bydlo
8. Promenade IV
9. V. Ballet of the Unhatched Chicks
10. VI. Samuel Goldenberg and Schmuyle
11. VII. The Market Place at Limoges
12. VIIIa. Catacombae. Sepulchrum romanum
13. VIIIb. Con mortuis in lingua mortua
14. IX. The Hut on Fowl's Legs (Baba-Yaga)
15 X. The Great Gate of Kiev

Issued: Germany | Clasart Classic / Belvedere
Duration: 00:45:49 + 00:37:03