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Around Dvořák: Disc 6 (2014)

<em>Around Dvořák:</em> Disc 6

Having achieved great renown for cultivating a distinctly Czech musical idiom, Antonín Dvořák accepted an invitation in 1891 to lead the National Conservatory in New York and guide a rising generation of American composers. Upon arrival, he found exciting potential for a truly American voice through Native and African American melodies, rhythms, and harmonies. Seeking to lead by example, Dvořák composed his famous symphony From the New World and American-inspired chamber music including the Sonatina for Violin and Piano. Disc VI pairs Dvořák with American composers who fulfilled Dvořák’s vision of a genuinely American style: Charles Ives, whose songs lifted this unfolding folk idiom to new heights, and contemporary master George Crumb, whose kaleidoscopic ear reimagines America’s most popular folk music.

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Selections

The Union, op. 48 | Louis Moreau Gottschalk (7:41)

  • Gilles Vonsattel, Piano

Sonatina in G Major for Violin and Piano, op. 100 | Antonín Dvořák (19:47)

  • Arnaud Sussmann, Violin
  • Wu Han, Piano

Selected Songs for Baritone and Piano | Charles Ives (15:21)

The Circus Band
All summer long, we boys
dreamed 'bout big circus joys!
Down Main street, comes the band,
Oh! "Ain't it a grand and glorious noise!"

Horses are prancing, knights advancing;
Helmets gleaming, pennants streaming,
Cleopatra's on her throne!
That golden hair is all her own.

Where is the lady all in pink?
Last year she waved to me I think,
Can she have died? Can! that! rot!
She is passing but she sees me not.
Charles Ives
  • Gilbert Kalish, Piano
  • Randall Scarlata, Baritone

American Songbook II: A Journey beyond Time | George Crumb (35:41)

  • Florian Conzetti, Percussion
  • Christopher Froh, Percussion
  • Gilbert Kalish, Piano
  • Ayano Kataoka, Percussion
  • Ian Rosenbaum, Percussion
  • Randall Scarlata, Baritone

Artists

  • Florian Conzetti, Percussion
  • Christopher Froh, Percussion
  • Gilbert Kalish, Piano
  • Ayano Kataoka, Percussion
  • Ian Rosenbaum, Percussion
  • Randall Scarlata, Baritone
  • Arnaud Sussmann, Violin
  • Gilles Vonsattel, Piano
  • Wu Han, Piano

<em>Around Dvořák:</em> Disc 6 Total Time: 1:18:23
Discs: 1
Price: $15.00
Year Recorded: 2014