Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra & Bernard Haitink- Dvorak. Symphony No. 7 (2025) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Following the success of Antonín Dvořák’s first visit to London in 1884, the London Philharmonic Society asked him to return the following year and to compose a new symphony for the occasion. It was an honourable request – after all, the London Philharmonic Society had commissioned Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony six decades earlier! When Dvořák began sketching out the symphony on December 13, 1884, he was well aware of the high expectations involved – both his own and those of others. Most music critics and Dvořák biographers, however, have struggled with the interpretation of this exceptional piece. For example, it has been interpreted “politically” against the background of the growing German-Czech tensions of those years. But the existential power of the D minor Symphony – its anger, its expansive pessimism, i.e. its confessional character – may also derive from the biography and personality of its composer, which were probably far more complex, painful and problematic than any “Bohemian idyll” we might assume.

TRACKLIST

01. Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra & Bernard Haitink - Dvořák: Symphony No. 7: I. Allegro maestoso (Live)
02. Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra & Bernard Haitink - Dvořák: Symphony No. 7: II. Poco adagio (Live)
03. Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra & Bernard Haitink - Dvořák: Symphony No. 7: III. Scherzo. Vivace (Live)
04. Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra & Bernard Haitink - Dvořák: Symphony No. 7: IV. Finale. Allegro (Live)



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