Dvorak/Suk - Songs My Great-Grandfather Taught Me
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Label: Toccata Classics
Cat No: TOCC0100
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Chamber
Release Date: 14th December 2009
Contents
Works
Dvorak/SukGypsy Songs, Op.55
Dvorak/Suk
In Folk Tone, Op.73 (selection)
Dvorak/Suk
Love Songs, Op.83
Dvorak/Suk
Four Songs, Op.82: No.1, ‘Leave Me Alone’
Dvorak/Suk
Lullaby, b194
Dvorak/Suk
Biblical Songs, Op.99
Dvorak/Suk
Moravian Duets, Op.32: No.11 ‘Captured’
Artists
Josef Suk (violin, viola)Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano)
Works
Dvorak/SukGypsy Songs, Op.55
Dvorak/Suk
In Folk Tone, Op.73 (selection)
Dvorak/Suk
Love Songs, Op.83
Dvorak/Suk
Four Songs, Op.82: No.1, ‘Leave Me Alone’
Dvorak/Suk
Lullaby, b194
Dvorak/Suk
Biblical Songs, Op.99
Dvorak/Suk
Moravian Duets, Op.32: No.11 ‘Captured’
Artists
Josef Suk (violin, viola)Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano)
About
Transcriptions by Josef Suk of Dvorak Songs, with two of world’s greatest musicians appearing together – for the first time anywhere – playing an hour of ‘new’ Dvořák.
Josef Suk – the great-grandson of Antonín Dvořák – undertook these transcriptions of 30 Dvořák songs at the suggestion of Martin Anderson of Toccata Classics. Josef Suk had Dvořák’s own viola restored for the recording sessions, which took place in Prague at the beginning of September, 2009.
Suk’s transcriptions turn the songs into exquisitely beautiful instrumental miniatures.
Josef Suk has been the leading representative of the Czech violin school for six decades. His grandfather, also Josef Suk, was a member of the legendary Bohemian Quartet, Dvořák’s favourite pupil and also his son-in-law. Josef Suk is known not only as a lofty interpreter of the great concertos but also as an outstanding chamber musician. He officially retired from the public platform after the 2004 Prague Spring but has since made occasional appearances. He has recorded an enormous amount of the music of his great-grandfather, Antonín Dvořák, and this album of song transcriptions is an extension of that work. In making them he has been faithful to the originals, especially in the Biblical Songs. ‘I have done a little more in the Gipsy Songs’, he says, ‘but not in the piano, only in the violin’.
In the years since Vladimir Ashkenazy first came to prominence on the world stage in the 1955 Chopin Competition in Warsaw, he has built an extraordinary career, not only as one of the most renowned and revered pianists of modern times but as an artist whose creative life encompasses a vast range of activities and continues to offer inspiration to music-lovers across the world. Conducting has formed the largest part of his activities for the past twenty years. He took up the new position of Principal Conductor and Artistic Advisor to the Sydney Symphony Orchestra in January 2009 and collaborates with them on a number of exciting projects but still occasionally returns to the studio as a pianist, mainly for Decca.
Contents:
- Gypsy Songs, Op.55
No.1, ‘My song of love rings through the dusk’
No.2, ‘Hey! Ring out my triangle’
No.3, ‘All around the woods are still’
No.4, ‘Songs my mother taught me’
No.5, ‘Come and join the dancing’
No.6, ‘Wide the sleeves and loose the trousers’
No.7, ‘Give a hawk a fine cage’
- In Folk Tone, Op.73
No.1, ‘Goodnight’
No.3, ‘Oh nothing, nothing can change for me’
- Love Songs, Op.83
No.1, ‘Never will love lead us to that glad goal’
No.2, ‘Death reigns in many a human heart’
No.3, ‘I often wander past that house’
No.4, ‘I know that on my love to you’
No.5, ‘Nature lies peaceful in sleep and dreaming’
No.6, ‘Lonely in the forest I stand’
No.7, ‘When your sweet glances fall on me’
No.8, ‘Oh, my only dear one, but for you’
- Four Songs, Op.82: No.1, ‘Leave Me Alone’
- Lullaby, b194
- Biblical Songs, Op.99
No.1, ‘Clouds and darkness are round about him’ (Psalm 97)
No.2, ‘Thou art my hiding place and my shield’ (Psalm 119)
No.3, ‘Give ear to my prayer, O God’ (Psalm 55)
No.4, ‘The Lord is my shepherd’ (Psalm 23)
No.5, ‘I will sing a new song unto thee, O God’ (Psalm 144)
No.6, ‘Hear my cry, O God’ (Psalm 61)
No.7, ‘By the waters of Babylon’ (Psalm 137)
No.8, ‘Turn thee unto me, and have mercy upon me’ (Psalm 25)
No.9, ‘I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills (Psalm 121)
No.10, ‘O sing unto the Lord a new song’ (Psalm 96)
- Moravian Duets, Op.32: No.11 ‘Captured’
Josef Suk – the great-grandson of Antonín Dvořák – undertook these transcriptions of 30 Dvořák songs at the suggestion of Martin Anderson of Toccata Classics. Josef Suk had Dvořák’s own viola restored for the recording sessions, which took place in Prague at the beginning of September, 2009.
