Jeremy Siepmann, Stephen Gunzenhauser, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra - An Introduction To Dvorak Symphony No.9 From The New World '2002
| Artist | Jeremy Siepmann, Stephen Gunzenhauser, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra Related artists |
| Album name | An Introduction To Dvorak Symphony No.9 From The New World |
| Country | |
| Date | 2002 |
| Genre | Classical |
| Play time | 02:29:07 |
| Format / Bitrate | FLAC Stereo 482 Kbps
/ 44.1 kHz MP3 320 Kbps |
| Media | CD |
| Size | 588.54 Mb |
| Price | $4.95 |
Track list
CD 1
1. (00:02:38) Jeremy Siepmann, Stephen Gunzenhauser, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra - 1. A quiet beginning: sorrow, syncopation, and sequence
2. (00:00:58) Jeremy Siepmann, Stephen Gunzenhauser, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra - 2. Instrumental colour as a prime element: clarinets and bassoons, an outburs...
3. (00:00:33) Jeremy Siepmann, Stephen Gunzenhauser, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra - 3. The opening tune again, with different instrumental colouring; now flutes ...
4. (00:00:37) Jeremy Siepmann, Stephen Gunzenhauser, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra - 4. The first big surprise: strings, shattering drumbeats, shrieks from flutes...
5. (00:00:32) Jeremy Siepmann, Stephen Gunzenhauser, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra - 5. Cellos and basses take us into a new key while flutes and oboes dance in s...
6. (00:00:31) Jeremy Siepmann, Stephen Gunzenhauser, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra - 6. Horns, violas, and cellos introduce a new idea, soon to evolve into the ma...
7. (00:00:43) Jeremy Siepmann, Stephen Gunzenhauser, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra - 7. A tiny detail from the opening culminates in a wild drumming that heralds ...
8. (00:02:06) Jeremy Siepmann, Stephen Gunzenhauser, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra - 8. Introduction complete
9. (00:00:39) Jeremy Siepmann, Stephen Gunzenhauser, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra - 9. A solo horn introduces the main theme, perkily answered by bassoons and horns
10. (00:00:33) Jeremy Siepmann, Stephen Gunzenhauser, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra - 10. The theme moves to G major; answering phrase from flutes, oboes, bassoons...
11. (00:00:40) Jeremy Siepmann, Stephen Gunzenhauser, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra - 11. Long crescendo, tremolo strings, back to tonic and biggest statement yet ...
12. (00:01:36) Jeremy Siepmann, Stephen Gunzenhauser, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra - 12. Transition to the secondary theme through the use of sequence. Sonata for...
13. (00:00:35) Jeremy Siepmann, Stephen Gunzenhauser, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra - 13. Three-bar groupings and again the use of sequence, spelling out a chord
14. (00:00:18) Jeremy Siepmann, Stephen Gunzenhauser, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra - 14. The sequence continues to rise, and the four-bar phrase returns as the st...
15. (00:00:21) Jeremy Siepmann, Stephen Gunzenhauser, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra - 15. The first violins start off the next phrase, but the melodic shape is mor...
16. (00:00:10) Jeremy Siepmann, Stephen Gunzenhauser, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra - 16. The violins fall silent; the violas and cellos answer with a new figure, ...
17. (00:00:07) Jeremy Siepmann, Stephen Gunzenhauser, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra - 17. So now we have a two-tear group, made up of statement and answer
18. (00:00:06) Jeremy Siepmann, Stephen Gunzenhauser, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra - 18. The same thing again (though not quite the same)
19. (00:01:01) Jeremy Siepmann, Stephen Gunzenhauser, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra - 19. Transition complete. The secondary theme arrives, with French horns as 'b...
20. (00:00:19) Jeremy Siepmann, Stephen Gunzenhauser, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra - 20. The 'bagpipe drone' is taken over by cellos, with their insistently repea...
21. (00:00:58) Jeremy Siepmann, Stephen Gunzenhauser, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra - 21. The tune is taken up by cellos and double-basses, 'shadowed' by the secon...
22. (00:00:33) Jeremy Siepmann, Stephen Gunzenhauser, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra - 22. The violins continue a pattern of steady pairs, and the cellos and basses...
23. (00:00:26) Jeremy Siepmann, Stephen Gunzenhauser, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra - 23. Unexpectedly, we find ourselves back with the secondary theme. A new idea...
24. (00:00:34) Jeremy Siepmann, Stephen Gunzenhauser, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra - 24. Again we hear the shortened version of the secondary theme, followed by m...
