Various - Dvo?�k: The Spectre's Bride

Performances of Dvo?�k�s music in cities all over Britain helped to ensure a continued demand for the works he wrote especially for that country. He composed the cantata The Spectre�s Bride during the period May-November, 1884, with the first performance taking place in Birmingham the following year. Tradition has it that Dvo?�k himself conducted the choir of around 400 voices and an orchestra of 150 musicians. There were many more performances of the cantata in Great Britain and the USA during the year following its premi�re. This helped secure Dvo?�k�s prominence and popularity among Anglo-American audiences, an advantage which has never really waned since.