Dvorak: Symphony No. 9; "From The New World"
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Composer: DvorakConductor: Alsop
Orchestra: Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2008-05-27
Music Label: Naxos
Soundtracks:
- Adagio - Allegro molto
- Largo
- Molto vivace
- Allegro con fuoco
Music reviews of Dvorak: Symphony No. 9; "From The New World"
Music Review: A fizzy reading with real personality -- Alsop's best foray into the 19th-century classics
Rating: 5 Stars
Marin Alsop is far from my favorite conductor, but her new CD of the Dvorak 'New World' doesn't deserve the lamebrained reviews it's gotten here so far. The program begins with a cheerful reading of the less-than-inspired Symphonic Variations. Ms. Alsop shows a deft touch throughout, but I have never been able to sustain enough interest in this work to get to the end, and I didn't this time.
Her 'New World' is appealing for one great virtue: it is unfussy and unpretentious. The mood is considerably lighter than in any other version I've ever heard. Instead of making the Scherzo sound rustically Czech, for example, Alsop takes it like a tarantella, whirling and light on its feet. The reviewer who implies that this is a studied account has rocks in his ears. It's practically effervescent -- clearly the conductor wants to pull us away from the kind of inflated interpretations one hears from big-name conductors in Vienna and Berlin.
The Baltimore Sym. backs her up with comitted playing, more lightweight at times than I'm used to hearing but skillful throughout. (I don't hear really talented woodwind or brass soloists, however.) After a truncated period under the great Yuri Temirakanov, ensemble sounds crisp, and one must say that Naxos has come a long way form its early use of third-rate Eastern Euroepan orchestras. As for shortcomings, Alsop can't maintain dramatic tension when the music gets soft, and her transitions tend to be mechanical rather than expressive. Still, this reading has a real personality and strikes me as one of her best.
Description of Dvorak: Symphony No. 9; "From The New World"
This recording by the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and Music Director Marin Alsop is the first of three discs of Dvor?k symphonies taken from live performances at Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall. The most popular of all Dvor?k's works, Symphony No. 9 `From the New World' makes an immediate appeal by virtue of a seemingly inexhaustible flow of melody and sparkling orchestration. Based on a melody he had composed earlier for men's chorus, I am a fiddler, the Symphonic Variations are one of the composer's most beautifully crafted and beguiling works.Dvorak, Antonin CDs
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