25. (00:00:26) Jeremy Siepmann, Stephen Gunzenhauser, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra - 25. The suspense is heightened as everything slows down; a soft, still varian...
26. (00:00:47) Jeremy Siepmann, Stephen Gunzenhauser, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra - 26. This beautiful flute tune is said to resemble 'Swing Low, Sweet Chariot'
27. (00:01:16) Jeremy Siepmann, Stephen Gunzenhauser, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra - 27. A big crescendo leads to a final statement of the closing theme, bringing...
28. (00:01:09) Jeremy Siepmann, Stephen Gunzenhauser, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra - 28. The development section begins with a conversation between cellos, double...
29. (00:00:18) Jeremy Siepmann, Stephen Gunzenhauser, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra - 29. The beginning of the closing theme is taken up in turn by the horn, picco...
30. (00:00:18) Jeremy Siepmann, Stephen Gunzenhauser, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra - 30. Sequential chirping from the oboes based on the 'answering' part of the m...
31. (00:00:20) Jeremy Siepmann, Stephen Gunzenhauser, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra - 31. Much of the development comes from a diminution of the closing theme from...
32. (00:00:31) Jeremy Siepmann, Stephen Gunzenhauser, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra - 32. A tiny detail becomes a major ingredient, giving an agitated quality to a...
33. (00:00:38) Jeremy Siepmann, Stephen Gunzenhauser, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra - 33. Through a sequence of keys so quickly that it is hard to keep track of th...
34. (00:01:47) Jeremy Siepmann, Stephen Gunzenhauser, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra - 34. The main theme from massed cellos and double-basses, topped by two trumpe...
35. (00:01:04) Jeremy Siepmann, Stephen Gunzenhauser, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra - 35. After that major climax, we arrive at the threshold of the recapitulation...
36. (00:01:11) Jeremy Siepmann, Stephen Gunzenhauser, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra - 36. Dvorak flouts tradition by setting the secondary theme and the closing th...
37. (00:03:09) Jeremy Siepmann, Stephen Gunzenhauser, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra - 37. The tumultuous convulsion of the coda brings the first movement to its ep...
38. (00:00:21) Jeremy Siepmann, Stephen Gunzenhauser, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra - 38. Humpty Dumpty: putting the bits back together again
39. (00:11:37) Jeremy Siepmann, Stephen Gunzenhauser, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra - 39. First movement (complete)
40. (00:01:06) Jeremy Siepmann, Stephen Gunzenhauser, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra - 40. The very opening chords unmistakably herald the arrival of something special
41. (00:01:11) Jeremy Siepmann, Stephen Gunzenhauser, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra - 41. The role of instrumentation in setting the scene
42. (00:01:29) Jeremy Siepmann, Stephen Gunzenhauser, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra - 42. and in enhancing the quality of one of the most famous tunes in symphonic...
43. (00:01:09) Jeremy Siepmann, Stephen Gunzenhauser, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra - 43. The cor anglais is joined by the clarinet, creating a fascinating change ...
44. (00:00:24) Jeremy Siepmann, Stephen Gunzenhauser, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra - 44. For the closing part of the tune, there is another new sonority: cor angl...
45. (00:00:29) Jeremy Siepmann, Stephen Gunzenhauser, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra - 45. The closing bar is repeated by clarinets and bassoons, the horn adding a ...
46. (00:02:24) Jeremy Siepmann, Stephen Gunzenhauser, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra - 46. Back to the start to hear the whole of the story so far, this time withou...
47. (00:01:14) Jeremy Siepmann, Stephen Gunzenhauser, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra - 47. A change of scoring: the slow opening chords return, this time played by ...
48. (00:02:36) Jeremy Siepmann, Stephen Gunzenhauser, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra - 48. The changes in scoring are just beginning
49. (00:01:05) Jeremy Siepmann, Stephen Gunzenhauser, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra - 49. The flutes and oboes introduce a new tune, over hushed tremolo strings
50. (00:01:28) Jeremy Siepmann, Stephen Gunzenhauser, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra - 50. A memorable combination of continuous, asymmetrical melody with steady, m...
51. (00:01:33) Jeremy Siepmann, Stephen Gunzenhauser, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra - 51. Back in that woodland glade, the light and shadows have changed, revealin...
53. (00:00:00) Jeremy Siepmann, Stephen Gunzenhauser, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra - 53. An abrupt change of mood, much discussion and embellishment, and a hushed...
