Antonin Dvorak was a starving violist when he wrote his first set of Slavonic Dances, but the dances saved him financially. They were popular enough to create demand for a second set. Ivan Fischer ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. From the age of eight or nine Simon Rattle bought recordings by the Czech Philharmonic on the Czech national ...

Sir Simon Rattle dances with the Czech Philharmonic in this vibrant new recording of Antonín Dvořák’s Slavonic Dances, this week’s Feature Album on ABC Classic. Sir Simon and the orchestra perform, in ...

Some of Dvorak's most popular pieces are his Slavonic Dances. The orchestrated version is always popular, but the piano four hands version came first. Pianists Emanuel Ax and Yoko Nozaki play the ...

Slavonic Dances Series 2, Op 72 (Nos 10, 11 and 15)Slavonic Dances Series 2, Op 72 (Nos 10, 11 and 15) ...

The Houston Symphony announced today the international release of the orchestra's second commercial recording with Music Director Andrés Orozco-Estrada, which features Antonín Dvorák's Symphony No. 6, ...

(16) Slavonic Dances, Movements: No. 3 in A flat José Serebrier, Conductor Antonín Dvořák, Composer Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra (16) Slavonic Dances, Movements: No. 7 in C Bournemouth Symphony ...

Experience Classical - Slavonic dances, Series 1 Op 46 (No 3 in A-flat major, arr. Jirl Gemrot) - BBC Sounds Experience Classical Slavonic dances, Series 1 Op 46 (No 3 in A-flat major, arr. Jirl ...

Shaham and the IPO will also be performing Bedrich Smetana Vlatava (Moldau), Dvorák’s Slavonic dances, and Richard Strauss’s Four Symphonic Interludes from his 1924 comic Opera Intermezzo.

Dvořák would probably be accused of cultural appropriation these days, but the critic Louis Ehlert took an altogether more generous attitude to the Slavonic Dances: ‘Whoever discovers a precious jewel ...