Though Josef Suk's Second Symphony in C minor has received a number of recordings, his First Symphony in E major has so far received just a few: a well-played but lackluster account by Vaclav Neumann and the Czech Philharmonic, an earnest but deracinated reading by Dalia Atlas and the Philharmonia Hungarica, and this one with Tomás Netopil leading the Prague Symphony. Of the three, Netopil's performance is by far the best. While both Neumann and Atlas seem intent on making the most of the work's monumental architecture and ...
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Though Josef Suk's Second Symphony in C minor has received a number of recordings, his First Symphony in E major has so far received just a few: a well-played but lackluster account by Vaclav Neumann and the Czech Philharmonic, an earnest but deracinated reading by Dalia Atlas and the Philharmonia Hungarica, and this one with Tomás Netopil leading the Prague Symphony. Of the three, Netopil's performance is by far the best. While both Neumann and Atlas seem intent on making the most of the work's monumental architecture and expansive structures, Netopil concentrates instead on the work's heroic themes and lyrical expressivity. The work's opening and closing Allegros seem less pretentious and more heartfelt here than with Neumann while its central Adagio flows more naturally and much more lyrically here than with Atlas. Better yet, the work sounds more like the work of an ambitious student of Dvorák, which was what Suk was, than like the work of the bereft composer of the C minor Symphony, which he would...
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