Aus der Neuen Welt

Dvořák wrote the Ninth during three years directing a conservatory in New York, listening hard to spirituals and to what he was told of Native American music, and missing Bohemia throughout. The slow movement's cor anglais tune was mistaken for a folk song almost immediately, which is the highest compliment it could have been paid. Before it come Janáček's ballad Des Spielmanns Kind and Václav Trojan's Pohadky for accordion and orchestra.