Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904).Bagatelles Op. 47 For Piano Quartet (2 Violins Violoncello Piano/Harmonium).Dvorak was working on his first series of Slavonic Dances when it was requested that he write a piece for a private circle of chamber enthusiasts musician friends with whom the composer occasionally performed as violist or Harmonium player. Over the course of a few days in May 1878 he produced…

Biblical Songs were composed in just 21 days in 1894. They were one of the few pieces of religious music that Dvorak composed and are believed to have been stimulated by the recent death of a number of his close friends including Tchaikovsky. The expressive text is partnered by a relatively simple musical setting: the beauty of the work is the way in which the composer articulates such a broad r…

From In The World Of Nature-Im Haine (In Nature Op.63) was a song-cycle written in 1882 for amateur performance. The five unaccompanied part-songs were settings of poems by the Czech poet Vitezslav Halek inspired by the countryside. No. 2 is loosely translated as ?Bells Ring At Dusk? and tells of the bells ringing to call people to Vespers at the end of the day. It is scored for SATB choir a c…

Par DVORAK ANTONIN. On 18 January 1887 Antonín Dvorák (1841–1904) started composing his Romantic Pieces for violin and piano, opus 75 (B 150), completing that version on 25 January. They were performed for the first time in a private house two days later, with the composer writing to his publisher in Berlin: ‘Played here yesterday and very well received.’ For this edition reference has been made…