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Re: A Survey of the "New World" on SACD

Posted by Botanico92007 (A) on April 25, 2007 at 16:44:37

In Reply to: A Survey of the "New World" on SACD posted by madisonears on April 23, 2007 at 23:30:45:

For an authentically Czech performance on SACD there is the Vaclav Neumann Czech Philharmonic Orchestra recording on Exton available from Japan. The disc also includes the Symphonic Variations. The performance is outstanding with idiomatic Czech woodwind sound, superb string playing, tempi that always seem right, and rhythms correctly articulated in the Scherzo. The recording dates from 1995 and was done by Japanese engineers. The sound is not state-of-the-art, but allows the beauty and precision of the playing to come through. And the Czechs are not outplayed by the Chicagoans.

I have the old Bruno Walter recording on a 2-track tape. The sound is remarkably good. The players were a pickup orchestra (Columbia Symphony Orchestra) in Los Angeles, I believe. The performance is too laid-back for me, with transitions between the disparate sections of movements not handled as naturally as by Newmann, and the rhythms come off awkwardly in the scherzo. The conducting has the warmth that Walter was famous for.

I don't have the Fischer, but have been tempted to buy it. The Hungarians seem to know how to conduct Czech music, with Reiner and Szell being examples.

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