From the Lebrecht Album of the Week:
Comparisons in music are unfair. An ephemeral art cannot be measured and pinned, like a butterfly, to the page without risking mortal damage. Nevertheless, human beings possess critical faculties and spend much of their lives assessing whether A is preferable to B. Not necessarily better, just more apt to present circumstances.
I offer these caveats because I have been listening to Dvorak orchestral works from very different sources…
Read on here.
And here.
En francais ici.
Pictured: Dvorak in America.
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%20Steven%20Daverson%202024.JPG?w=670&resize=670,446&ssl=1 "Figures outside a Dacha, with Snowfall, and an Abbey in the Background: from Andrei Tarkovsky's Nostalghia to Steven Daverson's new work for orchestra and live electronics")
