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Interpretative analysis of various recordings of the 8th symphony of Antonín Dvořák, op. 88
Šalšová, Kristina ; SVÁROVSKÝ, Leoš (advisor) ; FARKAČ, Hynek (referee)
The Eighth Symphony written by Antonín Dvořák with the often referenced subtitle “English” and opus number 88, is one of the core pieces not only of the Czech symphonic repertoire. In this work I deal with the comparison of five different recordings of this work. Recordings are chosen to represent not only the individual epochs of the 20th century, but also the contemporary aesthetics of this symphony. I compare the recordings of Rafael Kubelík, Karel Ančerl, Libor Pešek, Vladimír Válek and Jiří Bělohlávek. For these conductors, at the time of recording, this piece was one of the basic works in their repertoire. We cannot apply the same thing to all orchestras; some of them played the song for the first time. For each recording, its sound properties are assessed, taking into account the time options. Recording teams have achieved remarkable recordings even in earlier times on which, of course, their great share also had great conductors, who we follow in the interpretation of the main Czech symphonic works until today. Then there are dynamic, tempo or agogic differences, including the scope of work and musical logic. By repeated listening, I was getting more and more detail and finding that one and the same symphony could be interpreted quite differently without having to designate one of the interpretations as the most successful. It is also necessary to point out that not the same musical means will be appreciated by the listener at a live concert or studio recording. An interesting category is so-called live recordings from concerts.
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