Two powerful pianists, one romantic dance: husband-and-wife team Emmanuel Ax and Yoko Nozaki play the Slavonic Dance No. 1 in C Major by Dvorak, at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. Around ...

From the Slavonic Dances to the great symphonies, here are some of the most celebrated pieces of music by the Czech Romantic composer. Starting out as a prodigious violinist, first in his father’s ...

Antonin Dvorak was a starving violist when he wrote his first set of Slavonic Dances, but the dances saved him financially. They were popular enough to create demand for a second set. Ivan Fischer ...

The piano pieces - later orchestrated - that established Dvořák's international reputation. In the late nineteenth century, piano-duet sheet music was the iTunes download of its day. In almost every ...

Rob Cowan compares the available recordings of Dvorak's first set of Slavonic Dances (Op.46) which he orchestrated from his original set of dances for piano duet.

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Sir Simon Rattle dances with the Czech Philharmonic in this vibrant new recording of Antonín Dvořák’s Slavonic Dances, this week’s Feature Album on ABC Classic. Sir Simon and the orchestra perform, in ...