IDAGIO | Dvořák: Symphony No. 8 - The Golden Spinning Wheel

Featuring

Claus Peter Flor
Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra
Antonín Dvořák

Did you know?

1/6

Composer's Artistic Vision

Antonín Dvořák, the composer, aimed to create a work different from his other symphonies, with individual ideas worked out in a new manner for his Eighth Symphony.

Performer Biography

The Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra (MPO) is composed of 105 musicians from 25 nations, showcasing harmony between different cultures and nationalities.

Compositional Technique

Dvořák's symphonic poem The Golden Spinning Wheel does not follow traditional musical forms like sonata or rondo, instead being guided exclusively by the 300-strophe ballad's storyline.

Critical Reception

The Eighth Symphony's 'new' style was disconcerting to some critics; George Bernard Shaw compared it to a Rossini overture, and Johannes Brahms found it too 'fragmentary and trivial'.

Recording & Production

This Hybrid SACD recording offers both Stereo (CD and SACD) and 5.0 Surround sound (SACD), aiming to reproduce the natural sound in a concert venue faithfully.

Composition History

The Scherzo capriccioso was composed during one of the darkest periods of Dvořák's life, following his mother's death in December 1882, yet it expresses unrestrained joy.