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Czech in, Czech out

Czech in, Czech out

From the Lebrecht Album of the Week:

Comparisons in music are unfair. An ephemeral art cannot be measured and pinned, like a butterfly, to the page without risking mortal damage. Nevertheless, human beings possess critical faculties and spend much of their lives assessing whether A is preferable to B. Not necessarily better, just more apt to present circumstances.

I offer these caveats because I have been listening to Dvorak orchestral works from very different sources…

Read on here.

And here.

En francais ici.

Pictured: Dvorak in America.

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