The Love Connection
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Tucked into Antonin Dvorak's great Cello Concerto is a tune written 30 years earlier--one of many songs he composed in his youth for the first real love of his life.
And while that love was not to be, he continued to re-shape and re-work those early songs—including a final farewell in the Concerto, prompted by the woman’s death--the woman, who was his sister-in-law.
Join us for the story—and the music—on this week's Connections.
FEATURED RECORDINGS
WORK |
RECORDING |
Dvorak Cello Concerto |
Deutsche Grammophon DGG 447 413-2 |
Secrets of Dvorak’s Cello Concerto |
Sony 82876737162 |
Dvorak: Cypresses |
Somm SOMMCD 236 |
Dvorak: Love Songs (Kozena, soprano) |
Deutsche Grammophon DGG 463 472-2 |
Dvorak Chamber Music |
Vox CDX 5166 |
Suites and Serenades by Czech Composers |
Koch 3-1628-2 |
New Worlds of Dvorak |
W.W. Norton & Co. recording accompanying book, New Worlds of Dvorak [ISBN 0-393-04706-7] |