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Dvorak - Slavonic Dances | 
| Creators: Antonin Dvorak, George Szell, Cleveland Orchestra
Label: Essential Classics
Category: Music
List Price: £5.99
Buy New: £4.99
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Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 28824
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
EAN: 5099704816128
ASIN: B000026SOC
Release Date: November 5, 2001
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Get up and Dance! July 13, 2004
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
This is indeed great music and this orchestra knows just how to play it from the fiery take on the first dance onwards. These are all Dvorak's own tunes, but he was obviously tapping into the the historic folk tradition. In creating his own tunes in traditional styles he makes his intention clear, it is not to preserve the music of the past but to bring it alive in the present. Parallels to what Dvorak was doing can just as well be seen in the best of the 1960's and 70's folk revival in Britain as in folk music derived works of other classical composers. When played with as much energy as they are here there is a definate contemporary feel to them. Sound quality wise there may well be recordings of these works which are technically better. But the sound here is very good and makes the works sound like excellent live performances, which is just right.
Amongst all the praise, don't forget Dvorak. December 29, 2001
21 out of 25 found this review helpful
Enthusiastic discussion of this bargain CD can be found on the internet, in buyers guides, and review magazines. Listening to it again today, I was most impressed by something that reviewers sometimes neglect - namely, the endless variety of ideas, dance styles, tempi and forms that Dvorak includes. He makes his contemporaries such as Brahms seem predictable, and the Strauss Brothers hide-bound. This richness and variety has additional appeal to those of us who live in an age when the press of a button can provide an hour and a quarter of dances, one after another. So that is my response to the many reviews this CD has prompted. The accolades for Szell, the Clevelanders, and engineers and the budget marketers are all deserved. I don't want Dvorak, however, to be forgotten.
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