Suk: Asrael – review

Czech PO/Mackerras(Supraphon)Though the late Charles Mackerras knew Josef Suk's Asrael Symphony for almost 60 years, ever since he studied in Prague with Václav Talich, a close friend of Suk and recognised as the greatest interpreter of his music, it was one of the few great Czech works that he never tackled in the recording studio. But in 2007 Mackerras did conduct the Czech Philharmonic in a concert performance in Prague on the centenary of the work's premiere, and that forms the basis of th...

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