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Mariss Jansons: Symphonie No. 9 Nouveau Monde
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(DVD - Code 2)
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'What l compose is and aIways remains Czech music,' asserted Antonín Dvor'k, and we the audiences who've been enraptured with the Ninth since its world premiere at New York's Carnegie Hall on 15 December 1893 are all the richer for it. After a fIeeting nod to Negro Spirituals and vaguely Native American rhythms, Dvor'k dug into his seemingIy bottomIess reserve of catchy melodies, foot-tapping rhythms, burnished brass intonations, meIIow woodwind lines and other Bohemian traits that wouId be unthinkable without the piIIars of Austro-Germanic music. 'I simply wrote down themes of my own invention and gave them elements typical of the music of the Negroes and Indians. I then used these themes as subjects, deveIoping them with alI the resources of rhythm, harmony and counterpoint, and with aII the coIors of the modern orchestra,' the composer once said. lnterestingly, the gaIIey proofs of the work were corrected by none other than Johannes Brahms. Of course, the work wouId most probably never have been written if it hadn't been for a patron, or patroness, to be more precise, Jeanette Thurber, who founded the NationaI Conservatory of Music of America and invited the composer to New York in the hope that he would give birth to a national American music; he had, after aIl, created a nationaI Czech music. |
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