MUSIClassical ALLEGRO
Topic: DVDs
"Discovering Masterpieces of Classical Music: Dvorák's 'New World' Sym phony" (EuroArts DVD)
This DVD features a half-hour film tracing the context and content of Dvorák's ever-popular Sym phony No. 9 (nicknamed "From the New World"), as the preface to a full live performance. And what a performance it is -- Claudio Ab bado conducting the Berlin Philharmonic, recorded in true sur round sound. Beyond the exalted playing -- the conductor yielding sounds like a conjurer of spirits in the symphony's Largo -- the musicians were beautifully shot in Palermo, Italy's Teatro Massimo. (This performance, plus Brahms' Violin Concerto with Gil Shaham, is also available on a DVD with the full 2002 Palermo concert.)
