Petr Altrichter conducts Dvořák : Piano concerto in G / Rodney Greenberg, director ; RM Arts.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Greenberg, Rodney, film director.

Ardašev, Igor, 1967- instrumentalist.

Altrichter, Petr, conductor.

Symfonický orchestr hlavního města Prahy FOK, instrumentalist.

RM Arts (Firm), production company.

Language:

No linguistic content

Subjects (All):

Concertos (Piano).

Genre:

Internet videos.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 video file (45 min., 19 sec.)) : sound, color

Other Title:

Piano concerto in G

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : RM Arts, [1993]

System Details:

digital

video file

Summary:

Dvořák's brillant Piano concerto in G Minor, performed by the fiery Igor Ardašev. Born into a humble family settled in Nelahozeves, a village near Prague, Antonín Dvořák left school at the age of 11 to learn his father's trades, butcher and innkeeper. Thankfully, Antonín's precocious musical gifts are quickly noticed, and the young boy is sent to study at his uncles's plance in Zlonice, then to Prague from 1857 onwards. Playing the viola in the Prager Kappelle's orchestra, Dvořák familiarized himself with the classical and contemporary masterworks. Enjoying a well-established reputation from his peers and the internation audience, Dvořák is in his lifetime a Major figure on the musical scene. Invited in Germanay, in France, in the United Kingdom and in the United States, Dvořák eventually went back to his homeland to manage the Conservatory of Pragua. Dvořák, who died in 1904, left a considerable oeuvre which has ever since been performed on the stages worldwide. Composed in 1876, Dvořák's Piano concerto in G Minor is the composer's first attempt to appraoch this specific genre. Unlike most of the piano concertos in the classical repertoire, Dvořák's Concerto in G is not based upon a dramatical contrast between the soloist's instrument and the orchestra, but rather lies within a symphonic approach in which piano and orchestra go hand in hand in an joint movement. Premiered in 1878 by the pianist Karel Slavkovský, Dvořák's Piano concerto has been seldom performed. Thankfully, Igor Ardašev and the Prague Symphony Orchestra, under Petr Altrichter's baton, give the audience the chance to rediscover this piece full of Romantic fieriness.

Participant:

Igor Ardašev, piano ; Prague Symphony Orchestra ; Petr Altrichter, conductor.

Notes:

Recorded 1993 Alte Oper, Frankfurt, Germany.

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Contains:

Container of: Dvořák, Antonín, 1841-1904. Concertos, piano, orchestra, op. 33, G minor

OCLC:

956369853

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