Composer(s): Dvořák, Antonín
Artist(s): Veselka, Stefan
Label: Naxos
Genre: Instrumental
Period: Romantic
Catalogue No: 8.557478
Barcode: 0747313247820
Release Date: 05/2004

DVORAK: Suite in A Major, Op. 98 / Scottish Dances, Op. 41

Although Dvořák’s piano works are perhaps the least known of all his music, he wrote imaginatively and attractively for the instrument and created some of his best known works such as the two sets of Slavonic Dances and the Legends originally for piano duet. The solo piano works were mainly intended as short dance or atmospheric movements, alternating between passion and intimacy, exuberance and lyricism, for performance in the concert hall rather than the salon. This final disc of Dvořák’s Complete Published Solo Piano Music features the Suite, Op. 98, begun a few weeks after the première of the New World Symphony and subsequently revised and orchestrated as the American Suite, one of Dvořák’s most popular and frequently performed works.

Tracklist

Dvořák, Antonín
Veselka, Stefan (piano)
1Polka in E Major (Tempo di polka), B. 301:57
Veselka, Stefan (piano)
Veselka, Stefan (piano)
2Scottish Dances (Vivace in D Minor), Op. 41 (B. 74)05:38
Veselka, Stefan (piano)
Veselka, Stefan (piano)
3Humoresque in F-Sharp Major, B. 138 (version for piano)02:17
Veselka, Stefan (piano)
Veselka, Stefan (piano)
4Impromptu (Allegro scherzando in D Minor), B. 12904:44
Veselka, Stefan (piano)
Veselka, Stefan (piano)
5I. Moderato04:33
Veselka, Stefan (piano)
6II. Molto vivace03:22
Veselka, Stefan (piano)
7III. Allegretto04:03
Veselka, Stefan (piano)
8IV. Andante03:21
Veselka, Stefan (piano)
9V. Allegro02:36
Veselka, Stefan (piano)
Veselka, Stefan (piano)
10No. 1. Lullaby in G Major03:16
Veselka, Stefan (piano)
11No. 2. Capriccio in G Minor02:42
Veselka, Stefan (piano)

Total Playing Time: 38:29