54. (00:00:00) Jeremy Siepmann, Stephen Gunzenhauser, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra - 54. Subjectivity and expertise; Sourek and Tovey disagree; onwards, into the ...
55. (00:00:00) Jeremy Siepmann, Stephen Gunzenhauser, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra - 55. Cue to whole movement
CD 2
1. (00:01:54) Jeremy Siepmann, Stephen Gunzenhauser, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra - 01. Dvorak, Beethoven, and the Scherzo, Dvorak purposely confuses the listene...
2. (00:00:21) Jeremy Siepmann, Stephen Gunzenhauser, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra - 02. Using a little fanfare, Dvorak further builds up expectation before revea...
3. (00:00:37) Jeremy Siepmann, Stephen Gunzenhauser, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra - 03. When the theme is revealed, we find that it is not exactly a tune
4. (00:00:25) Jeremy Siepmann, Stephen Gunzenhauser, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra - 04. Two little bursts of rhythm provide the seeds from which much of the move...
5. (00:00:23) Jeremy Siepmann, Stephen Gunzenhauser, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra - 05. It is the second half of the theme that dominates
6. (00:00:48) Jeremy Siepmann, Stephen Gunzenhauser, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra - 06. Back to the beginning to hear the whole of this opening section
7. (00:00:21) Jeremy Siepmann, Stephen Gunzenhauser, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra - 07. Without ever being remotely 'academic' or 'intellectual', there is much c...
8. (00:02:31) Jeremy Siepmann, Stephen Gunzenhauser, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra - 08. Dvorak 's very Czech love of combining conflicting rhythms, sometimes metres
9. (00:00:31) Jeremy Siepmann, Stephen Gunzenhauser, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra - 09. A clearly transitional passage, obsessed with the rhythmic tag that both ...
10. (00:01:07) Jeremy Siepmann, Stephen Gunzenhauser, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra - 10. Sooner than we may have expected, we seem to have arrived at the Trio sec...
11. (00:00:36) Jeremy Siepmann, Stephen Gunzenhauser, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra - 11. A new kind of tone quality sheds a subtly different light on the theme
12. (00:00:21) Jeremy Siepmann, Stephen Gunzenhauser, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra - 12. The flutes and oboes now chime in with an answering variant of the opening
13. (00:00:44) Jeremy Siepmann, Stephen Gunzenhauser, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra - 13. and the cellos and bassoons take up the original version of the theme.
14. (00:00:52) Jeremy Siepmann, Stephen Gunzenhauser, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra - 14. A false alarm: it was not the traditional Trio section at all, but rather...
15. (00:01:14) Jeremy Siepmann, Stephen Gunzenhauser, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra - 15. Soon, after a very rapid build the Scherzo proper does reach its final phase
16. (00:01:28) Jeremy Siepmann, Stephen Gunzenhauser, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra - 16. The orchestral texture thins dramatically, and we approach what this time...
17. (00:00:50) Jeremy Siepmann, Stephen Gunzenhauser, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra - 17. The Trio section is reminiscent more of the 'Old World' than the 'New'
18. (00:01:01) Jeremy Siepmann, Stephen Gunzenhauser, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra - 18. In the second half of the Trio, a new tune emerges, a kind of Slavonic waltz
19. (00:00:36) Jeremy Siepmann, Stephen Gunzenhauser, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra - 19. The main theme of the Trio returns against a much fuller orchestral backg...
20. (00:01:16) Jeremy Siepmann, Stephen Gunzenhauser, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra - 20. Then it is all a matter of repeats, until we reach the coda, which ends w...
21. (00:08:07) Jeremy Siepmann, Stephen Gunzenhauser, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra - 21. Third movement (complete)
22. (00:00:47) Jeremy Siepmann, Stephen Gunzenhauser, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra - 22. Like the first movement, the fourth begins not with its main theme but wi...
23. (00:00:49) Jeremy Siepmann, Stephen Gunzenhauser, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra - 23. The main theme: an imposing march, introduced by trumpets and trombones, ...
24. (00:01:01) Jeremy Siepmann, Stephen Gunzenhauser, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra - 24. The main theme, part two. A codetta-like passage closes off the march and...
25. (00:00:53) Jeremy Siepmann, Stephen Gunzenhauser, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra - 25. The 'transitional' theme, while outwardly contrasting, is actually a hidd...
26. (00:00:17) Jeremy Siepmann, Stephen Gunzenhauser, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra - 26. A point of future obsession
27. (00:00:17) Jeremy Siepmann, Stephen Gunzenhauser, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra - 27. The second half of this 'transitional* theme is given to the winds as soo...
