Release Date: 11 January 2014
Label: Naxos - Dvd Audio / Naxos DVD Audio
Packaging Type: Blu-Ray Packaging
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 730099004664
Genres: Classical
Composer/Series: Dvorak
Description
Antonín Dvo?ák's huge popularity in England was built largely on the success of his Stabat Mater, which he had conducted there in 1884 and 1885. It was well suited to the country's choral traditions and led eventually to a commission for a Requiem, which was premièred in Birmingham in 1891. Written in ten months during tours to Russia, England and Germany, its success was immediate. Sitting closer to the tradition of Cherubini than Verdi, its tone is compassionate and reflective, devoid of unnecessary drama, and movingly crafted with great sophistication.Dvo?ák's Requiem is a work of humanity and compassion and has attracted a large number of recordings. There is the classic An?erl-directed one, and others conducted by Neumann, Sawallisch and Kertesz have long dominated the catalog since the 1960s and 70s onwards. Conductor Antoni Wit is a Naxos regular and a renowned interpreter of Slavic music - in the past he has also recorded Dvo?ák - the Piano Concerto on 8.550896 and the Czech Suite coupled with Hero's Song on 8.553005.
Tracklisting
Weiss:Falletta:Buffalo Po
Weiss:Buffalo Po:Falletta
Warsaw Phil:Choir:Wit
Various
Solos:Radio France Po:Inbal
Buffalo Po:Falletta
Baltimore So:Alsop
Warsaw Po & Choir:Wit
Hubert Rutkowski
Howick:Rahman
Grauwels:Mouradoglu
Eduard Brunner
Andras Csaki
Adriano Del Sal
Various
Various
