Suk - Asrael - Czech Philharmonic, Charles Mackerras (2011) [FLAC] torrent

Artist: Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Charles Mackerras
Title: Suk: Asrael Symphony, Op. 27
Year Of Release: 2011
Label: Supraphon
Genre: Classical
Quality: FLAC (tracks)
Total Time: 59:57
Total Size: 238 Mb

Tracklist:

01. I. Andante sostenuto (00:14:56)
02. II. Andante (00:07:11)
03. III. Vivace (00:11:35)
04. IV. Adagio (00:10:57)
05. V. Adagio e maestoso - Allegro appassionato (00:15:18)

Total length: 00:59:57
Label: SUPRAPHON a.s.

Performers:
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
Sir Charles Mackerras

Josef Suk began writing the funeral symphony Asrael to commemorate his teacher and father-in-law Antonin Dvorak. During the course of work, however, Fate dealt him another crushing blow: Asrael, the Angel of Death, took away Suk’s wife and Dvorak’s daughter, Otilie. The symphony is a story of a suffering whose strength seems simply unendurable, yet also a story of its overcoming, seeking solace and hope.

Sir Charles Mackerras’s live recording of Asrael originated on a Good Friday, 6 April 2007, one hundred years after the symphony’s premiere. The Australian conductor had first heard about the Asrael some sixty years previously from Suk’s close friend, Vaclav Talich. In later years Mackerras confessed that he perceived the work in a completely different light after his daughter had died. Sir Charles conducted Suk’s Asrael during one of his last performances with the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra. It is also his last previously unreleased recording with this orchestra.