Written during the summer of 1875, Antonín Dvořák’s Symphony No. 5 in F Major, Op. 76 is considered the first work in which Dvořák found his way to a new symphonic idiom. Its noticeable inflections of Bohemian folklore, accompanied by almost Schubertian phrases, infuse the symphony with light and give it buoyancy. Two of Dvořák’s many one-movement orchestral pieces, In Nature´s Realm Op. 91 and the Scherzo capriccioso Op. 66, serve as considerable, substantial encores. Karel Mark Chichon (OBE) is Chief Conductor of the Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern.
