Audio Recordings

Dvořák’s Serenade for Strings

This week’s Audio Flashback is Antonín Dvořák‘s Serenade for Strings, which TŌN performed outdoors with conductor Leon Botstein on September 12, 2020 as part of the “Out of the Silence” festival, presented with the Bard Music Festival (BMF) and the Fisher Center at Bard. In his concert notes on the piece, BMF Artistic Codirector Christopher H. Gibbs says that the work was composed in just 12 days in 1875, after Dvořák had won a grant from the Austrian government. “The carefree mood of the piece shows that the composer was freed ‘from anxiety in his creative work’ (the stipulated goal of the prize); he was also newly married and had recently become a father.” You can read Gibbs’ full notes on the Serenade by clicking here.