Bruno Walter recorded Antonin Dvorák’s Symphony No. 8 in G Major only twice in his lifetime. For inexplicable reasons the only one reprinted on CD has been, up to now, the one from 1961 with the Columbia Symphony Orchestra, which is by far inferior, for musical inspiration, to that of 1947 with the New York Philharmonic, a true milestone in the history of interpretation of the Bohemian composer’s symphonies. Worthy addition to that work are, in this CD, Dvorák’s Slavonic Dance Op. 46 No. 1, and two famous pieces by another great Czech’s composer, Bedrich Smetana: Die Moldau and the overture from The Bartered Bride: powerfully evocative works from which Bruno Walters is able to distil all the charm and melancholy of a long-lost glorious mittleeuropean tradition.