Antonín Dvořák: Symphony No. 9 'From the New World' (Rafael Kubelík, Berliner Philharmoniker)

Written while Dvořák directed the National Conservatory in New York, the New World Symphony fuses Bohemian folk warmth with spiritual melodies and American wide-open spaces. Rafael Kubelík and the Berlin Philharmonic balance triumphant brass fanfares with breathtaking lyricism, most memorably in the famous English horn solo of the Largo.