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Josef Suk’s captivating Fantasy for violin and orchestra is the main item of interest here. Written the same year as his Asrael Symphony, the Fantasy
The greatest Czech artists have recorded this music, but they yield surprisingly little to JoAnn Falletta and her Buffalo players. If perhaps the winds aren’t
This is the sort of release that flies under the radar of most collectors, but really shouldn’t. Dvorák’s Czech Suite tends to fall into the
This is the first totally non-Czech recording of Suk’s tragic masterpiece, and it’s brilliant. In case you don’t already know the story, Suk wrote this
This is one smoking hot performance of Suk’s masterpiece, and I wouldn’t have expected it coming from Claus Peter Flor, a fine musician but one
Suk’s early Symphony in E not surprisingly sounds very much like updated Dvorák. It’s a tuneful, mostly sunny piece with some extremely beautiful melodies (particularly
This is Jakub Hruša’s third Supraphon disc of Dvorák’s lighter music, and it’s by far the best. He captures the string serenade’s lyrical flow just
Dvorák’s two early trios are less popular than the F-minor and Dumky because they supposedly reflect a certain immaturity with respect to handling of form,
Steven Isserlis first recorded Brahms’ cello sonatas for Hyperion in the mid-1980s with Peter Evans at the piano, in sensitive, forthright, and excellently engineered interpretations.
Dvorák’s sunny Violin Sonata is a typically lovely work of his maturity, written about the same time as the Violin Concerto, and this performance would
