Slavonic Dances

Album by Antonín Dvořák & Chamber Orchestra of Europe & Nikolaus Harnoncourt

Slavonic Dances is a set of piano four-hands pieces by Czech composer Antonín Dvořák, composed and first published in 1878 and subsequently arranged for orchestra. Drawing on Bohemian and wider Slavic dance rhythms and folk idioms, the works combine lyrical melody, energetic rhythmic drive and colourful orchestration and occupy a key place in Dvořák's output as pieces that brought his music to a broader European audience.

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  1. 1.
    8 Slavonic Dances, op. 46, b. 83: no. 1 in C major
    4:07
  2. 2.
    8 Slavonic Dances, op. 46, b. 83: no. 2 in E minor
    5:00
  3. 3.
    8 Slavonic Dances, op. 46, b. 83: no. 3 in A-flat major
    5:21
  4. 4.
    8 Slavonic Dances, op. 46, b. 83: no. 4 in F major
    7:14
  5. 5.
    8 Slavonic Dances, op. 46, b. 83: no. 5 in A major
    3:15
  6. 6.
    8 Slavonic Dances, op. 46, b. 83: no. 6 in D major
    4:40
  7. 7.
    8 Slavonic Dances, op. 46, b. 83: no. 7 in C minor
    3:22
  8. 8.
    8 Slavonic Dances, op. 46, b. 83: no. 8 in G minor
    3:57
  9. 9.
    8 Slavonic Dances, op. 72, b. 147: no. 9 in B major
    4:23
  10. 10.
    8 Slavonic Dances, op. 72, b. 147: no. 10 in E minor
    5:53
  11. 11.
    8 Slavonic Dances, op. 72, b. 147: no. 11 in F major
    3:36
  12. 12.
    8 Slavonic Dances, op. 72, b. 147: no. 12 in D major
    5:44
  13. 13.
    8 Slavonic Dances, op. 72, b. 147: no. 13 in B-flat minor
    2:39
  14. 14.
    8 Slavonic Dances, op. 72, b. 147: no. 14 in B major
    4:06
  15. 15.
    8 Slavonic Dances, op. 72, b. 147: no. 15 in C major
    3:22
  16. 16.
    8 Slavonic Dances, op. 72, b. 147: no. 16 in A-flat major
    6:40

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