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Sir Charles Mackerras knows his Czech music; he was responsible in large measure for bringing awareness in this country of the wonders of Janáček’s operas, and, in these fine recordings, has brought the same flare and imagination to these well-known and popular works by Dvořák.
Dvorák: Symphonies 7-9 by Charles Mackerras released in 2002. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic.
Mackerras has a gift: he knows how to impart interpretive ideas without ever losing the spontaneity that makes both the music and his performances of it sound perennially fresh. Just listen to the way he shapes the opening of the Eighth’s slow movement, or to the tempo adjustments in the raucous coda.
At 80 years young, Charles Mackerras remains one of the great conductors of our era, not to mention one of the most unheralded. His unfailing musicality, intelligence, and sheer joy in performing communicates vividly in these two glorious performances, beautifully recorded live in September, 2005.
Sir Charles Mackerras leads the Philharmonia Orchestra in rousing live performances of Dvořák's 7th and 8th Symphonies.
Listen to Dvořák: Symphonies Nos. 7-9, an album by Los Angeles Philharmonic on TIDAL
Antonín Dvořák. Symphony #7 in D minor, Op. 70. Symphony #8 in G Major, Op. 88. Philharmonia Orchestra/Charles Mackerras. Signum Records SIGCD183 Live.
