Composer of the Week - Antonin Dvorak - Farewells

Donald Macleod explores Dvorak's last months in America, a period marred by the deaths of this father and his great friend, the conductor Hans von Bulow. The music includes the composer's Biblical Songs - written in the immediate aftermath of his bereavements - as well as the composition that was to prove his final farewell to his adopted home: the virtuosic Cello Concerto in B minor. Dvorak, arr. Art Tatum: Humoresque in G flat Art Tatum (piano) ASV CDAJA5164 - Tr 15 Biblical Songs (excerpts) Brian Rayner Cook (baritone) Scottish National Orchestra Neeme Jarvi (conductor) CHANDOS CHAN9002 - Trs 4-6 Cello Concerto in B minor, Op 104 Pierre Fournier (cello) Berlin Philharmonic George Szell (conductor) Deutsche Grammophon 4394842 - Trs 1-3.