Dvorák -Symphony No. 9

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra | Format: MP3 Download

Product Details

• Performers: Antonin Dvorak, Mariss Jansons
• Composers: Antonin Dvorak
• Conductors: Mariss Jansons
• Original Release Date: September 1, 2004
• Label: RCO Live
• Copyright: 2004 RCO Live
• Total Length: 41:19
• Genres: Classical/Symphonies
• ASIN: B000QZXAGU
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #172,156 Paid in MP3 Albums (See Top 100 Paid in MP3 Albums)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars And Suddenly at the Top of the Competition...., October 11, 2005

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Grady Harp (Los Angeles, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Dvorák: Symphony No. 9 ("From the New World") [Hybrid SACD] (Audio CD)

Mariss Jansons at the helm of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra seems to be a marriage made in heaven. Though there are countless recordings of the redoubtable Symphony No. 9 'From the New World' of Antonin Dvorák (including some superb and timeless performances), suddenly all others pale in the splendor of this new Hybrid SACD release from Rco Live. Jansons goes for the majesty of the work, allowing all of the folk tune influences that are the core of Dvorák's works to sing but never to take front stage form the grand architectural sweep of the symphony.

The brilliance of the Royal Concertgebouw is legendary and here it virtually glows in the sonics of the performance. Each section is exceptional and first desk solos are among the finest on record. There is an urgency to the rapid movements and a warm mellow flow to the Adagio and the Largo movements. Jansons apparently has found the comunicative niche with this orchestra and we can only expect great things to follow.

This is a wondrous recording of a symphony too often dismissed as 'too popular'. Recommended without reservation. Grady Harp, October 05

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Broad and unabashedly Romantic, October 8, 2005

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Pater Ecstaticus (Norway) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Dvorák: Symphony No. 9 ("From the New World") [Hybrid SACD] (Audio CD)

This performance of Dvorak's Ninth Symphony by the Koninklijk Concertgebouworkest under Mariss Jansons takes it more as a Romantic symphony in the vein of Schubert, underplaying the lilt and dance-rhythms of Bohemia/Czechia, Dvorak's own beloved homeland, focussing more on large, Romantic gestures. As such, I believe it couldn't be played more beautiful, and with a feeling for the over-arching, grand melodic lines, but there certainly are alternatives that are at least as good, like for example Rafael Kubelik's recording with the Berliner Philharmoniker (1973).
I guess that first and foremost this performance is for aficionados of the Koninklijk Concertgebouworkest under its new chief conductor (of which I am certainly one). Anyhow, this is a beautiful, lushly recorded and nicely idiosynchratic performance.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A middle-of-the-road reading redeemed by gorgeous orchestral playing, April 4, 2009

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This review is from: Dvorák: Symphony No. 9 ("From the New World") [Hybrid SACD] (Audio CD)

Two of our five-star generals among the Top Critics have weighed in already, one describing Jansons' "New World" as fast (it isn't), the other spouting a rave while saying nothing about the performance. Sigh. As anyone with ears knows, Jansons has always been a conductor of moderate temperament -- perhaps even more so in Amsterdam -- so it's no surprise that this reading is conventionally paced. Its contours are fairly soft, the Scherzo is too elegant to be a real Czech furiant, and the finale is more sonorous than dramatic.

But the playing is far from concventional. The Royal Concertgebouw, while not outdoing their excellent recording under Harnoncourt (on Teldec), play with their accustomed luster and depth. The orchestra's house label captures the reading in clear, vivid sonics, although we aren't placed quite close enough for maximum ipact.

There are many great recordings of this thrice-familiar work -- my favorites include the above mentioned Harnoncourt, Bernstein with the NY Phil., Fricsay, and Reiner. All display more originality and thrust than Jansons' account, but given the fineness of the playing and the recorded sound, this is a commendable account, too.