Josef Suk: Sinfonía nº 2, «Asrael» - Dima Slobodeniouk - Sinfónica de Galicia

A pleasure to discover such a a major postromantic work. Echos of Bruckner and Mahler, with a continuously tragic tone. Played with extreme delicacy and richness of nuances, I particularly enjoyed the slow movements,. the 2nd and 4th with those long, long pedal notes. A very beautiful finale, too. As it always happens with symphonies this long, it only works out because it's very well conducted and played.

Gracias por difundir obras de Suk. Felicitaciones. Saludos desde Lima Perú.

Siempre con propuestas interesantes. Gracias por subirlo.

Greetings Maestro Slobodeniouk & RDC Producciones. Many thanks for the splendid performance and interpretation of this work sonorously captured in such a vivid crisp recording. Perhaps your live concert recording of the Asrael Symphony could be paired alongside another spellbinding performance of Liszt's Dante Symphony some 6 years ago and issued as a 2-(SA)CD recording. That would be much looked forward to as both works possess remarkably striking affinities in the way that they are scored. Both are filled with the fearsome threnodies of thunderous timpani rolls and harsh hammer blows as they plummet the depths of hellish despair and unbearable human suffering only to conclude on a blissful or consolatory note in their respective closing passages. As such, the pairing of both works would serve as ideal companion pieces.

I've always thought it noteworthy that this may be the only high-level professional orchestra in all of Europe whose principal oboe is American, or plays in the American style.

Why is everyone only use four horns instead of originally six?

Too silly..