(Leader, Paul Beard ), conducted by Clarence Raybould
From the Guildhall, Cambridge
Dvorak's Slavonic Rhapsodies were among the' first results of the introduction Brahms had given him to the Berlin publisher, Simrock. On Brahms's recommendation Simrock published Dvorâk's Moravian
Duets '. They were so Successful that Simrock asked for more pieces in the same vein. The immediate result was the first set of eight Slavonic Dances and the three Slavonic Rhapsodies for orchestra, of which Sir Donald Tovey has aptly said that they ' show his naive genius in its most amiable light'.