Antonín Dvořák
and His Time

Antonín Dvořák und seine Zeit

From the Salzburg Festival 2004

A multi-layer project exploring songs by Antonín Dvořák, as well as Liszt, Mahler, Strauss, Burleigh, Farwell, Cadman, MacDowell, Ives, Grieg and Brahms

This project includes:

  • a concert program from the Salzburg Festival with:
    • works of visual art and photography
    • an essay by Jens Malte Fischer: “Vom Zauber der Menschlichen Stimme: Antonín Dvořák und das Liedschaffen seiner Zeit” (only in German)
    • an essay by Richard Wigmore: “Antonín Dvořák and the Songs of His Time”
    • all song texts in both English and German
    • biographies of the performers: Thomas Hampson, Barbara Bonney, Michelle Breedt, Georg Zeppenfeld and Wolfram Rieger

Concept by Thomas Hampson

Resources

concert-program

Antonín Dvořák and His Time (August 2004)

essay

Antonín Dvořák and the Songs of His Time

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