Recordings of Anton\u00edn Dvor\u00e1k\u2019s Biblical Songs are everything but few and far between. That the renowned Bach performer Klaus Mertens sings the ten songs in the original Czech version, however, is remarkable. His recording was preceded by an intensive study of the composer and the work. In his composition, Dvo?\u00e1k sets verses from the Kralice Bible, which was created at the heart of the Moravian Unity of Brethren at Kralice nad Oslavou, situated to the west of Brno, and which represents a constitutional document of the Czech language far beyond its religious significance. Its early Baroque style, rich in imagery, has a unique musicality to it. The Czech language is the starting point for the composition and its facture. Replacing the intended piano with an organ is legitimate not only because of the work\u2019s religious content, but even more so because of the compositional structure of the Biblical Songs. The second work on the present CD was written by the Czech composer Josef Klicka. Composed in 1917, the sonata for organ in F-sharp minor was considered lost for almost a century. The conditions for this project were ideal: Rohn explores the musical expression called for by Kli?ka in almost ideal manner at the Sauer organ at the Erl\u00f6serkirche Bad Homburg – the ideal instrument for this large-scale Romantic work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Recordings of Anton\u00edn Dvor\u00e1k\u2019s Biblical Songs are everything but few and far between. That the renowned Bach performer Klaus Mertens sings the ten songs in the original Czech version, however, is remarkable. His recording was preceded by an intensive study of the composer and the work. In his composition, Dvo?\u00e1k sets verses from the Kralice … Continue reading Anton\u00edn Dvor\u00e1k: |Biblical Songs<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4736,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1318,1315],"tags":[906,929,930],"class_list":["post-10141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-choir","category-music","tag-giovanni-pierluigi-da-palestrina","tag-opus-vocale","tag-volker-hedtfeld"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rondeau.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rondeau.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rondeau.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rondeau.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rondeau.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10141"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rondeau.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10142,"href":"https:\/\/www.rondeau.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10141\/revisions\/10142"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rondeau.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rondeau.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rondeau.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rondeau.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}