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In Reply to: RE: Excellent idea posted by Chris from Lafayette on January 10, 2017 at 01:10:32
Chris, thanks for the info on more recent recordings.
I had not been aware of the Macal recordings with the CzPO on Exton. IThe Macal/Miulwaukee Symphony recordings on Koss were hard to find back when I was looking and not cheap. I saw good reviews but I never managed to buy one of the CDs.
I was aware of the Pesek recordings on eVrgin. I have the 4th and 5th symphonies; neither performance convinced me that the 4th or 5th were something I wanted to listen to very often. The CDs also included the Czech Suite. Not a successful performance.
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Those Macal/Milwaukee performances (the couple that I heard anyway) seemed bogged down by what I heard as unattractively dry and damped sound on the recordings. His cycle with the CzPO (at least the two albums I show) has all the reverberation one would need - possibly even too much, I'm sure, for some listeners, but I like it a lot.
Regarding the Pesek recordings, I had those two CD's that you mention too. I really liked them, but I was already a fan of those symphonies from the older 50's and 60's recordings by Neumann and the Prague SO (for No. 4) and Sejna and the CzPO (for No. 5). In any case, I'll soon be getting a chance to re-evaluate the Pesek recordings! ;-)
Good info about the two sets of Macal recordings. I usually prefer recordings with a fairly close perspective and less reverb. as opposed to more. I might not find a Goldilocks recording in either set.
I've loved Dvorak's 8th and 9th symphonies from the first time I heard them. Later, the 6th was easy to like. I want to enjoy more of the symphonies and I try. I listen to #7 fairly often and get some pleasure from it. Listening to 1-5 is a duty with little reward. Fortunately for me, there is a lot of other Dvorak that I thoroughly enjoy.
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