The “dumka” is a Slavic folk song or dance of a melancholy character.<br>
Dvorák’s magnum opus in the piano trio genre takes its name from its “dumka” movements, which he composed in Prague in 1890-91.<br>
After long hesitation Dvorák also prepared a piano reduction while he was in the United States in the summer of 1893.<br>
The previous year he had played the work on a forty-concert farewell tour of Bohemia with Ferdinand Lachner and Hans Wihan.<br>
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The editor of our new edition, Christoph Flamm, took the Simrock print as his starting point.<br>
However he also carefully distinguished between the various reissues and consulted Dvorák’s sketches as well as his piano reduction.<br>
A Critical Commentary provides detailed information on the work’s sources, tempo markings and formal divisions of the movements.<br>