Today I heard the RSO play, and as much as I enjoyed it, they woke a dormant nostalgia for my friends in Orchestra di Santa Cecilia in Rome. Just as well, when he wrote this Cello Concerto, Antonin Dvorak had been living in the U.S. for quite a while, and put his attachment to the "old continent" into music. The melodies you hear, in fact, are from popular slavic, mediterranean, russian music...but (fun fact :-) also from gospel and cotton-fields songs. Enjoy!
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