Dvořák: Concerto for Cello & Orchestra in B-Minor & Symphonic Variations for Orchestra on "I Am Fiddler"
1/1/2007, 32 Tracks, 1:03:00
Featuring
Iván Fischer
Pieter Wispelwey
Budapest Festival Orchestra
Antonín Dvořák
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Composition History
Dvořák composed his Cello Concerto in New York between November 1894 and February 1895, while serving as director of the New York Conservatory.
Performer Biography
Iván Fischer, the conductor, founded the Budapest Festival Orchestra in 1983, introducing intense rehearsal methods and an emphasis on chamber music for each musician.
Composition History
Dvořák dedicated his Cello Concerto to his friend, cellist Hanus Wihan, but strictly forbade Wihan or anyone else from altering the score, including a cadenza Wihan had written.
Performer Biography
Pieter Wispelwey, the cellist on this album, was the first cellist ever to receive the Netherlands Music Prize in 1992, awarded to the most promising young musician in the Netherlands.
Composition History
Dvořák extended the coda of the Cello Concerto's final movement with a reminiscence of his song 'Leave me alone' as a tribute to his beloved sister-in-law, Josefina Kounicová, after her death.
Composition History
Dvořák's Symphonic Variations for orchestra, Op. 78, uses a theme from his men's part-song 'Huslaf' (The Fiddler), which he composed seven months earlier.
Critical Reception
Dvořák's Cello Concerto became hugely popular worldwide after its 1896 London premiere and holds a significant place among 19th-century masterpieces.
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