Dvořák: Symphony No. 9
Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra, Claus Peter Flor
the performance as a whole displays such unfailing purpose, sensitivity and freshness of new discovery that I felt I was encountering the music for the first time...The SACD sound throughout...
Dvořák: Symphony No. 9
Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra, Claus Peter Flor
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the performance as a whole displays such unfailing purpose, sensitivity and freshness of new discovery that I felt I was encountering the music for the first time...The SACD sound throughout...
About
Following their acclaimed recordings of Dvořák’s Symphonies Nos. 7 and 8, Claus Peter Flor and the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra come to his Symphony No.9 ‘From the New World’.
Since its première, Symphony No. 9 has remained one of his most popular works. It was composed in America and, in the words of the composer, uses ‘simply written original themes embodying the peculiarities of the Indian music’, developing them ‘with all the resources of modern rhythms, harmony, counterpoint and orchestral colour.’
Dvořák performed the overture Můj domov (My Home) at the Czech première of the Ninth. Part of the incidental music for a play, the overture is based on two popular songs, one of which, Kde domov můj (Where Is My Home), would later become the Czechoslovakian national anthem.
Another of Dvořák’s ‘nationalistic’ works appears here – the light-hearted Czech Suite, consisting of five movements, all based on the dance rhythms of Bohemia, Moravia and Central Europe.
Contents and tracklist
- Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra
- Claus Peter Flor
- Recorded: September 2010
- Recording Venue: Dewan Filharmonic PETRONAS, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
- Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra
- Claus Peter Flor
- Recorded: August 2009
- Recording Venue: Dewan Filharmonic PETRONAS, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
- Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra
- Claus Peter Flor
- Recorded: August 2009
- Recording Venue: Dewan Filharmonic PETRONAS, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Awards and reviews
February 2013
the performance as a whole displays such unfailing purpose, sensitivity and freshness of new discovery that I felt I was encountering the music for the first time...The SACD sound throughout is superb, gloriously ripe, most judiciously balanced...I derived enormous pleasure from this release and feel sure you will too.
April 2013
this will be one for collectors of the series, and I can guarantee it doesn’t disappoint on any level...I love the orchestra’s clean sound and rich resonance, the strings are silky smooth, winds musical and tastefully stylish in terms of vibrato, the brass superbly tuned and powerful where power is demanded.
