Dvorak Dumky Piano Trio Op90 BA9567 NEW

The dumka is a Slavic folk song or dance of a melancholy character.

Dvorks magnum opus in the piano trio genre takes its name from its dumka movements, which he composed in Prague in 1890-91. After long hesitation Dvork also prepared a piano reduction while he was in the United States in the summer of 1893. The previous year he had played the work on a forty-concert farewell tour of Bohemia with Ferdinand Lachner and Hans Wihan.

The editor of our new edition, Christoph Flamm, took the Simrock print as his starting point. However he also carefully distinguished between the various reissues and consulted Dvorks sketches as well as his piano reduction. A Critical Commentary provides detailed information on the works sources, tempo markings and formal divisions of the movements.

Urtext edition reflecting the latest musicological research

Detailed preface (Ger/Cz/Eng) and Critical Commentary (Eng) by the editor

Contains previously unknown music (draft version of dumka no. 3)

(Replaces earlier edition H1551)