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Dvorak was born in Nelahozeves near Prague where he spent most of his life. He studied music in Prague's Organ School at the end of the 1850s, and through the 1860s played viola in the Bohemian Provisional Theatre Orchestra which was from 1866 conducted by Bedoich Smetana.
From 1892 to 1895, Dvorak was director of the National Conservatory in New York City. The Conservatory was founded by a wealthy socialite, Jeannette Thurber, who wanted a well-known composer as director in order to lend prestige to her institution. She wrote to Dvorak, asking him to accept the position, and he agreed, providing that she were willing to meet his conditions: that talented Native American and African-American students, who could not afford the tuition, must be admitted for free. She agreed to his conditions, and he sailed to America.
It was during his time as director of the Conservatory that Dvorak formed a friendship with Harry Burleigh, who became an important African-American composer. Dvorak taught Burleigh composition, and in return, Burleigh spent hours on end singing traditional American Spirituals to Dvorak. Burleigh went on to compose settings of these Spirituals which compare favorably with European classical composition.
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Review: This album of arias will make sopranos realize instantly how neglected these Slavic masterpieces have been. Includes the complete 'Letter Scene' from Evgeny Onegin as well as the once-again-popular 'Rusalka' by Dvorak. Spectacular! Includes an expansive, newly engraved vocal score, printed on high-quality ivory paper; and a CD+G graphics-enabled compact disc with complete versions (with soloist) in digital stereo, followed by digital stereo orchestral accompaniments to each piece, minus the soloist.
Songlist: Evgeny Onegin, Act I, Scene 2, Queen of Spades, Act I, Scene 2, Rusalka - Song To The Moon
Voicing: Soprano
Style: Opera
Review: The late Robert Shaw, who died in January 1999, had a long and fruitful relationship with Telarc, spanning twenty years and producing 41 recordings, eleven of which have won Grammy Awards. The current recording is the final one to be made by the conductor. Included on the second disc is a spoken interview of Shaw made by National Public Radio's Martin Goldsmith, host of "Performance Today." The interview was made in November 1998, just after the recording sessions for the Dvorak Stabat Mater, and features Shaw discussing his career, this work, and the state of the choral art. Portions of the interview were originally broadcast over NPR on April 2, 1999. The Stabat Mater was written by Dvorak in direct response to personal and private grief when he began the work, in 1876, he and his wife had recently lost a baby daughter, who had lived only two days. Other work intervened requiring the composer to set the Stabat Mater aside, but he soon resumed it in 1877 after losing two more children in quick succession-a baby daughter to accidental poisoning, and his three-year-old son to smallpox. The work was premiered in Prague in 1880, by which time Dvorak had risen from obscurity and poverty to become an internationally known composer. In 1883, the London premiere of the Stabat Mater met with such success that Dvorak was invited to come to England to conduct the work. He did so, conducting an enormous orchestra and chorus in the Royal Albert Hall in 1884.
Songlist: Stabat Mater Dolorosa , Quis est homo, qui non fleret , Eja, Mater, Fons amoris, Fac, ut ardeat cor meum , Tui Nati vulernati , Fac me vere tecum flere , Virgo virginum praeclara , Fac, ut portem Christi mortem , Inflammatus et accensus, Quando corpus morietur , Robert Shaw Discusses Dvorak's Stabat Mater with Martin Goldsmith
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Song Name | Arranger | Composer | Artist | Item Title | Format | Trax | |
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"Tui Nati vulnerati" from Stabat Mater | Antonin Dvorak | Robert Shaw | Great Choral Classics | 1 CD | MORE DETAILS | ||
