Dvořák - 'From the New World'
CD - This 2004 recording, featuring a live performance of Dvořák's beloved New World symphony, celebrated both the inauguration of Mariss Jansons as chief conductor of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and the debut of the orchestra’s new independent label RCO Live.
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Performers
Mariss Jansons, conductor
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Press quotes
‘In this Dvorák centenary year, you will not hear a finer or more thrilling performance’
‘This recording shows that the Union between Mariss Jansons and the Royal Concertgebouw is a marriage made in heaven’
- Geoffrey Norris, The Daily Telegraph
‘full of textural subtlety, with wonderful gradings of dynamics and phrasing, and a slow burning intensity’
- Andrew Clements, The Guardian
‘this edition offers the most beautiful rendition of the Largo to have ever been captured’
- Jan Anton Brouwer, Luister