CD10/2010
Prague Symphony Orchestra
Zdeněk Košler
The Albert Hall, Nottingham
Recording: 13th February 1967
MusicWeb International
“[Košler’s] Tod und Verklärung gains in amplitude and expressive depth, Košler reserving the longest of lines for the work’s moving culminatory pages. Earlier he is plangent and the wind playing is notably communicative.”
“This [Dvořák] is a considered but highly personal view of the symphony.”
“The recording has been well realised […] well balanced and well caught by the microphone.”
—Jonathan Woolf, MusicWeb International, November 2011
| Track listing | Time | |
|---|---|---|
| Antonín Dvořák: Symphony no 8 in G major, op 88 | 38' 50" | |
| 1 | I Allegro con brio | 9' 47" |
| 2 | II Adagio* | 12' 42" |
| 3 | III Allegretto grazioso – molto vivace | 5' 51" |
| 4 | IV Allegro ma non troppo† | 10' 30" |
| 5 | Richard Strauss: Tod und Verklärung, op 24 | 24' 29" |
| Total time: | 63' 19" | |
*Sample extract (control with the Sound Sample tab at the top of the page)
†This track may be heard on the Sampler CD