#dvorak

#dvorak

This absorbing release on the Leipzig-based Accentus label is a reminder that the Royal Opera's new music director, Jakub Hrusa, has for the last nine years excelled in orchestral music as chief conductor of the Bamberg Symphony. The programme juxtaposes three works composed in the final decades of the 19th century, each reflecting in different ways on the notion of a hero, or what is meant by a hero's journey.