Dvorak - Symphony No.8, Symphonic Variations
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Label: LPO
Cat No: LPO0055
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Orchestral
Release Date: 31st May 2011
Contents
Artists
London Philharmonic OrchestraConductor
Sir Charles MackerrasWorks
Symphonic Variations, op.78Symphony no.8 in G major, op.88 B163
Artists
London Philharmonic OrchestraConductor
Sir Charles MackerrasAbout
There is no shortage of fine recordings of these two wonderful Dvořák works and Sir Charles Mackerras has recorded Dvořák’s complete orchestral oeuvre - first with EMI Eminence (copies of which are now hard to find) and, over the years, for Supraphon. More recently he also recorded a selection of Dvořák works with the Philharmonia Orchestra.
What these performances benefit from is the spontaneity of the live concert environment. Originally recorded for archive purposes by the London Philharmonic Orchestra, such recordings are impossible to overlook when the music making is as fine as it is here. Mackerras had a gift for uncovering the individual DNA in a composer’s music - and he did this with aplomb with Dvořák.
The Symphonic Variations show Mackerras’ complete understanding of Dvořák. The subtlety and lightness of touch he brings to the waltz episode contrasts with the control and care of the percussion balance in the Scherzo capriccioso.
His conducting of Symphony No.8 is sublime. Conductor and orchestra are at one and here Mackerras shows the ability to seemingly turn every phrase into a symphonic essay.
Recorded live at Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall, London, on 24 April 1992.
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