Dvořák: Complete Symphonies, Vol. 1

Featuring

Karel Mark Chichon
Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern
Antonín Dvořák

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Critical Reception

Dvořák's Symphony No. 1 was kept private by the composer due to his own critical eye and was not premiered until 1936, with a full publication in 1961.

Recording & Production

This recording is part of a complete recording of Antonín Dvořák's orchestral works by Karel Mark Chichon and the German Radio Philharmonic Orchestra for the record label hänssler CLASSIC/SWR music.

Composer Biography

Antonín Dvořák, born to an innkeeper and butcher, initially trained as a butcher before becoming an organist and violist.

Composition History

Dvořák's Rhapsody in A Minor, Op. 14, was intended to start a cycle of national works, similar to Franz Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsodies.

Performer Biography

Karel Mark Chichon, the conductor on this album, was born in London to Gibraltarian parents and has been made an 'Officer of the British Empire' by Queen Elizabeth II for his services to music.

Composition History

Dvořák's Symphony No. 1, subtitled 'The Bells of Zlonice', was composed between February 14 and March 24, 1865, when he was 24 years old.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Dvořák's First Symphony is seen as renewing the traditional symphony genre with a 'New German' spirit and a Czech idiom, essentially marking the birth of a national symphony.