Berliner Philharmoniker & Sir Simon Rattle – Dvorák: Tone Poems (2005/2014) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Berliner Philharmoniker & Sir Simon Rattle – Dvorák: Tone Poems (2005/2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:23:46 minutes | 705 MB | Genre: Classical
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From the included liner notes by Andrew Huth:

Dvorák returned to Bohemia from his last American visit in April 1895 and for the rest of his life divided his time between Prague and his small property at Vysoká, making occasional trips abroad to conduct or attend performances of his music. Aged at this time fifty-three, he was internationally famous and in a position to write more or less what he wanted. Between the spring of 1893 and the end of 1895 he had completed some of his finest instrumental works – the Ninth Symphony (‘From the New World’), the Cello Concerto and three string quartets – but he now seems to have made a conscious decision to turn away from ‘pure’ instrumental music. An intensely patriotic man, he was always anxious to be appreciated as a Czech artist, and in the last decade of his life concentrated on giving musical expression to subjects that were both national and dramatic. His real ambition was to write a successful national opera to stand alongside the works of Smetana: Rusalka, composed in 1900, broadly realised this aim.

Perhaps it was as a half-way step towards the stage that in January 1896 he began to compose, almost simultaneously, three symphonic poems: The Water Goblin, The Noonday Witch and The Golden Spinning-Wheel. The first was finished within five weeks, on 11 February; the other two by the end of February and March respectively. They were given a run-through at the Prague Conservatoire on 3 June, and first performed in London in October and November. A fourth in the series, The Wood Dove, followed that autumn.

These works, which Dvoˇ rák entitled ‘orchestral ballads’, are based on poems by Karel Jaromír Erben (1811–1870), official archivist of the city of Prague. Although he devoted only a small part of his life to original writing, he made a large collection of folk songs, first published in 1841. His original work is almost all contained in one small volume, Kytice z povˇ estí národních (A Garland of Folk Poetry, 1853), a collection of twelve ballads, one of which had already provided Dvorák with the text of his large-scale cantata The Spectre’s Bride (1885). These ballads are too sophisticated to be considered direct imitations of folk poetry, but Erben drew heavily on his country’s folk traditions for their narrative poetic form and and their dramatic, symbolic and psychological possibilities.

Tracklist:
01. Sir Simon Rattle – The Golden Spinning Wheel, Op. 109, B. 197: I. Allegro, ma non troppo (08:35)
02. Sir Simon Rattle – The Golden Spinning Wheel, Op. 109, B. 197: II. Molto vivace (06:40)
03. Sir Simon Rattle – The Golden Spinning Wheel, Op. 109, B. 197: III. Lento (06:24)
04. Sir Simon Rattle – The Golden Spinning Wheel, Op. 109, B. 197: IV. Allegro, ma non troppo (06:18)
05. Sir Simon Rattle – The Wood Dove, Op. 110, B. 198: I. Andante, Marcia funebre (05:21)
06. Sir Simon Rattle – The Wood Dove, Op. 110, B. 198: II. Allegro (02:55)
07. Sir Simon Rattle – The Wood Dove, Op.110, B. 198: III. Molto vivace (05:37)
08. Sir Simon Rattle – The Wood Dove, Op. 110, B. 198: IV. Andante (06:55)
09. Sir Simon Rattle – The Noon Witch, Op.108, B. 196: I. Allegretto (05:35)
10. Sir Simon Rattle – The Noon Witch, Op. 108, B. 196: II. Andante sostenuto e molto tranquillo (05:19)
11. Sir Simon Rattle – The Noon Witch, Op. 108, B. 196: III. Andante (02:44)
12. Sir Simon Rattle – The Water Goblin, Op. 107, B.105: I. Allegro vivo (07:00)
13. Sir Simon Rattle – The Water Goblin, Op. 107, B. 195: II. Andante mesto come prima (04:53)
14. Sir Simon Rattle – The Water Goblin, Op. 107, B. 195: III. Un poco piu mosso (04:29)
15. Sir Simon Rattle – The Water Goblin, Op. 197, B. 105: IV. Allegro vivace (04:55)

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