"Symphony No. 8 in G major, Op. 88, is, in contrast with the 7th, characterised by a warmer and more optimistic tone. Karl Schumann (in booklet notes for a recording of all the symphonies by Rafael Kubelík) compares it to the works of Gustav Mahler. As with the 7th, some feel the 8th is the best of the symphonies. That some critics feel it necessary to promote a symphony as "better than the 9th" shows how the immense popularity of the 9th has overshadowed the earlier works." - Wikipedia
Symphony No.8 G-major op.88
1. Allegro con brio
2. Adagio
3. Allegretto grazioso
4. Allegro ma non troppo
"Symphony No. 9 in E minor, Op. 95, may be better known by its subtitle, From the New World, and is also called the New World Symphony. Dvořák wrote it between January and May 1893, while he was in New York. At the time of its first performance, he claimed that he used elements from American music such as Spirituals and Native American music in this work, but he later denied this. The first movement has a solo flute passage reminiscent of Swing Low, Sweet Chariot, and one of his students later reported that the second movement depicted, programmatically, the sobbing of Hiawatha. The second movement was so reminiscent of a negro spiritual that William Arms Fisher wrote lyrics for it and called it Goin' Home. Dvořák was interested in indigenous American music, but in an article published in the New York Herald on December 15, 1893, he wrote "[In the 9th symphony] I have simply written original themes embodying the peculiarities of the Indian music." Neil Armstrong took a recording of the 'New World' symphony to the Moon during the Apollo 11 mission, the first Moon landing, in 1969.[citation needed] The main theme of the slow movement of this symphony was used as the background to a British television advertisement (directed by Ridley Scott) for Hovis bread in the 1970s.[citation needed]" - Wikipedia
Symphony No.9 E-minor op.95 ("New World Symphony")
5. Adagio - Allegro molto
6. Largo
7. Molto vivace
8. Allegro con fuoco
