Your two favourite DVORAK and TCHAIKOVSKY SYMPHONIES

[Beef Oven!]

Tchaikovsky 3

Dvorak 6

(today, tomorrow different ones )

[Barbirollians]

Dvorak 8
Tchaikovsky 5 ( sorry Caliban )

[Bryn]

4 and 8

[Roehre]

Today: Dvorak 7 and Tchaikovsky 5

[antongould]

I have this evening got to know No 4 from your Rowicki set, triggered by hearing the scherzo the other week on CD Review in the early Neumann/Prague Supraphon issue... I spent a while comparing extracts from the Czech recordings, other classics (Kubeilk, leaden-footed, not feroce, in the scherzo ... Kertesz...) but plumped for the Rowicki. What lovely sound and playing and interpretation!


I can completely see why you say that jayne.

I can't stop listening to this! Stunning sound!

I must now czech out / cheque out No 2, Tony !!

My one euro second hand copy has just showed up ....stunning indeed.....

[gamba]

Sorry my dear, but am dead to the Romantic period, hence no favourite ( except The mighty Berlioz).

[Flosshilde]

I haven't listened to all Tchaikovsky's symphonies (yet) so can't really have a favourite.

Although I now have them all, I haven't listened to them all yet; No1 is, though, going a fair way to becoming my favourite. The catchy little tune (if I might put it that way) at the beginning of the first movement, which could become irritating but somehow doesn't, fools you into thinking that it's going to be a fairly light & cheerful piece which in fact becomes rather darker as it goes on.