Adagio.FM - Leos Janacek, Antonin Dvorak, Bedrich Smetana, Ludwig Van Beethoven, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Johann Sebastian Bach, Jiri Antonin Benda, Josef Suk, Jaroslav Kvapil

#	Track Listing	Length	Played
01	Sinfonietta - Allegretto Leos Janacek	2:10	64
02	Trio for Piano, Violin and Cello in G minor, Op. 26, B 56 - Scherzo, Presto Antonin Dvorak	5:47	63
03	Serenade for String Orchestra in E major, Op. 22 - Moderato Antonin Dvorak	4:42	61
04	My Country. A Cycle of Symphonic Poems Bedrich Smetana	9:47	73
05	Trio for Piano, Violin and Cello No.5 in D major: Allegro vivace e con brio Ludwig Van Beethoven	6:37	62
06	Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 23 in A major, K. 488 - Allegro Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart	10:44	74
07	Brandenburg Concerto for 4 Violas , Cello, Violone and Harpsichord Continuo No. 6 in B flat major: Allegro Johann Sebastian Bach	5:15	78
08	Concerto for Two Violins and Strings in D minor: Largo ma non tanto Johann Sebastian Bach	5:42	61
09	Sinfonia in B flat major - Moderato Jiri Antonin Benda	2:54	123
10	Sinfonia in B flat major - Allegretto Jiri Antonin Benda	1:55	122
11	Sinfonia in B flat major - Allegro vivacissimo Jiri Antonin Benda	1:03	121
12	String Quartet No. 1 inspired by Tolstoy´s Kreutzer Sonata - Adagio Leos Janacek	3:59	93
13	Fairy Tale. About the Faithful Love of Raduz and Mahulena and their Sorrows Josef Suk	10:37	150
14	Rusalka. Opera in 3 Acts, Op. 114 - Act 1: O, moon high up in the deep, deep sky Jaroslav Kvapil	5:05	382

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Reviewers Rating

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Rusalka, tender topcomposition, bad rough recording.

By:	Haino
Date:	14 Oct 2009
Rating:

Awfull recording!

When hearing this track of Dvorak's "Rusalka",
"O moon in the deep deep sky",
i did not get that fine imagination of the ultimate
expression of female tenderness, fragility, care, beauty,
which this composition should give. A mermaid fallen in love.
Not that tender touching of the words, in the pronounciation.
Not a fluent synchronious orchestra.

Neither did i hear a quiet bright sound,
like one expects on a very lonesome quiet night.
On the edge of a romantic lake with ribbling
fullmoon-reflections in the water, and gentle soft,
allmost inaudible, warm breezing backgroundsound
of that water wind, and owls in the distance.

I prefer the recordings of Eva Urbanova,
Frederica von Stade ('Dvorak in Prague'),
and Renée Fleming.
Listening to them gives tears of tenderness,
a quiet compassion for a tender woman in need.
One can compare it via youtube, for example,
or in a shop. Rusalka is a very beautiful opera.

What i heard in this recording was a scraping sound,
and a performance of a less quality than average.

Haino.
(Relive the beauty in opera. )

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