Slavonic Dances
Bohemian and Slavic folk rhythms taken into the concert hall. The score that carried his name across Europe.
Classical · Czech Romantic · 1841 · 1904
Antonín Dvořák
Bohemian composer of song and silence. Dvořák was a village butcher\'s son who became director of the National Conservatory in New York and wrote his Ninth Symphony with the plantation songs of the American South in his ear. He carried Czech folk material into the European concert hall and never lost the longing for home. From the Slavonic Dances to the Stabat Mater, the listener walks the whole range of one human voice grounded in the village and opened to the world.
XII selections · 7h 60m
Individual works
Symphonies, concertos, and single pieces
Symphony No. 9
From the New World
Written in New York in 1893, full of plantation song and Native American melody. The most famous symphony ever composed in America.
Serenade for Strings
Op. 22
Five movements for string orchestra in the warm Bohemian manner. Composed in twelve days and never revised.
Suite in A Major
Op. 98b · American Suite · 432 Hz
A suite written during his New York years, set in five movements of folk-song clarity.
Romance
for violin and orchestra
A short concert piece in his most lyrical Czech mode.
Symphony No. 9 · Allegro con fuoco
Fourth movement · 432 Hz
The final movement of the New World. The most famous symphonic conclusion of the nineteenth century.
Violin Concerto
A minor · Op. 53 · 432 Hz
His concerto for violin and orchestra, written for Joseph Joachim and full of Czech inflection.
Legend No. 4
One of the ten Legends. Folk balladry made symphonic; a story whose hero is the orchestra.
Cello Concerto
B minor · Op. 104
His farewell concerto, written near the end of his American years. The cello sings as he looked homeward.
Extended listening
The Stabat Mater and compilations
For long sessions of work, study, or contemplation.
Stabat Mater
Op. 58 · Complete
His great Marian cantata, composed in mourning after the death of three of his children. An hour and a half of grief carried into prayer.
The Best of Dvořák
Classical Music for Brain Power · 432 Hz
An hour and a half of the most loved Dvořák. For long sessions of work or contemplation.
Stabat Mater
Complete · 432 Hz · Relaxing and Healing
A second complete reading of the Stabat Mater, in 432 Hz tuning. The same passage from sorrow into light.