Songs My Great-Grandfather Taught Me
Transcriptions by Josef Suk of 30 Dvořák songs
DVOŘÁK, Antonín

Catalogue Number: TOCC0100
EAN: 5060113441003
Release Date: 08 February 2010
Duration: 60:02

Biblical Songs, Op. 99
Gypsy Songs, Op. 55
In Folk Tone, Op. 73
Love Songs, Op. 83
Lullaby, B194
Moravian Duets, Op. 32
Four Songs, Op. 82

Josef Suk, arranger
Josef Suk, violin
Josef Suk, viola
Vladimir Ashkenazy, piano

Antonín Dvořák has long been known as one of music’s supreme melodists, but his songs have not made quite the headway of his best-known works. Now 30 of them are given a new lease of life in transcriptions for violin and viola and piano by his great-grandson, Josef Suk – the viola pieces performed here on Dvořák’s own instrument, restored especially for this recording. With Josef Suk joined here by Vladimir Ashkenazy, this disc offers two of the world’s greatest musicians playing – together for the first time – some of its most beautiful music, in versions never heard before.

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See also:

• Gernsheim: Piano Quintets
• Jadassohn: Piano Trios 1–3
• Tovey: Chamber Music, Volume 1

Track Listing, MP3 Downloads & Streaming Samples

Track No.	Track Title/Details	Duration	Sample	Download Track
	Gypsy Songs, Op. 55 (1880) Antonín Dvořák, composer Josef Suk, arranger Josef Suk, violin Vladimir Ashkenazy, piano (first recording)	12:12
1	No. 1, 'My song of love rings through the dusk'	2:58
2	No. 2, 'Hey! Ring out my triangle'	0:55
3	No. 3, 'All around the woods are still'	2:23
4	No. 4, 'Songs my mother taught me'	2:09
5	No. 5, 'Come and join the dancing'	0:59
6	No. 6, 'Wide the sleeves and loose the trousers'	1:10
7	No. 7, 'Give a hawk a fine cage'	1:38
	In Folk Tone, Op. 73 (1886) Antonín Dvořák, composer Josef Suk, arranger Josef Suk, violin Vladimir Ashkenazy, piano (first recording)	5:01
8	No. 1, 'Goodnight'	2:23
9	No. 3, 'Oh nothing, nothing can change for me'	2:38
	Love Songs, Op. 83 (pub. 1880s) Antonín Dvořák, composer Josef Suk, arranger Josef Suk, violin Vladimir Ashkenazy, piano (first recording)	12:55
10	No. 1, 'Never will love lead us to that glad goal'	1:49
11	No. 2, 'Death reigns in many a human heart'	1:55
12	No. 3, 'I often wander past that house'	1:04
13	No. 4, 'I know that on my love to you'	1:56
14	No. 5, 'Nature lies peaceful in sleep and dreaming'	1:24
15	No. 6, 'Lonely in the forest I stand'	1:47
16	No. 7, 'When your sweet glances fall on me'	1:37
17	No. 8, 'Oh, my only dear one, but for you'	1:23
	Four Songs, Op. 82 (pub. 1888) Antonín Dvořák, composer Josef Suk, arranger Josef Suk, violin Vladimir Ashkenazy, piano (first recording)	2:27
18	No. 1, 'Leave Me Alone'	2:27
19	Lullaby, B194 (1895) Antonín Dvořák, composer Josef Suk, arranger Josef Suk, violin Vladimir Ashkenazy, piano (first recording)	1:43
	Biblical Songs, Op. 99 (1894) Antonín Dvořák, composer Josef Suk, arranger Josef Suk, viola Vladimir Ashkenazy, piano (first recording)	22:50
20	No. 1, 'Clouds and darkness are round about him' (Psalm 97)	1:57
21	No. 2, 'Thou art my hiding place and my shield' (Psalm 119)	1:43
22	No. 3, 'Give ear to my prayer, O God' (Psalm 55)	2:41
23	No. 4, 'The Lord is my shepherd' (Psalm 23)	2:26
24	No. 5, 'I will sing a new song unto thee, O God' (Psalm 144)	2:50
25	No. 6, 'Hear my cry, O God' (Psalm 61)	2:32
26	No. 7, 'By the waters of Babylon' (Psalm 137)	2:29
27	No. 8, 'Turn thee unto me, and have mercy upon me' (Psalm 25)	2:30
28	No. 9, 'I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills' (Psalm 121)	1:52
29	No. 10, 'O sing unto the Lord a new song' (Psalm 96)	1:50
	Moravian Duets, Op. 32 (1876) Antonín Dvořák, composer Josef Suk, arranger Josef Suk, violin Josef Suk, viola Vladimir Ashkenazy, piano (first recording)	2:54
30	No. 11, 'Captured'	2:54

Artists

Antonín Dvořák, composer

Josef Suk, arranger

Josef Suk, violin

Josef Suk, viola

Vladimir Ashkenazy, piano
[credit: Petr Novák, Wikipedia]