DVD - Antonin Dvorak: Requiem (Importado)

Arthaus Musik presents a historical recording and an outstanding performance of this choral masterpiece conducted by Václav Neumann - for the first time on DVD. Dvorák had a close affinity with church music from his earliest days. At the age of 16 he transferred to the "Prague Organ School", where he received a thorough grounding in church music. His first job as organist at St. Adalbert?s Church in Prague provided the young composer and his wife with much-needed financial security. During this period, most of his output consisted of church music, and as a practising Catholic he was keen to revive the moribund Bohemian tradition in this field. However, as it turned out, his major religious works in addition to the Requiem - the 149th Psalm, Te Deum and Stabat Mater - were not written for church performance but rather for the concert hall.