Great Conductors
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The LSO plays out of its skin for the composer; Falstaff is brilliantly characterised, the Symphony has serious intensity. Fair sound for the vintage, with some harshness in the Symphony. —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 16th February 2009
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Building a Library, October 2016, Historic Choice
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Special offer. Elgar conducts Elgar
RecommendedBeatrice Harrison (cello)
London Symphony Orchestra, New Symphony Orchestra, Edward Elgar
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Presto Recording of the Week, 14th January 2008
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Building a Library, July 2005, Historic Choice
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Building a Library, July 2002, Historic Choice
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Václav Talich conducts Dvorak's Slavonic Dances
Recorded on 27th and 28th November, 1935 in EMI Abbey Road Studio No. 1, London
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Václav Talich
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2009, Re-issue of the Month
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Toscanini is a near-impossible act to follow. But then in a sense he was fortunate.
He didn't have a fat record catalogue full of Rostrum Greats to live up to and he wasn't under pressure to... — -
These are simply marvellous accounts of two of Dvorák's most popular symphonies. Mark Obert-Thorn is both Producer and Audio Restoration Engineer and has done a simply wonderful job of transferring... —
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Sibelius Première Recordings
World première recordings, 1932-34
The Philadelphia Orchestra, Finnish National Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Leopold Stokowski, Georg Schnéevoigt, Serge Koussevitzky
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The CPO brass lunge towards the main melody with unconstrained eagerness, their impact much aided by smiling glissandos. And as Talich and his players climb aboard Smetana's home-spun melody,... —
