Dvorak: Symphonies Nos. 5 & 6

Šejna injects much freshness into this very attractive coupling. The Czech Philharmonic’s distinctive timbres are evident even through the recording’s compressed dynamic levels. — BBC Music Magazine, June 2018, 4 out of 5 stars

Release Date: 23rd Feb 2018
Catalogue No: DSD350142
Label: Praga
Series: Digitals

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Dvořák: Symphony No. 5 in F major, Op. 76

Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
Karel Šejan

Dvořák: Symphony No. 6 in D major, Op. 60

Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
Karel Šejan

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Karel Šejna is scarcely known in Europe. A solo double bass player with the Czech Philharmonic, he was selected by his peers in 1950 to succeed Rafael Kubelík who had moved to the West. He follows in the wake of Vacláv Talich and is an exemplary player of Dvorak and Mahler, whom he brilliantly vindicated with his Symphony No.4. This unusual pairing of Dvorak's symphonies features No.5, a relatively unknown work in the style of a Czech symphonic suite, and No.6, his first in the wake of Beethoven and Brahms which met with immediate success in Prague, Leipzig and London, but less with the Vienna Philharmonic which had, however, commissioned the work.

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June 2018

Šejna injects much freshness into this very attractive coupling. The Czech Philharmonic’s distinctive timbres are evident even through the recording’s compressed dynamic levels.

Dvorak: Symphonies Nos. 5 & 6

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