Symphony No. 1, in D played by the BBC Orchestra
Leader, Paul Beard
Conducted by Julius Harrison
This evening's broadcast of Dvořák's
Symphony No. 1 in D is the first of a weekly series covering the five numbered symphonies. Dvořák wrote nine symphonies, the first four of which were discovered after his death and were therefore not included in the official numbering of the other five symphonies, published between 1881 and 1894. Dvořák had a wonderful sense of orchestra and was a great styhst, as will be seen in these five symphonies.