Dvorak Symphony No 5 Album (circa 1934-1937) with 5 Decca 78 Records

A CLASSICAL ALBUM WITH DVORAKS 5TH SYMPHONY CONSISTING OF 5 DECCA 78 RECORDS. THIS ALBUM WAS PRODUCED BY DECCA USA BETWEEN 1934 AND 1937.
 
Composed in 1875 Dvoraks 5th symphony has a length of 35 minutes. It has 4 movements or parts and was written for an orchestra making use of 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets (1st = bass clarinet), 2 bassoons, 4 horns, 2 trumpets, 3 trombones, timpani, triangle, and strings.
 
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SIZE: 36CM WIDE 32CM HIGH

CONDITION: ALBUM HAS A FEW SCRAPES. ALL 5 RECORDS IN GOOD CONDITION.
 
ANTONIN DVORAK (1841-1901)
Born on 8 September 1841 in a small village north of Prague, Antonin Leopold Dvořák was the eldest of 14 children. His father was a professional zither player, an innkeeper and a butcher. Folk music accompanied every family occasion, and young Antonin soon joined his father in the local band and served as an apprentice butcher.
Dvořák's first composing efforts received no critical reception or public performance. The self-critical composer even burned some of his early works. But his music did begin to attract the interest of the critic Eduard Hanslick and the composer Johannes Brahms who gave Dvořák's career a boost.
During his time in America, Dvořák produced three of his most famous works - the String Quartet No.12, known as the 'American', the Cello Concerto in B minor, and the 'New World' Symphony. When he premiered the symphony, critics disagreed over whether it was an all-American symphony or just more of Dvořáks usual Bohemian fare.
Dvořák died aged 62 from a stroke on 1 May 1904, following five weeks of illness. He left behind many unfinished works. In 1943, an American Liberty ship of the U.S. Navy was named USNS Antonín Dvořák in his honour.

DVORAKS 5TH SYMPHONY (1875):
Composed in 1875 it has a length of 35 minutes. It has 4 movements or parts and was written for an orchestra making use of 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets (1st = bass clarinet), 2 bassoons, 4 horns, 2 trumpets, 3 trombones, timpani, triangle, and strings.
Dvorák composed in 1875 in a mere five weeks his Fifth Symphony. It was however not published until 1888, 13 years after it was composed, with the reason being the publishers with whom Dvorak was often in conflict desire to market it as a mature composition.
The F-major 5th Symphony immediately announces itself, with a liquid song for the clarinets, as something new: lighter in sonority, more relaxed a pastoral symphony as opposed to the heroic pretensions of its predecessor. 
The finale comes as rather a shock: after all that rusticity and wit, suddenly a big, bold and decidedly serious statement, with plenty of thundering brass, that extends over 50-odd measures. 
 
DECCA RECORDS (1929-1998):
Decca Records is a music label that was founded in London in 1929 by Edward Lewis and Jack Kapp. 
Its US label was established in late 1934 by Lewis Jack Kapp, (the first president of the Decca Record company of the USA) and Milton Rackmil who later became American Decca's president too. In 1937, anticipating Nazi aggression leading to World War II Lewis sold American Decca, and the link between the UK and US Decca label was broken for several decades.The British label was renowned for its development of recording methods, while the American company developed the concept of cast albums. 
In 1947, following World War II, British Decca re-established distribution in the United States through its new subsidiary London Records. 
In 1973, the US Decca label became MCA Records and in 1998 the UK and US divisions of the former Decca label were combined under UMG (United Music Group).
 
78 RECORDS (1910-1940):
78 records, also known as 78s, are flat discs that were the standard format for phonograph records from 1910 to the 1940s: 
Size: 78s were typically 25cm in diameter.
Speed: 78s spun at 78 revolutions per minute (rpm). 
Material: 78s were made from shellac resin, a material that was scratch-resistant, moisture-resistant, and heavy. 
Sound quality: 78s captured the essence of early jazz, blues, and swing music. 
Playtime: 78s had a limited playtime of about three minutes per side. 
History: The first 78s were made in 1901, and they were originally sold in paper or card covers. 
Decline: 78s were eventually replaced by vinyl records, which were made from polyvinyl chloride (PVC) and came in a variety of sizes and speeds. 
 
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