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Background: A live recording made at the famous Concertgebouw and conducted by Yakov Kreizberg. Dvorak completed his first American composition Symphony No.9 in May 1893. The folk music of his beloved Bohemia can be heard in the symphony however Dvorak also processed the music of his host country which had welcomed him with open arms. Through a colleague at the conservatoire he had come into contact with African-American spirituals and songs which the slaves had sung in the plantations and he had studied American Indian music in transcription.

Literal quotes from American folk music cannot be found in his Symphony No.9 which he titled 'From the New World'. That was never his intention: he had tried to reproduce the spirit of the music in his newest symphony. 'I did not use existing melodies. I just wrote original themes which contain the characteristics of Indian music and then I elaborated on these themes using all the means of modern rhythm harmony counterpoint and orchestral tones.' It became evident later that Dvorák had plumbed the depths of American music when one of his students wrote a text for the melody of the slow movement from the Ninth and then arranged it for choir. This arrangement of the symphony Goin' home was long believed to be an original spiritual quoted by Dvorak.

CATALOGUE NR: PTC5186019
RECORD LABEL: Pentatone
FORMAT: Hybrid SACD
PRICE: £ 12.50 including VAT, or £ 10.64 excluding VAT
RELEASE DATE: 13-Oct-2003

COMPOSER: Antonin Dvorak  (other composers in brackets after works)
TRACKS: Symphony No.9 in E minor op.95 'New World' (Dvorak). Fantasy Overture Romeo & Juliet (Tchaikovsky).
ORCHESTRA: Netherlands Philharmonic
CONDUCTOR: Yakov Kreizberg

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