Word: dvo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...DVOŘÁK: CONCERTO FOR CELLO (Lynn Harrell, cellist; London Symphony Orchestra; James Levine, conductor; RCA; $6.98). Its jubilant fire, four-seasons color and unstrained lyric impulse make this the finest cello concerto ever written. The fast-emerging Harrell recalls the heroic eloquence of the late Emanuel Feuermann, and the peripatetic Levine, soon to become music director of the Metropolitan Opera, offers a brilliant reminder that Dvořák wrote the work for orchestra as well as cello...
...Dvořák: The Golden Spinning Wheel, Symphonic Variations (London Symphony Orchestra, Istvan Kertesz conductor; London, $5.98). Mention the words "tone poem" and the average post-Romantic music buff will think of Franz (Mazeppa) Liszt or Richard (Don Juan) Strauss, but rarely of Dvorak. A pity, since Dvorak, too, was a master of the genre. His subjects varied from The Watersprite to The Midday Witch, but he was never more magical than in The Golden Spinning Wheel. Recounting the fairy tale of a lovely spinning girl who pays somewhat gruesomely for a king's love, Dvorak filled...