When I listened to Dvorak’s Ninth Symphony (New World) a few months ago, I didn’t get on with it at all (see http://terrapinlistens2.blogspot.com/2008/09/dvorak-symphony-no-9-from-new-world-or.html). Part of the problem was that it sounded very shouty. The Eighth is not without its shouty bits, but I loved it, more light and shade, especially in the second and third movements.
Worth mentioning also is the performance, a free download by the Peabody Concert Orchestra, from the conservatoire at John Hopkins University (go to http://www.peabody.jhu.edu/pcorecordings, 2001/02 season). A lot of free classical downloads I’ve listened to have frankly been rather mediocre, but this performance is really good. (Why the tuning up at the start of the third movement?)
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