BRC-3368 Goldmark RusticWedding-DvorakSymph3

This once very popular divertimento-symphony got plenty of recordings at a time when Bruckner, e.g., had to wait for some more decades and so too had Mahler. Here is a lustily played recording by the Vienna State Opera Orchestra (allegedly the VPO minus first desks). Dvorak had to wait too, to get his complete canon of nine into focus. So it is surprising that, so early during an era when the "New World: was known as no.5, Swoboda pioneered for Concert Hall (even beating  Supraphon to it) the Czech Master's actual no.3. The Record Guide didn't even mention it. The more was the pity, for this is a stunner. Swoboda wasn't a top rank conductor, yet he was a Czech after all, and here he beats all later competition, even of the early stereo era. His view is of Dvorak as a passionate young man, and he elicits feats of fine playing from individual players and collectively from his fine orchestra, who seem to share both his enthusiasm and vision. Equally riveting is his rendition of the Scherzo Capriccioso. Indispensable for Dvorak lovers.

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