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| Dvorak: Complete Symphonies | 
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| Creators: Antonin Dvorak, Otmar Suitner, Berliner Staatskapelle
Label: Berlin Classics
Category: Music
List Price: $41.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 136428
Format: Box Set
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 5
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 5.2 x 5 x 0.9
UPC: 782124027827
EAN: 0782124027827
ASIN: B0007D0AX2
Release Date: June 28, 2005
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| Tracks:
Disc 1
| • | 1. Maestoso - Allegro | | • | 2. Adagio di molto | | • | 3. Allegretto | | • | 4. Finale. Allegro animato |
Disc 2
| • | 1. Allegro con moto | | • | 2. Poco adagio | | • | 3. Scherzo. Allegro con brio | | • | 4. Finale. Allegro con fuoco (alla breve) | | • | 1. Allegro moderato | | • | 2. Adagio molto, tempo di marcia | | • | 3. Finale. Allegro vivace |
Disc 3
| • | 1. Allegro | | • | 2. Andante sostenuto e molto cantabile | | • | 3. Scherzo. Allegro feroce | | • | 4. Finale. Allegro con brio | | • | 1. Allegro, ma non troppo | | • | 2. Andante con moto | | • | 3. Scherzo. Allegro scherzando | | • | 4. Finale. Allegro molto |
Disc 4
| • | 1. Allegro non tanto | | • | 2. Adagio | | • | 3. Scherzo (Furiant): Presto | | • | 4. Finale: Allegro con spirito | | • | 1. Allegro maestoso | | • | 2. Poco adagio | | • | 3. Scherzo. Vivace | | • | 4. Finale: Allegro |
Disc 5
| • | 1. Allegro con brio | | • | 2. Adagio | | • | 3. Allegretto grazioso | | • | 4. Allegro ma non troppo | | • | 1. Adagio - Allegro molto | | • | 2. Largo | | • | 3. Scherzo. Molto vivace | | • | 4. Allegro con fuoco |
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| Customer Reviews:
Sublime Dvorak Performances September 12, 2005
60 out of 61 found this review helpful
Yes, I know: the conventional wisdom still annoints Istvan Kertesz's late '60s Dvorak cycle on Decca as definitive. Yes, the Kertesz set still sounds wonderful forty years on, but here's a handsome alternative that costs just a fraction of the Decca. In fact, this set would be a steal at twice the price Edel is asking. Austrian-born Otmar Suitner was a pupil of the great Clemens Krauss, and a lot of that esteemed maestro's genius for idiomatically inflected, songful performance is present here. These are not hard-core, high-drama performances where every climax is rushed and dynamic contrasts are pushed out to Wagnerian extremes. Instead, Suitner reveals Dvorak's linkages to Schubert: the gorgeous melodies positively dance out of your speakers! Not that Suitner doesn't understand the drama of Dvorak's darker moments: the performance of the Seventh Symphony reminds anyone with ears to hear that Dvorak was a structurally disciplined Great Composer of tremendous range and depth, not just a charming peddler of folk tunes haphazardly thrown together. Perhaps my favorite performance is that of the still-neglected Sixth Symphony. Erich Leinsdorf -- another Austrian! -- virtually "owned" this symphony, producing magnificent recordings with the Cleveland Orchestra (1940s) and later with the Boston Symphony (1960s). Neither Leinsdorf recording is available today and I seriously regretted their absence until I heard Suitner. Like Leinsdorf, Suitner strikes the perfect balance between the requirements of song and structure in the first and last movements, unerringly shaping their stunningly dramatic climaxes. But Suitner never leaves you in doubt that the spiritual core of this symphony is its magnificent slow movement which he and the orchestra play in a way that can only be described as heart-stopping. True, the Berlin Staatskapelle (ca. 1985) is not as great an orchestra as Leinsdorf's BSO, Szell's Cleveland Orchestra or Kertesz's London Symphony. But they exhibit a wonderfully idiomatic sound that's just right for this music: lovely strings whose warm glow never overwhelms orchestral textures, and pert and tangy woodwinds that provide just the right amount of localized, rustic charm. The five discs are uniformly well-recorded, projecting a slightly diffuse but impactful orchestral sound that is transparent enough that individual instruments can be heard without unnatural spotlighting. Packaging is very attractive, if a bit austere: the five CDs are housed in a compact box with minimal liner notes. But what really matters here is that Suitner has produced a Dvorak cycle of character and charm which, in its present incarnation, you can buy for about the price of one premium CD ....
A natural Dvorakian October 21, 2007
12 out of 12 found this review helpful
Listening to this Dvorak symphony cycle, originally recorded between 1979 and 1982 and now reissued at an incredibly low price, I was put in mind of another conductor who took an unsentimental, unlingering approach to this composer yet had a natural feel for the idiom and allowed its charm and character to shine through--George Szell. If Szell had recorded a complete cycle, it might well have sounded something like this. Of course, Szell's Clevelanders would have produced playing of higher caliber, but Suitner's orchestra does itself proud; for me, they're more authentic sounding than the London Symphony under Kertesz in his "classic" cycle. This cycle wears very well, and at the price it's a no-brainer. Get it while it's still in print!
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