Dvorák: Symphony No. 9 & The Hero's Song

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Urbánski’s recording with the newly renamed NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra [is] packed with incident. There is great ferocity to the timpani and brass volleys in an urgent first movement…punchy... — Gramophone Magazine, May 2017 More…

Release Date: 24th Feb 2017
Catalogue No: ALPHA269
Label: Alpha
Length: 61 minutes

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Dvořák: Symphony No. 9 in E minor, Op. 95 'From the New World'

Work length41:37

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NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra, Krzysztof Urbański
Recorded: 21-24 June 2016
Recording Venue: Laeiszhalle, Hamburg, Germany

I. Adagio - Allegro molto

Track length11:17

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II. Largo

Track length11:34

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III. Scherzo (Molto vivace)

Track length7:32

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IV. Allegro con fuoco

Track length11:14

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Dvořák: A Hero's Song, Op.111

Work length19:51

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NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra, Krzysztof Urbański
Recorded: 10 and 13 December 2015
Recording Venue: Laeiszhalle, Hamburg, Germany

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Following on from his critically acclaimed Lutosławski programme, the conductor Krzysztof Urbański pursues his collaboration with the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester et Alpha. The New World Symphony is a work that has always fascinated Krzysztof Urbański: ‘It was only when I studied Dvořák’s other symphonies that I came to understand the principal characteristic and strength of the Ninth: simplicity. I wanted to dig deeper, and so I examined the manuscript and parts used for the New York premiere. There I discovered things that changed my view of it, like the fact that the first four bars of the third movement shouldn’t be played on the repeat. That gives them a completely different meaning when they recur at the da capo . . . The coupling, the rare Hero’s Song, shows an entirely different side of Dvořák. The way he transforms the initial four-note motif to evoke so many varied feelings, from joy to tragedy, shows his immense compositional mastery.’

This new album will be released to coincide with the opening of the ElbPhilharmonie hall in Hamburg, where Urbański will be one of the leading figures. (from an interview with Julius Heile).

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May 2017

Urbánski’s recording with the newly renamed NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra [is] packed with incident. There is great ferocity to the timpani and brass volleys in an urgent first movement…punchy brass add a keen sense of drama…Urbánski propels the Allegro con fuoco finale passionately, enabling the listener to revel in Dvorak’s miraculous weaving together of themes from earlier movements

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