28. (00:00:57) Jeremy Siepmann, Stephen Gunzenhauser, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra - 28. The 'obsession' takes root, with a ten-fold repetition, before the arriva...
29. (00:02:32) Jeremy Siepmann, Stephen Gunzenhauser, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra - 29. The hidden traps in sonata-form terminology: 'second main theme' vs. 'sec...
30. (00:01:24) Jeremy Siepmann, Stephen Gunzenhauser, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra - 30. The unexpected entry and subsequent ubiquity of 'Three Blind Mice'
31. (00:00:36) Jeremy Siepmann, Stephen Gunzenhauser, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra - 31. We meet the mice again, now in the cellos and double-basses, where they p...
32. (00:00:31) Jeremy Siepmann, Stephen Gunzenhauser, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra - 32. More 'Three Blind Mice' material
33. (00:00:19) Jeremy Siepmann, Stephen Gunzenhauser, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra - 33. The mice return to the basement, where the bassoons have joined the cello...
34. (00:00:19) Jeremy Siepmann, Stephen Gunzenhauser, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra - 34. Next, they are back with the clarinets, now joined by pizzicato violas, w...
35. (00:00:15) Jeremy Siepmann, Stephen Gunzenhauser, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra - 35. Now they return to the high winds, delicately trilling
36. (00:00:35) Jeremy Siepmann, Stephen Gunzenhauser, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra - 36. Relief, at last: the mice back off, making way for a reminder of the main...
37. (00:01:08) Jeremy Siepmann, Stephen Gunzenhauser, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra - 37. The mice yield to woodpeckers (clarinets); the main theme (or its opening...
38. (00:00:24) Jeremy Siepmann, Stephen Gunzenhauser, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra - 38. The triplets of the 'transitional' theme are now handed down through stri...
39. (00:00:28) Jeremy Siepmann, Stephen Gunzenhauser, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra - 39. Reminders of past movements begin to fly by, thick and fast, sometimes ve...
40. (00:00:23) Jeremy Siepmann, Stephen Gunzenhauser, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra - 40. In fact there are three bits of quotation going on here simultaneously
41. (00:00:14) Jeremy Siepmann, Stephen Gunzenhauser, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra - 41. The violas react every time the 'Goin' Home' theme is quoted by the winds
42. (00:00:35) Jeremy Siepmann, Stephen Gunzenhauser, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra - 42. The rhythm of the opening of the 'Goin' Home' theme dominates, transforme...
43. (00:01:55) Jeremy Siepmann, Stephen Gunzenhauser, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra - 43. The march theme reappears as a Mendelssohnian fairy; the main theme from ...
44. (00:01:06) Jeremy Siepmann, Stephen Gunzenhauser, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra - 44. We reach an interesting point: have we heard the beginning of the recapit...
45. (00:01:41) Jeremy Siepmann, Stephen Gunzenhauser, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra - 45. Perhaps this is it? Back for a reminder of the theme proper, as we first ...
46. (00:01:27) Jeremy Siepmann, Stephen Gunzenhauser, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra - 46. Tovey places the start of the recapitulation here
47. (00:01:51) Jeremy Siepmann, Stephen Gunzenhauser, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra - 47. The main theme recast in pathetic rather than heroic terms - and with mag...
48. (00:01:50) Jeremy Siepmann, Stephen Gunzenhauser, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra - 48. This unexpected crisis in confidence plays a major role in the overall dr...
49. (00:01:31) Jeremy Siepmann, Stephen Gunzenhauser, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra - 49. The main theme returns - not complete, but chopped up into shorter and sh...
50. (00:00:56) Jeremy Siepmann, Stephen Gunzenhauser, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra - 50. A glorious thematic stew; high drama, a powerful build-up... but then?
51. (00:01:27) Jeremy Siepmann, Stephen Gunzenhauser, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra - 51. The dramatic highpoint of the movement, an astonishing transformation, bu...
52. (00:01:09) Jeremy Siepmann, Stephen Gunzenhauser, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra - 52. The same chords again, this time blasted out by the entire wind and brass...
53. (00:01:43) Jeremy Siepmann, Stephen Gunzenhauser, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra - 53. Now we are into the finishing stretch, but the surprises continue to the ...
54. (00:01:06) Jeremy Siepmann, Stephen Gunzenhauser, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra - 54. Summary, context, and cue into the whole movement
55. (01:30:38) Jeremy Siepmann, Stephen Gunzenhauser, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra - 55. Fourth movement (complete)
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