You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. An unbalanced program in some ways, Thursday night began with Mozart's Symphony No. 25, put to ...

Joseph Suk’s “Asrael” Symphony is one of those death-driven, love-haunted Monumental pieces that every composer of stature (or who aspired to stature) seemed to be writing in the years before World ...

The music of Josef Suk is now a genuine rarity in the orchestral repertoire. Sir Charles Mackerras and the Czech Philharmonic showcased Suk's most ambitious work, the Asrael Symphony, in the first of ...

Josef Suk's best known orchestral work is his second symphony, the work written after the death of his father-in-law and mentor Dvorák, which he subtitled Asrael, and which mines a deep intensely ...

ASRAEL is the angel of death in Islamic folklore, and this giant symphony by Dvorak's son-in-law (who lived from 1874 to 1935) is rightly seen as a unique achievement in Romantic music. It's hardly a ...

Josef Suk's Asrael is named after the angel of death - but it is not all doom and gloom. It's a tribute to lost love, writes Arminta Wallace Symphony is a bittersweet kind of word. Being at the posh ...

Asrael Czech Philharmonic Orchestra Josef Suk, Composer Jirí Belohlávek, Conductor (A) Fairy Tale Czech Philharmonic Orchestra Jirí Belohlávek, Conductor Josef Suk, Composer How gratifying that Jiří ...

Asrael Jirí Belohlávek, Conductor BBC Symphony Orchestra Josef Suk, Composer Sinfonia da Requiem Jirí Belohlávek, Conductor BBC Symphony Orchestra Benjamin Britten, Composer If Kubelík’s devastatingly ...