Expanded Edition - Dvorak: Symphony No 9, Etc / Bernstein

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Label
Sony Masterworks
Release Date
July 27, 2004
Format
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      DVORAK, ANTONIN
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      Ny Philharmonic
    • PERFORMER
      Bernstein
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      July 27, 2004
    • UPC
      827969272923
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      SK92729
    • LABEL
      Sony Masterworks
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Orchestral & Symphonic
    Works ⌄

    1. I. Adagio - Allegro molto

      Composer: Antonín Dvořák

      Ensemble: New York Philharmonic

      Conductor: Leonard Bernstein

    2. II. Largo

      Composer: Antonín Dvořák

      Ensemble: New York Philharmonic

      Conductor: Leonard Bernstein

    3. III. Molto vivace

      Composer: Antonín Dvořák

      Ensemble: New York Philharmonic

      Conductor: Leonard Bernstein

    4. IV. Allegro con fuoco

      Composer: Antonín Dvořák

      Ensemble: New York Philharmonic

      Conductor: Leonard Bernstein

    5. Carnival, Op. 92, B. 169

      Composer: Antonín Dvořák

      Ensemble: New York Philharmonic

      Conductor: Leonard Bernstein

    6. No. 1 in C Major

      Composer: Antonín Dvořák

      Ensemble: New York Philharmonic

      Conductor: Leonard Bernstein

    7. No. 3 in A-Flat Major

      Composer: Antonín Dvořák

      Ensemble: New York Philharmonic

      Conductor: Leonard Bernstein

    8. Overture

      Composer: Bedřich Smetana

      Ensemble: New York Philharmonic

      Conductor: Leonard Bernstein

    9. Act I: Finale: Polka

      Composer: Bedřich Smetana

      Ensemble: New York Philharmonic

      Conductor: Leonard Bernstein

    10. Act II: Furiant

      Composer: Bedřich Smetana

      Ensemble: New York Philharmonic

      Conductor: Leonard Bernstein

    11. Act III: Dance of the Comedians

      Composer: Bedřich Smetana

      Ensemble: New York Philharmonic

      Conductor: Leonard Bernstein


There's no such thing as a "definitive" recording, but if there were, this one would come close to that imagined ideal. Its special qualities haven't dimmed a bit in the four decades since it was recorded, and every interpretive decision comes across with the inevitability of fate itself. First, you get the first-movement exposition repeat (very unusual for its time), then there's the very slow (but still very flowing) Largo, gorgeously played and far from the trudge-fest that Bernstein would make of it in his lousy later recording for DG. The scherzo goes like the wind, the fastest ever, and the finale offers simply the last word in excitement. If you don't own this performance in some form, then you don't know the "New World".

--David Hurwitz, ClassicsToday.com