Eja, Mater, Fons amoris | Antonin Dvorak | Robert Shaw Chorus | Dvorak: Stabat Mater | 1 CD | MORE DETAILS | ||
Fac me vere tecum flere | Antonin Dvorak | Robert Shaw Chorus | Dvorak: Stabat Mater | 1 CD | MORE DETAILS | ||
Fac, ut ardeat cor meum | Antonin Dvorak | Robert Shaw Chorus | Dvorak: Stabat Mater | 1 CD | MORE DETAILS | ||
Fac, ut portem Christi mortem | Antonin Dvorak | Robert Shaw Chorus | Dvorak: Stabat Mater | 1 CD | MORE DETAILS | ||
Goin Home | Rosalind Hall | Antonin Dvorak | Choirs of Brigham Young University | The Road Home | 1 CD | MORE DETAILS | |
Goin' Home | Antonin Dvorak | Chor Leoni | Goin' Home | 1 CD | MORE DETAILS | ||
Goin' Home | Antonin Dvorak | Czech Boys' Choir | Boni Pueri (Good Boys) | 1 CD | MORE DETAILS | ||
Goin' Home | Antonin Dvorak | Cantabile - The London Quartet | Lullabyes and Goodbyes | 1 CD | MORE DETAILS | ||
Goin' Home | Antonin Dvorak | Cantus | That Eternal Day | 1 CD | MORE DETAILS | ||
Goin' Home | Antonin Dvorak | BYU Singers | The Pilgrim's Journey Home | 1 CD | MORE DETAILS | ||
Goin' Home | Paul Langford | Antonin Dvorak | Goin' Home | Sheet Music (SATB) | MORE DETAILS | ||
Goin' Home | Paul Langford | Antonin Dvorak | Goin' Home | Sheet Music (SAB) | MORE DETAILS | ||
Goin' Home - Songs of Home | W. Fisher | Antonin Dvorak | Oasis Chorale | Journey - The Road Home | 1 CD | MORE DETAILS | |
Going Home | Robert Prizeman | Antonin Dvorak | Libera | Angel Voices | 1 CD | MORE DETAILS | |
Going Home | Rollo Dilworth | Antonin Dvorák | Going Home | Sheet Music (SSATB) | MORE DETAILS | ||
Golden Meadows | Antonin Dvorak | Various Composers | Five Centuries of Choral Music Vol 2 | Songbook | MORE DETAILS | ||
Home to the Ash Grove | Earlene Rentz | Antonin Dvorak | Home to the Ash Grove | Sheet Music (SATB) | MORE DETAILS | ||
Home to the Ash Grove | Earlene Rentz | Antonin Dvorak / Jonathan Larson | Home to the Ash Grove | Sheet Music (SSA) | MORE DETAILS | ||
Inflammatus et accensus | Antonin Dvorak | Robert Shaw Chorus | Dvorak: Stabat Mater | 1 CD | MORE DETAILS | ||
Largo | Margaret Dryburgh | Antonin Dvorak | Grand Rapids Women's Chorus | Celebrating Time Together | 1 CD | MORE DETAILS | |
Quando corpus morietur | Antonin Dvorak | Robert Shaw Chorus | Dvorak: Stabat Mater | 1 CD | MORE DETAILS | ||
Quis est homo, qui non fleret | Antonin Dvorak | Robert Shaw Chorus | Dvorak: Stabat Mater | 1 CD | MORE DETAILS | ||
Robert Shaw Discusses Dvorak's Stabat Mater with Martin Goldsmith | Antonin Dvorak | Robert Shaw Chorus | Dvorak: Stabat Mater | 1 CD | MORE DETAILS | ||
Rusalka - Song To The Moon | Antonin Dvorak | Dvorak & Tchaikovsky | Opera Arias for Soprano | Songbook & CD | MORE DETAILS | ||
Songs My Mother Taught Me | Ken Owen | Antonin Dvorak | Choirs of Brigham Young University | The Road Home | 1 CD | MORE DETAILS | |
Stabat Mater Dolorosa | Antonin Dvorak | Robert Shaw Chorus | Dvorak: Stabat Mater | 1 CD | MORE DETAILS | ||
Steal Away | John Leavitt | Antonin Dvorak | Steal Away | Sheet Music (SATB) | MORE DETAILS | Yes | |
Steal Away | John Leavitt | Antonin Dvorak | Steal Away | Sheet Music (SAB) | MORE DETAILS | Yes | |
Te Deum, Op. 103: Te Deum Laudamus | Antonin Dvorak | Robert Shaw | Absolute Heaven | 1 CD | MORE DETAILS | ||
Te Deum: Aeterna Fac | Antonin Dvorak | Robert Shaw | Gloria: Music of Praise & Inspiration | 1 CD | MORE DETAILS | ||
Three Moravian Duets | Antonín Dvorák | Three Moravian Duets | Sheet Music (SATB) | MORE DETAILS | |||
Three Moravian Duets | Antonín Dvorák | Three Moravian Duets | Sheet Music (SA) | MORE DETAILS | |||
Tui Nati vulernati | Antonin Dvorak | Robert Shaw Chorus | Dvorak: Stabat Mater | 1 CD | MORE DETAILS | ||
Ukolebavka (Lullaby) | Anita Smisek | Antonin Dvorak | Ukolebavka (Lullaby) | Sheet Music (TTB) | MORE DETAILS | ||
Virgo virginum praeclara | Antonin Dvorak | Robert Shaw Chorus | Dvorak: Stabat Mater | 1 CD | MORE DETAILS |
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