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Antonín Dvorak - Symphony No. 9/The Water Goblin [Nikolaus Harnoncourt] (2000) (DVD-Audio ISO) [2001]

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Antonín Dvorak - Symphony No. 9/The Water Goblin [Nikolaus Harnoncourt] (2000) (DVD-Audio ISO) [2001]

Antonín Dvořák - Symphony No. 9/The Water Goblin [Nikolaus Harnoncourt] (2000) (DVD-Audio ISO) [2001]
DVD Audio Image (.ISO) = 3.63 GB | Complete Scans PDF (300 dpi): 5.25 MB | 5% Recovery Record | Watermarked
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Harnoncourt eschews tradition for tradition’s sake in the symphony. He approaches the score afresh, and the result is a reading both idiomatic and illuminating. Harnoncourt coaxes sparkling detail from the interplay of strings and woodwinds and allows the lower brass to come through cleanly. Trombones punch out the melody at the end of the first movement and the timpani strokes are crisp. The second movement flows gently, with beautiful playing from the woodwinds gliding over a lush, glowing surface of strings. There is no wallowing or point-making in this rendition of the famous largo. The references to Beethoven and Smetana in the fleet scherzo do not call attention to themselves, and the finale is urgent and majestic.

Taken as a whole, you have a refreshing and fully integrated performance, led sensitively from the podium and rendered with pin-point perfection by the Concertgebouw. There is absolutely no need to make any allowances for the orchestra's playing in this exciting live recording. The audience was clearly spellbound: it is completely inaudible.

It is useful to have The Water Goblin as a coupling - Dvořák’s first great tone poem following, on disc as in life, hard upon the heels of his last symphony. Dvořák returned to his homeland from his American sojourn and left his urge to write symphonies behind. Back in Europe, he abandoned the traditional four movement structure that he and his friend Brahms had done so much to keep alive, and embraced instead the symphonic poem of the avant-garde, a form pioneered by Liszt.

Delving into Bohemian folklore, Dvořák emerged with a clutch of gruesome tales which he painted in vivid orchestral colours as only Dvořák could. The Water Goblin, his first essay in the form, tells the story of a young peasant girl who is taken to wife by the evil, lake-dwelling goblin of the title. Held as a prisoner in her husband’s murky kingdom, she yearns to return to home to her mother. After much arguing and begging, the villain relents, but will only allow her to visit the upper world, and keeps their goblin child as a pledge of her return. You can guess what happens. She never returns to the lake, and the enraged goblin dashes their child to death on her mother’s doorstep.

Dvořák does not follow the tale literally, but recreates the events in sounds, using leitmotifs for each character and twisting them in Wagnerian ways to illustrate moods and emotions, as well as the action. Warner thoughtfully provides not only a brief note on the piece in the booklet notes, but also the programme note from the first performance in Munich in 1898 and explanatory extracts from a letter Dvořák wrote to Viennese critic Robert Hirschfeld in 1896.



Track listing

1. Dvorak : Symphony No.9 in E minor Op.95, 'From the New World' : I Adagio - Allegro molto – 11:22
2. Symphony No.9 in E minor Op.95, 'From the New World' : II Largo – 12:16
3. Dvorak : Symphony No.9 in E minor Op.95, 'From the New World' : III Scherzo - Molto vivace – 8:21
4. Dvorak : Symphony No.9 in E minor Op.95, 'From the New World' : IV Allegro con fuoco – 10:51
5. Dvorak : The Water Goblin Op.107 – 21:09



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Number of tracks: 5
Official DR value: DR14

Samplerate: 96000 Hz
Channels: 6
Bits per sample: 24
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NIKOLAUS HARNONCOURT



Antonín Dvorak - Symphony No. 9/The Water Goblin [Nikolaus Harnoncourt] (2000) (DVD-Audio ISO) [2001]



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