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Dvorįk: Tone Poems

~ Antonin Dvorak (Composer), Simon Rattle (Conductor), Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra (Orchestra)
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  • Orchestra: Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
  • Conductor: Simon Rattle
  • Composer: Antonin Dvorak
  • Audio CD (4 Jul 2005)
  • SPARS Code: DDD
  • Number of Discs: 2
  • Label: EMI Classics
  • ASIN: B0009U55Z6
  • Other Editions: MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 131,400 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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This latest Rattle release was recorded live at the Philharmonie, Berlin, in March and June 2004 and captures the excitement and poetry of these rarely performed works. Known of course for the enormously popular "New World" Symphony and Slavonic Dances, Dvorák is the Czech Republic’s best-loved composer. He wrote these four tone poems written in 1896, towards the end of his life. In spite of their innocent-sounding names, they are actually based on the gruesome poems of the 19th-century poet Karel Jaromir Erben, who went on to become an icon of Czech literature.

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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Dvorak To Take Your Breath Away !, 29 Jul 2005
By Mr Alastair Bowie (Southwell, Notts United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
Who would ever have associated Rattle with Dvorak - especially the lesser known works ! Well we have another champion now. These are quite stunning performances with breathtaking orchestral playing and readings by Simon Rattle that are just so alive. I was brought up on the old Supraphon recordings of these tone poems dating from the 60's and 70's and wonderful they were (and still are) too with delightful playing and the "half drunk" brass sound that you only get from Czech performances. I was convinced they could not be bettered. I was wrong. These Simon Rattle performances are something else. Go for it - you won't be disappointed !
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3.0 out of 5 stars Lacking in character, 2 Jul 2006
By Marc Haegeman "Marc Haegeman" (Gent, Belgium) - See all my reviews
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I'd happen to be a lot less enthusiastic about Simon Rattle's recordings of Dvorak's magnificent tone poems, especially when confronted with the existing catalogue - Kertesz, Talich, Kubelik but also recently Harnoncourt come to mind.

What I find cruelly lacking in Rattle's approach is his reluctance to take any risks, avoiding all dramatic tension with a Berlin Philharmonic appearing stiffer and more immovable than ever. Too much is taken for granted here - the luxurious sound machine included - and that's exactly what this music doesn't need. Dvorak's poems need character before anything (even Nikolaus Harnoncourt with the superior Concertgebouw Orchestra understood that - just compare his "Water Goblin" with Rattle's) and as Andrew Huth in the excellent liner notes with this CD explains, Dvorak "was always anxious to be appreciated as a Czech artist" - and these symphonic poems are prime examples of Czech culture. Rattle and his plush but impersonal orchestra deliver very little in that respect, though. It's big, tame, and superficial, not helped by the rather undefined sound. Disappointing.
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12 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars LESSER KNOWN DVORAK BRILLIANTLY PLAYED, 31 Aug 2005
By Klingsor Tristan (Suffolk) - See all my reviews
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These are late works of Dvorak, written after all the symphonies and just before Rusalka. Yet, over the years, they have been curiously underrated. If they appeared at all it was usually as a fill-up to the symphonies once CDs made longer timings desirable. Thus, they turn up under Kertesz as a part of his wonderful and ground-breaking 60's survey of Dvorak's orchestral music. Also as part of Jarvi pere's recordings of the symphonies. The great Vaclav Talich was a master of these pieces. And recently the complete set appeared in fine performances under Harnoncourt with the Concertgebouw.

The reasons for their neglect are hard to figure out. They are all based on folk-style poems by Karel Erben, official archivist of the city of Prague in the middle of the Nineteenth Century. The poems are all dark and of a fairly Grimm nature, but they all have a strong narrative thrust. Dvorak sticks to these narratives pretty tightly as he tells the stories in music, even going so far as to indulge in some Janacek-like use of Czech speech rhythms, especially in The Golden Spinning Wheel. It was this that freed him up from the classical Viennese symphonic forms of the symphonies and perhaps led inevitably on to the full operatic drama of Rusalka.

They are all substantial pieces, running to around 20 minutes each. The music is just wonderful - all the melodiousness of the symphonies is here given even freer rein. And all his mature skills as an orchestrator come to fruition in wonderful colouring and shaping.

It is the latter aspect of Rattle's performances that will probably strike you first. He elicits magical playing from the Berlin Philharmonic, conjuring an amazing range of colours and tones as they follows the twists and turns of the stories to their usually grisly ends. Then you will be captivated by the sparkling and lithe way he manages to lift rhythms to give them real bounce and life - almost Beecham-like and he too was a fan at least of the Golden Spinning Wheel. Finally you will realise that, while the form of these pieces may be a more old-fashioned ballad structure rather than classical sonata-form, Rattle is fully alive to the importance of holding their shape and musical logic together.

Smashing performances of wonderful pieces. And worthy demonstration that the Berlin Philharmonic is back to its heyday as one of the great orchestras of the world.

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