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Work: Symphony no. 2 "Asrael", Op.27

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ComposerSuk, Josef (1874-1935)
PeriodRomantic
Work typeOrchestral
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Angelic and tragic: Czech Phil glistens in Dvořák and Suk at the Proms

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The Year of Czech Music continues at the BBC Proms with a highly-shaped Dvořák Cello Concerto from Proms debutant Anastasia Kobekina and Suk’s monster of a symphony, Asrael.
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Searing Suk: Petrenko conducts the Asrael Symphony in Berlin

Kirill Petrenko and the Berliner Philharmoniker are superb in Suk's massive symphony, but Barenboim's Beethoven fails to coalesce. 
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Emotional sinews stretched with Gardiner and the LSO

Truls Mørk was cultured and intense in Dvořák’s Cello Concerto while Sir John Eliot Gardiner took the LSO through its paces in Suk’s emotional beast of a symphony.
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