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Dvořák’s rarely heard oratorio The Spectre’s Bride fails to ignite, leaving a performance caught uneasily between respect and restlessness. 

The Czech conductor makes the short hop from Salzburg to replace Riccardo Chailly in an all-Mahler programme at the Lucerne Festival. 

Elgar’s elegiac cello concerto with Alisa Weilerstein’s majestic assumption of the solo part, coupled with a late Romantic masterpiece in the capable hands of Jakub Hrůša and the Czech Philharmonic.

Jakub Hrůša with the Munich Philharmonic and Christian Schmitt extract maximum colour and effervescence from Poulenc’s Organ Concerto, whereas the conductor opts for lyrical spaciousness in Dvořák’s rarely-heard Fifth Symphony.

Jakub Hrůša conducted the New York Philharmonic in a program of lesser-known works from well-loved composers. While Hrůša especially made the case for the Dvořák, the evening as a whole did not add up .