Dvorak / Czech Philharmonic / Prague Symphony Orch - Symphonies 8 & 9 Legends & Slavonic Dances - Vinyl Record

"I am a great fan of Dvorks music, because it always seemed to me that apart from Mozart Dvork is the greatest composer... He wrote symphonies, he wrote tone poems, he wrote operas, he wrote chamber music, he wrote songs, he wrote religious music, everything... Hes just the greatest composer, except for Mozart perhaps." Sir Charles Mackerras not only loved Dvork and Czech music. As a globally renowned "non-Czech" conductor, he rendered it a great service. Among the numerous splendid recordings of Antonn Dvork's mature symphonic works, those made by Mackerras are the most fitting for a vinyl release: technically impeccable, they feature so authentic a "Czech" sound and spirit as to make many a Dvork compatriot envious... The album serves to prove how much young Mackerras learned in Prague from his teacher, Maestro Vclav Talich. Sir Charles's accounts of Symphonies Nos 8 and 9 are torrentially vivid, as performed by the superb Prague Symphony Orchestra under his baton. The selected Slavonic Dances and Legends (Cannes Classical Award 2003) breathe with nobleness and fervor, the quintessential attributes of the Czech Philharmonic.