For those that still love the standard repertoire but abhore the routine performances too often preserved on CD, here's a release to refresh even the most jaded palate. This Dvorak 9 conducted by Sylvain Cambreling is quite simply the most exciting, most beautiful, most unhackneyed account I've ever heard:
http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2012/Nov12/Dvorak_sy9_GC11421.htm (http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2012/Nov12/Dvorak_sy9_GC11421.htm)
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Dvorak-Sinfonie-Neuen-Janacek-Sinfonietta/dp/B005O7FST2/ref=dm_cd_album_lnk (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Dvorak-Sinfonie-Neuen-Janacek-Sinfonietta/dp/B005O7FST2/ref=dm_cd_album_lnk)
Cambreling's a conductor I'd love to see tackle more adventurous repertoire. He'd be great...
Quote from: Alan Howe on Monday 04 March 2013, 17:24
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Cambreling's a conductor I'd love to see tackle more adventurous repertoire. He'd be great...
........ conducting Raff? ;D
Undoubtedly!
Fibich!
Yep - that'd be good too.