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The Dvorak & Brahms series, in which conductor Jakub Hruscha, born in Brno, Czech Republic, has been recording with the prestigious Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, of which he has been Chief Conductor since 2016, is now complete with the simultaneous release of two titles! The Bamberg Symphony Orchestra was originally an orchestra of German descent in Prague, Czech Republic. Musicians who fled the Czech Republic at the end of World War II and settled in the ancient city of Bamberg founded the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra in 1946, the year after the war ended. Since then, the orchestra's sound, with its low center of gravity, German balance, and Central European timbre, combined with the music-making of German maestros such as Kjellbert, Jochum, and Horst Stein, has been popular. In recent years, under Jonathan Nott, its functionality has been further improved, and together with Fulscher, who took over the baton, it has gained a high reputation. The series combining Brahms' four symphonies and Dvořák's last four symphonies, the brainchild of Frusha, began in 2017 with a combination of two E minor symphonies, was released back to back in number, and is finally complete after the Corona disaster. In the original liner of the first release, Frusha said that the two composers were indispensable to himself and the orchestra, that there are some things that Brahms and Dvořák communicate and some things that are not similar, and that contrasting their works brings this to light! He said that the contrast between the two orchestras brings this to light.This was the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra's first performance of the complete Brahms symphonies since Horst Stein (1997). Fulscher made the most of the orchestra's warm sound and adopted a moderate tempo to let the melodies sing freely, respecting the traditions of the orchestra. The violins are arranged on both wings, and repeats of the first movement are used in No. 1 and No. 2 to create music of a large scale. The Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, which is associated with the Czech Republic, has not recorded many of Dvořák's symphonies, with the exception of a few. The Bohemian folkloric music of the Seventh is presented in its entirety in a way that is uniquely Frusha's. The domestic edition comes with a Japanese commentary by Hiroki Honda. Naxos Japan