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Dvorak : Symphonic Poems

Nikolaus Harnoncourt Audio CD
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On Friday 2 October 2009 Nikolaus Harnoncourt was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award at the annual Gramophone awards ceremony in London.

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  • Audio CD (27 Mar 2006)
  • SPARS Code: DDD
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: CLASSICAL
  • ASIN: B00009AHLT
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 114,804 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Disc: 1
1. Dvorįk : The Golden Spinning Wheel Op.109
2. Dvorįk : The Noon Witch Op.108 : I Allegretto
3. Dvorįk : The Noon Witch Op.108 : II Andante sostenuto e molto tranquillo
4. Dvorįk : The Noon Witch Op.108 : III Allegro
5. Dvorįk : The Noon Witch Op.108 : IV Andante
Disc: 2
1. Dvorak : The Water Goblin Op.107
2. Dvorįk : The Wild Dove Op.110

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2CD -Repackaged-/W/Harnoncourt, Royal Concertgebouw Orchest

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
By Colin Fortune VINE™ VOICE
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This collection of Dvorak's late symphonic poems is the clear winner (by a nose!) in a field that has some very hot competition. Classic performances by Talich Dvorak The water goblin Vol7 and Kubelik Dvorák-Slavonic Dances Op. 46 & 72; Overtures; Symphonic Poems have been front-runners in their time (and they are still remarkably fine performances) but this "twofer", sold by Amazon as a superb bargain, presents a stunning recording of the Royal Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra in the finest and most natural of modern sound. Harnoncourt's interpretations are masterly.

Present day competition comes from a one-disc compilation on Superaphon of Sir Charles Mackerras' recordings over the past few years Dvorak - Symphonic Poems and Sir Simon Rattle's Berlin Philharmonic "twofer" on EMI Dvorák - Tone Poems. Both are also very well recorded, and Rattle's, at slightly slower speed than Mackerras but at broadly similar tempi to Harnoncourt, rich and rounded. But the Harnoncourt has a particular quality of absolute rightness throughout that is hard to fathom but is certainly there.

Take the end of "The Wood Dove". Where Rattle produces lovely quiet playing from the BPO and a melancholy that is almost sweet, Harnoncourt's sadness is that of exhaustion and emptiness, and this is produced by a slightly faster tempo and slightly less "sympathetic" phrasing in the strings.
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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars One of Harnoncourt's very best recordings 7 Mar 2010
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Nikolaus Harnoncourt, now 80, has had an esteemed career in both the concert hall and in recordings even though his sometimes too personal approach can render a recording either inert or wayward. A good example of the latter is his recording of Bruckner's Symphony No. 5 Bruckner - Symphony No 5 which is wonderful when Harnoncourt adopts a hands-off style but fails when he interjects his misguided ideas about pacing and stop and go tactics, especially in the finale.

Thankfully, Harnoncourt does none of this with Dvorak's symphonic poems The Golden Spinning Wheel, The Noon Witch, The Water Goblin and The Wild Dove. Here, in contrast to the Bruckner, his pacing is so expansive it takes two disks to capture everything he and the wonderful Concertgebouw Orchestra have to say about this music. While Charles Mackerras squeezed all four of these tone poems onto a single Supraphon disk Dvorak - Symphonic Poems in his new recording with a total time of 79:46, it takes Harnoncourt and Concertgbouw 82 minutes to get it all done. Since this twofer is a two for one proposition usually available at a discount from Amazon vendors, you won't overpay for it.

If you're not familiar with this part of Dvoark's orchestral ouevre, the four symphonic poems were composed in succession during 1895-96 (they are opus 107-110 and Burghauser Nos. are 195-198) at the same time as the composer's string quartets. Exploiting the poetry of Czech author Karel Erben, Dvorak created what amounts to four Grimm's fairy tales full of childhood trepipation, fear and foreboding.
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By I. Giles TOP 50 REVIEWER
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There have been several significant steps in the introduction and development of fine recordings of these wonderful pieces and I have been with them all of the way!

Firstly the story starts with two ground-breaking Supraphon collections by Chalabala and Ancerl. These alerted the collecting world including myself to Dvorakian wonders beyond the later symphonies. Next came Kertesz with a great technical step forward using Decca technology and the world class dramatic playing of the LSO. This was followed by Kubelik on DGG with more of a Slavonic feel built in and provided by his Bavarian orchestra. That was followed by Jarvi's accounts which were initially issued as additional atems to the individual discs ot the symphonies. The symphonic poems are now available separately as a 'twofer.' Now we have Harnoncourt and the current culmination of this progressive development.

Harnoncourt provides all the drama of Kertesz coupled with some of the Slavonic awareness of Kubelik plus his own probing mentality which searches out even more of the orchestral detail of these scores aided by the playing on the great Dutch orchestra. This combination gives the works something of a symphonic feel. This is a fine new addition to the previous fine recordings from the preceding generations and no-one buying it is likely to be disappointed. More likely they will be caught up in Dvorak's wonderful musical imagination as he sets these stories with unforgettable music. The recording is very fine too.

I would not wish to be without either the Kertesz or the Kubelik recordings and I still treasure them for their special insights but if pressed to own just one I might easily plump for this group with Harnoncourt or the 'twofer' with Jarvi.
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