Suk’s transcriptions turn the songs into exquisitely beautiful instrumental miniatures.
Josef Suk has been the leading representative of the Czech violin school for six decades. His grandfather, also Josef Suk, was a member of the legendary Bohemian Quartet, Dvořák’s favourite pupil and also his son-in-law. Josef Suk is known not only as a lofty interpreter of the great concertos but also as an outstanding chamber musician. He officially retired from the public platform after the 2004 Prague Spring but has since made occasional appearances. He has recorded an enormous amount of the music of his great-grandfather, Antonín Dvořák, and this album of song transcriptions is an extension of that work. In making them he has been faithful to the originals, especially in the Biblical Songs. ‘I have done a little more in the Gipsy Songs’, he says, ‘but not in the piano, only in the violin’.
In the years since Vladimir Ashkenazy first came to prominence on the world stage in the 1955 Chopin Competition in Warsaw, he has built an extraordinary career, not only as one of the most renowned and revered pianists of modern times but as an artist whose creative life encompasses a vast range of activities and continues to offer inspiration to music-lovers across the world. Conducting has formed the largest part of his activities for the past twenty years. He took up the new position of Principal Conductor and Artistic Advisor to the Sydney Symphony Orchestra in January 2009 and collaborates with them on a number of exciting projects but still occasionally returns to the studio as a pianist, mainly for Decca.
Contents:
- Gypsy Songs, Op.55
No.1, ‘My song of love rings through the dusk’
No.2, ‘Hey! Ring out my triangle’
No.3, ‘All around the woods are still’
No.4, ‘Songs my mother taught me’
No.5, ‘Come and join the dancing’
No.6, ‘Wide the sleeves and loose the trousers’
No.7, ‘Give a hawk a fine cage’
- In Folk Tone, Op.73
No.1, ‘Goodnight’
No.3, ‘Oh nothing, nothing can change for me’
- Love Songs, Op.83
No.1, ‘Never will love lead us to that glad goal’
No.2, ‘Death reigns in many a human heart’
No.3, ‘I often wander past that house’
No.4, ‘I know that on my love to you’
No.5, ‘Nature lies peaceful in sleep and dreaming’
No.6, ‘Lonely in the forest I stand’
No.7, ‘When your sweet glances fall on me’
No.8, ‘Oh, my only dear one, but for you’
- Four Songs, Op.82: No.1, ‘Leave Me Alone’
- Lullaby, b194
- Biblical Songs, Op.99
No.1, ‘Clouds and darkness are round about him’ (Psalm 97)
No.2, ‘Thou art my hiding place and my shield’ (Psalm 119)
No.3, ‘Give ear to my prayer, O God’ (Psalm 55)
No.4, ‘The Lord is my shepherd’ (Psalm 23)
No.5, ‘I will sing a new song unto thee, O God’ (Psalm 144)
No.6, ‘Hear my cry, O God’ (Psalm 61)
No.7, ‘By the waters of Babylon’ (Psalm 137)
No.8, ‘Turn thee unto me, and have mercy upon me’ (Psalm 25)
No.9, ‘I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills (Psalm 121)
No.10, ‘O sing unto the Lord a new song’ (Psalm 96)
- Moravian Duets, Op.32: No.11 ‘Captured’
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