COMPOSERS: Dvorak
LABELS: EMI Studio Plus
WORKS: Symphony No. 9 (New World); Symphony No. 8
PERFORMER: Berlin PO/Herbert von Karajan
CATALOGUE NO: CDM 7 64325-2 ADD (1977, 1979)
Vintage Karajan Dvorák and Wagner feature among new releases in EMI’s remastered Studio Plus series. In the late 70s in Berlin Karajan re-recorded Dvorák’s Eighth and Ninth (New World) Symphonies for the second and fourth times respectively. Mature, distinguished accounts, of urbane feeling and sweeping line. (No first-movement exposition repeat in the New World.) Ates Orga
Dvorak: Symphony No. 9 (New World); Symphony No. 8
Vintage Karajan Dvorák and Wagner feature among new releases in EMI’s remastered Studio Plus series. In the late 70s in Berlin Karajan re-recorded Dvorák’s Eighth and Ninth (New World) Symphonies for the second and fourth times respectively. Mature, distinguished accounts, of urbane feeling and sweeping line. (No first-movement exposition repeat in the New World.) Ates Orga
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4
Published: January 20, 2012 at 2:36 pm