dvořákian

Example Sentences

• "Even the unashamed crib from Lohengrin in the middle section (D flat major) of the slow movement has a Dvořákian freshness, particularly when, as here, [Istvan] Kertesz adopts a fastish speed – faster than the score would strictly allow – and deliberately lightents the texture."
• "It is within the incidental music for the play Radúz a Mahulena (Radúz and Mahulena, later arranged in a suite entitled Pohádka [Fairytale]) that Suk’s early Dvořákian period ends and a new, original voice begins."
• "The Third Symphony is a bigger, brasher work: a brooding brass opening smacks of [Richard] Wagner, then begins shifting between Dvořákian hoedowns and hazy whole-tone harmonies."
• "Then put on Kubelik’s record, and see how often his reading differs by being considerably slower; and how often you accept his correction. I believe that a good many people, thorough Dvořákians at heart, will question Kubelik’s authority and reject his version of the parts, that is, where this question enters."
• "With such long sides (up to 38 minutes in Symphony No. 7) the sound is hardly refined, but these are rich, spontaneous-sounding performances which will give great pleasure both to newcomers, attracted by an amazing bargain, and to committed Dvořákians, who will relish Barbirolli’s unusual combination of expressiveness in detailed phrasing and strongly architectural control of longer spans."
• "After [Bedřich] Smetana’s death, his self-proclaimed descendants notably the composers [Zdeněk] Fibich, [Josef Bohuslav] Foerster and Ostrčil saw themselves as modernist underdogs in an unfair struggle with the Dvořákians, and upheld Smetana as an increasingly anachronistic model of Czech modernism."