Abstract

Records

The article discusses some of the famous music recordings. "Die Himmel erzählen die Ehre Gottes," by Johann Sebastian Bach is one of the richest of the late cantatas, in which the most astonishing events take place within a framework of apparent regularity. One's attention is held throughout riot not only by the unceasing invention within each of the parts, but especially by the way each movement adds a distinctive, unitary block to a gradually accruing totality that opens out further with each new event until its completion in the final chorale. Czech music composer Antonin Dvorak's fourth symphony is a work of far greater subtlety and invention than is usually recognized, especially in its multitude of bright and original ideas of orchestral sound and harmonic detail.