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# Dvorak: Tone Poems

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Product description          Dvorak: Tone Poems [Audio CD] Antonin Dvorak; Simon Rattle and Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra             .com          By 1896, Dvorák had written some of his greatest works, including nine symphonies. Back from America, he was at the height of both his fame and his compositional power. Perhaps seeking a path less traveled, he wrote these four "orchestral ballads," as he called them, in quick succession, turning from his strict symphonic style to a more narrative, operatic form. However, his choice of literary inspiration can only be explained by his ardent patriotism: the poetry of Karel Jaromir Erben, an iconic Czech national poet. Archivist of Prague and collector of folk songs, he must have had a wild, perhaps folklore-influenced imagination. The poems are relentlessly gruesome and blood-thirsty, describing cruelty, mutilation, murder, suicide, and vengeance. That these horrors were alien to the warm-hearted composer is proved by his music. Although it illustrates character, atmosphere and every mood from drama and lamentation to exuberance, it is ravishingly beautiful. Its ardent, caressing lyricism, soaring melodies, inspired harmonies, daring modulations and ecstatic climaxes are literally breath-taking. Why these towering masterpieces are so rarely heard is a mystery; it is easy to ignore the grim literary content and surrender to the music, and the masterly, colorful orchestration must make them wonderful to play as well. Recorded live, the performance is superb: grand and sweeping yet sensitive to every timbral and expressive nuance, but the extreme, often sudden dynamic contrasts require a finger on the volume control. --Edith Eisler

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## Customer Reviews

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    The sound of the orchestra is stunning, but Harnoncourt provides greater fascination
  

*by A***D on Reviewed in the United States on July 14, 2011*

Let's straighten some things out.  Some reviewers find almost no merit in this set at all, while others find it to be a winner.  If you're trying to decide who to believe, I'm going to try to explain what is causing the differences in opinion.  Not that I'm the final word on the subject, of course!To begin, let me tell you that this recording features what has got to be the world's greatest orchestra with what was then their newly acquired conductor, Sir Simon Rattle.  And, in case there's any doubt, the Berlin Philharmonic can play like no other orchestra under the sun, with a big tone that is a joy to hear.  They also feature first desk soloists that are simply that best around.  That's going to be very apparent in this recording.  Rattle sure knows that his orchestra has a wide range of capabilities.  The range in dynamics is huge; he surrounds the listener with the big sound of the Berliners in the climaxes and lets his first desk soloists shine in the quiet, yet equally dramatic, soft passages.  I'm not sure what is more compelling, those exhilarating moments where everything is taken full throttle or the enchanting moments where the music is almost whispered.  You won't fall asleep, that's for sure, for Dvorak has incorporated a large amount of drama into the works.  Why don't we hear those poems more often?  They contain endless soaring melodies that are possibly even more satisfying than those of the symphonies.It's the qualities I mentioned above that will make listeners love this recording.  However, we still haven't explained what it is about this disc that makes some reviewers look upon it very critically.  Is this disc lacking anything?  Well, I guess you could say that it is.  What Rattle is unable to deliver is anything distinctively Bohemian.  You can give Dvorak more fun, more sparkling energy that goes beyond bigness of tone.  Perhaps more specifically, these works thrive when they're made light and airy.  In his readings of these symphonic poems with the Concertgebouw, Harnoncourt instills all these desired qualities.  As if though that's not enough, Harnoncourt is able to deliver nostalgia that washes over the listener in waves.  Overall, I think Rattle is probably the better conductor, but Harnoncourt simply is more interesting in Dvorak, who happens to be one of his best composers.  That's not to say that Rattle doesn't give any of these qualities; he's just not on the same level.To summarize, I find myself somewhere in between those who find this a failure and those who find it a winner.  There are certainly some very special moments, and the sound of the world's greatest orchestra never grows old.  On the other hand, Harnoncourt is more interesting all around.  I would recommend his recordings of the tone poems, coupled with the symphonies 7-9 and the piano concerto as the real recordings to have.

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    BARGAIN Dvorak witgh the BPO and Rattle
  

*by N***H on Reviewed in the United States on February 18, 2014*

02-18-2014  Here are 4  Symphonic Poems by the great Antonin Dvorak, written in his late years of 1896-97 and highlighting the Berlin Philharmonic , led by Sir Simon Rattle.  This 2 CD set, is offered by EMI, with fine sound and plenty of robust dynamics.  I picked it upc on this site, for about $1.70, and was very pleased with it's presentation.  They were recorded DDD in June 22004 in the Philharmonie.  I am new to the poems, having a Naxos readfing of three of the four as my only other disk, so, I will do my best to write an intelligent review.  please, bare withme.  First up, is the Golden Spinning Wheel, running for  27:50, it is the longest of the quartet, and like it's siblings, is scored for the typical Dvorak orchestraadding bass clainet, bells and an extra tubaas well as 2 trumpets, instead of the usual trio.  The New World Symphony has 3 trumpets.  Also like her siblings, this Golden Spinning Wheel wasd based on slavic mythology, which are fantastic and odd tales, demonstrating much creativity.  We hear the wonderful hunting horn sound right at thew start, with lively winds chirpping along.  The subtle use of percussion, cymbals and brums adds to the festive nature of this work.  The composer's style is clearly apparent from the first few seconds, melodic and rhythmic in every note. pinning Wheel is in 4 sections each about 6 to 8 minutes long and varying in tempo from  Molto vivace to lento.  The darkness of the mythological stories is not apparent in the music, just the composer's affection for his heritage.  Without entering into a detailed description, which they need for understanding, I will say that they deal with majic, spells, demons, heroes and very odd circumstances, but then, so do the tales from the Nordis Kalevala, used so effectively by Sibeliusand also ever so slighly in Wagners Ring saga.  I found it easier to simply listen to the use of the instruments and the overall tone of the story , than to try and catch every single refrence in the music to a pewrson, place or thing in these ancient campfire tales, long before they were written down.  Having already authored aLL HIS SYMPHONIES AND CONCERTI, THE ONLY famous work yet to come, chronologially remaing was the last opera, Ruslaka, premeired in 1900.  The cdoomposer died in 1904, so these poems represent a swan-song groupiung, so to speak.  The 3rd part, lento, opens with a stately figure in the full brass, with the rich addition of a second tuba, giving this beginning few bars a noble and impressive tone.  If you like Dvorak's Slavonic Dances, the Cello Concerto and the Symphonies, you'll enjoy these works filled as they are, with the full voice of this Bohemian master.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    magic
  

*by A***R on Reviewed in the United States on August 22, 2019*

this is wonderful music, and mostly little known, and rarely performed in the UK.

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