Dvorak – Symphony No. 7 in D-Minor & Suite in A-Major

Budapest Festival Orchestra

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The 7th Symphony is among the greatest masterpieces. Symphonies, which start in a minor and end in a major key, like Beethoven’s fifth, Mahler’s first and many others take us from sadness to happiness, from tragedy to jubilation. But here Dvorák sustains the D minor to the very end: he turns to D major only in the final six bars! It is an extraordinary structure, an incredible development creating irresistible excitement. There are many hidden treasures among Dvorák’s works and it is a particular pleasure for me to present the beautiful Suite for Orchestra in A major on this disc. I think it should be performed more often in concerts, and I sincerely hope that this recording will inspire orchestras to extend their Dvorák repertoire with this composition of enchanting beauty, lyricism and freshness.

Iván Fischer

Tracklist

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1.
Symphony no. 7 in D minor op. 70 - Allegro maestoso
11:23
2.
Symphony no. 7 in D minor op. 70 - Poco adagio
10:11
3.
Symphony no. 7 in D minor op. 70 - Scherzo
07:45
4.
Symphony no. 7 in D minor op. 70 - Allegro
09:38
5.
Suite in A major, American, B 190 - Andante con moto
04:16
6.
Suite in A major, American, B 190 - Allegro
04:09
7.
Suite in A major, American, B 190 - Moderato alla Pollacca
04:49
8.
Suite in A major, American, B 190 - Andante
03:59
9.
Suite in A major, American, B 190 - Allegro
02:30

Total time: 00:58:40

Additional information

Label

SKU

30010

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Cables

van den Hul

Digital Converters

Grimm A/D DSD / Meitner DA

Mastering Engineer

Jared Sacks

Mastering Equipment

B&W 803 diamond series

Microphones

Bruel & Kjaer, Schoeps

Mixing Board

Rens Heijnis custom design

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Instruments

Original Recording Format

Producer

Hein Dekker

Recording Engineer

Hein Dekker, Jared Sacks

Recording location

The Palace of Arts Budapest Hungary 2010

Recording Software

Pyramix bij Merging

Recording Type & Bit Rate

DSD64

Speakers

Audiolab, Holland

Release DateJanuary 7, 2014

Press reviews

Gramophone

Iván Fischer is truly ‘one on his own’, a fund of fascinating interpretative ideas which, whether or not you always agree with them, invariably make musical sense. A refined and individual Seventh! It was a good idea to follow the ultimately exultant Seventh Symphony with a flowing, genial account of the still-too-rarely-played American Suite, a dance sequence that’s an ideal bedfellow, repertoire-wise, for the Slavonic Dances and Legends.

Hifi+

Fischer and the Budapest are a combination that continue deliver performances of taste, style and interpretive authenticity. The character and quality of this performance is imaginative and insightful and allows the full nature of this wonderful work to be explored by all who listen.

The Sunday Times

Fisher gaves his woodwind soloists plenty of time to luxuriate in Dvorak’s inexhaustible stream of melodic ideas, yet never driving the music (…)

Elsevier

Ivan Fischer en zijn orkest onderscheiden zich in deze muziek, alleen al door de smaakvol ouderwetse portamenti in de strijkers. Fischer’s Dvork is niet het einde van alle tegenspraak, maar wie wil meepraten moet deze cd in huis hebben.

Luister

Fischer weet het zo vanzelfsprekend te laten klinken dat het opeens volstrekt logisch is dat de Amerikanen een heuse hymne maakten van het hoofdthema van het Largo. Het is de kracht van de dirigent die louter geloof in muziek, in de klinkende noten. En het is de kracht van een orkest dat bereid is om de dirigent op zijn reis te volgen. Het is uiteindelijke de samenwerking die garant staat voor zulke adembenemende resultaten.

Pizzicato

Generell ist es der Sound dieser Interpretationen, der dem Ohr schmeichelt als die Interpretator ansich. (…)

Stereoplay

Vergessenes Juwel (…) Diese in DSD-Technik aufgezeichnete Mehrkanalproduktion unterstreicht wieder einmal die Faszination und den entfesselten Klangzauber einer perfekt aufgenommen SACD.

L’air du jour

Ivan Fischer, qui pour être hongrois n’en comprend pas moins la musique de ses voisins tchèques, ne se trompe pas et rend justice à cette œuvre difficile. Il y a dix ans, il avait enregistré déjà et très bien les Huitième et Neuvième symphonies, rééditées aujourd’hui chez Channel Classics. (…) Sa Septième est encore plus aboutie, ne serait-ce que parce que son Orchestre du Festival de Budapest a gagné en rondeur, en puissance, en virtuosité. Mais aussi parce qu’il sait traduire la fébrilité de la partition, son exaltation, sa richesse rythmique (le scherzo est une pure merveille) avec conviction. Pour les amateurs d’un Dvorak plus enjoué, l’aimable Suite Américaine sonne comme une récréation après cette sombre symphonie.

Musikzen

Il sait traduire la fébrilité de la partition, son exaltation, sa richesse rythmique (le scherzo est une pure merveille) avec conviction. (…)

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