Dvorak, A.: Symphony No. 9, "From the New World" / Mendelssohn, Felix: Symphony No. 3, "Scottish" (version for piano duet)

Featuring

Caroline Clemmow
Anthony Goldstone
Goldstone and Clemmow
Antonín Dvořák
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy

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Performer Biography

The British piano duo Goldstone and Clemmow, described as 'a dazzling husband and wife team', have a busy concert schedule stretching over twenty years and nearly thirty CDs.

Compositional Technique

Both Dvořák's 'New World' Symphony and Mendelssohn's 'Scottish' Symphony employ cyclic procedures, unifying their movements through references to earlier themes.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Dvořák's 'New World' Symphony, titled 'Z nového svĕta' ('From the New World'), was intended as a musical 'letter' to his Czech countrymen, conveying his impressions of America.

Composer Biography

Mendelssohn's 'Scottish' Symphony is dedicated to Queen Victoria, who, along with Prince Albert, was an amateur musician and admired his works.

Composition History

Dvořák's 'New World' Symphony was completed eight months after he arrived in New York to direct the National Conservatory, an institution with no barriers of race or poverty for entry.

Composition History

Mendelssohn began composing his 'Scottish' Symphony after visiting Holyrood Palace in Edinburgh in 1829, where he wrote, "I believe I have found my Scotland. Everything is ruined, decayed, there today the beginning of Scottish symphony'."