Classics Explained: Dvorak - Symphony No. 9, 'From the New World'

"Classics Explained: Dvorak - Symphony No. 9, 'From the New World' album by Jeremy Siepmann on Archodia Music"

Release Date: 2002-07-01T00:00:00.000000Z

  • An Introduction to … DVORAK Symphony No. 9, "From the New World": A quiet beginning: sorrow, syncopation, and sequence
  • An Introduction to … DVORAK Symphony No. 9, "From the New World": Instrumental colour as a prime element: clarinets and bassoons, an outburst by the French horn
  • An Introduction to … DVORAK Symphony No. 9, "From the New World": The opening tune again, with different instrumental colouring: now flutes and oboes
  • An Introduction to … DVORAK Symphony No. 9, "From the New World": The first big surprise: strings, shattering drumbeats, shrieks from flutes, oboes, and clarinets
  • An Introduction to … DVORAK Symphony No. 9, "From the New World": Cellos and basses take us into a new key while flutes and oboes dance in syncopation.
  • An Introduction to … DVORAK Symphony No. 9, "From the New World": Horns, violas, and cellos introduce a new idea, soon to evolve into the main theme.
  • An Introduction to … DVORAK Symphony No. 9, "From the New World": A tiny detail from the opening culminates in a wild drumming that heralds A Major event
  • An Introduction to … DVORAK Symphony No. 9, "From the New World": Introduction complete
  • An Introduction to … DVORAK Symphony No. 9, "From the New World": A solo horn introduces the main theme, perkily answered by bassoons and horns.
  • An Introduction to … DVORAK Symphony No. 9, "From the New World": The theme moves to G Major; answering phrase from flutes, oboes, bassoons.
  • An Introduction to … DVORAK Symphony No. 9, "From the New World": Long crescendo, tremolo strings, back to tonic and biggest statement yet of the main theme.
  • An Introduction to … DVORAK Symphony No. 9, "From the New World": Transition to the secondary theme through the use of sequence. Sonata form; satability and flux
  • An Introduction to … DVORAK Symphony No. 9, "From the New World": Three-bar groupings and again the use of sequence, spelling out a chord
  • An Introduction to … DVORAK Symphony No. 9, "From the New World": The sequence continues to rise, and the four-bar phrase returns as the standard unit.
  • An Introduction to … DVORAK Symphony No. 9, "From the New World": The first violins start off the next phrase, but the melodic shape is more compact.
  • An Introduction to … DVORAK Symphony No. 9, "From the New World": The violins fall silent; the violas and cellos answer with a new figure
  • An Introduction to … DVORAK Symphony No. 9, "From the New World": So now we have a two-bar group, made up of statement and answer.
  • An Introduction to … DVORAK Symphony No. 9, "From the New World": The same thing again (though not quite the same)
  • An Introduction to … DVORAK Symphony No. 9, "From the New World": Transition complete. The secondary theme arrives, with French horns as 'bagpipes'.
  • An Introduction to … DVORAK Symphony No. 9, "From the New World": The 'bagpipe drone' is taken over by cellos, with their insistently repeated G and D.
  • An Introduction to … DVORAK Symphony No. 9, "From the New World": The tune is taken up by cellos and double-basses, 'shadowed' by the second violins.
  • An Introduction to … DVORAK Symphony No. 9, "From the New World": The violins continue a pattern of steady pairs, and the cellos and basses introduce a new idea.
  • An Introduction to … DVORAK Symphony No. 9, "From the New World": Unexpectedly, we find ourselves back with the secondary theme. A new idea emerges.
  • An Introduction to … DVORAK Symphony No. 9, "From the New World": Again we hear the shortened version of the secondary theme
  • An Introduction to … DVORAK Symphony No. 9, "From the New World": The suspense is heightened as everything slows down
  • An Introduction to … DVORAK Symphony No. 9, "From the New World": This beautiful flute tune is said to resemble 'Swing Low, Sweet Chariot'.
  • An Introduction to … DVORAK Symphony No. 9, "From the New World": A big crescendo leads to a final statement of the closing theme
  • An Introduction to … DVORAK Symphony No. 9, "From the New World": The development section begins with a conversation between cellos, double-bases, and violins.
  • An Introduction to … DVORAK Symphony No. 9, "From the New World": The beginning of the closing theme is taken up in turn by the horn, piccolo, and trumpet.
  • An Introduction to … DVORAK Symphony No. 9, "From the New World": Sequential chirping from the oboes based on the 'answering' part of the main theme, now in thE Major
  • An Introduction to … DVORAK Symphony No. 9, "From the New World": Much of the development comes from a diminution of the closing theme from the exposition.
  • An Introduction to … DVORAK Symphony No. 9, "From the New World": A tiny detail becomes A Major ingredient, giving an agitated quality to an originally sunny tune.
  • An Introduction to … DVORAK Symphony No. 9, "From the New World": Through a sequence of keys so quickly that it is hard to keep track of them
  • An Introduction to … DVORAK Symphony No. 9, "From the New World": The main theme from massed cellos and double-basses, topped by two trumpets over tremolo violas
  • An Introduction to … DVORAK Symphony No. 9, "From the New World": After that major climax, we arrive at the threshold of the recapitulation
  • An Introduction to … DVORAK Symphony No. 9, "From the New World": Dvorak flouts tradition by setting the secondary theme and the closing theme in unexpected keys.
  • An Introduction to … DVORAK Symphony No. 9, "From the New World": The tumultuous convulsion of the coda brings the first movement to its epic close.
  • An Introduction to … DVORAK Symphony No. 9, "From the New World": Humpty Dumpty: putting the bits back together again
  • An Introduction to … DVORAK Symphony No. 9, "From the New World": First movement (complete)
  • An Introduction to … DVORAK Symphony No. 9, "From the New World": The very opening chords unmistakably herald the arrival of something special.
  • An Introduction to … DVORAK Symphony No. 9, "From the New World": The role of instrumentation in setting the scene...
  • An Introduction to … DVORAK Symphony No. 9, "From the New World": ...and in enhancing the quality of one of the most famous tunes in symphonic history.
  • An Introduction to … DVORAK Symphony No. 9, "From the New World": The cor anglais is joined by the clarinet, creating a fascinating change in the timbre.
  • An Introduction to … DVORAK Symphony No. 9, "From the New World": For the closing part of the tune, there is another new sonority: cor anglais plus bassoon.
  • An Introduction to … DVORAK Symphony No. 9, "From the New World": The closing bar is repeated by clarinets and bassoons, the horn adding a new touch
  • An Introduction to … DVORAK Symphony No. 9, "From the New World": Back to the start to hear the whole of the story so far, this time without commentary
  • An Introduction to … DVORAK Symphony No. 9, "From the New World": A change of scoring: the slow opening chords return, this time played by the winds alone.
  • An Introduction to … DVORAK Symphony No. 9, "From the New World": The changes in scoring are just beginning.
  • An Introduction to … DVORAK Symphony No. 9, "From the New World": The flutes and oboes introduce a new tune, over hushed tremolo strings.
  • An Introduction to … DVORAK Symphony No. 9, "From the New World": A memorable combination of continuous, asymmetrical melody with steady, march-like counterpoint.