Atsutada Otaka's "Fantasy for Organ and Orchestra" (1999) was commissioned by the Tokyo University of Fine Arts and Music receives its premiere recording on this disc.. It opens with powerful blasts from the organ while the orchestra floats about in an impressionistic world, the string harmonies very much like the rich combinations of Toru ...
Only two short years separate the composition of Dvorák's Eighth and Ninth symphonies, yet those two years saw drastic changes in Dvorák's life circumstances. Going from an underpaid and sometimes criticized court composer in Prague to a highly paid, much sought-after, almost deified celebrity in the United States, Dvorák took his mission to ...
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