Spectre's Bride, The / Storm, The

2 CD - Label: Supraphon - SU35742212 - Spectre's Bride - Dvorak, Antonin - Orchestra: Czech Philharmonic - Conductor: Jaroslav Krombholc

A definitive recording of a rare work. Dvorak's beauty at it's best! Not many in stock!!
Dvorak's The Spectre's Bride Following the successful British performances of Dvorak's oratorios and liturgical works, the publisher Novello invited the composer to write “something secular of about an hour-duration” for one of the forthcoming English Choir Festivals. The result was the dramatic Cantata The Spectre's Bride (Svatebni Kosile) Op.69, which Dvorak based on the poem version by Karel Jarosmir Erben (1811-1870) of an ancient Slavonic legend about a maid who is seduced towards her death by the ghost of her deceased lover but is redeemed through her prayers to the Virgin Mary. Dvorak followed Erben’s poem closely in his setting for Soprano (the maid); Tenor (the Spectre); Bass-baritone (narrator) with full four-part SATB chorus and symphony orchestra. After its successful premiere performance (with a choir of 500 conducted by the composer) in Birmingham in 1885, Dvorak claimed it as the work “that surpasses all my previous successes.”

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