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Dvorak's Cello Concerto is simply the best one ever written. In fact, there is no other area of the concerto repertoire that is so dominated by a single work. Brahms loved it, and every cellist that ever lived to make a record has recorded it--or tried to. It's also so well written that it's actually pretty hard to do badly, though some have managed, of course. Charles Mackerras was a student in Prague of the great Czech conductor Vaclav Talich, and he conducts Czech music as well as anyone alive. Rafael Wallfisch is a superb cellist who realizes, more than most, that his performance must sound like the ultimate cello and orchestra experience. It certainly does. --David Hurwitz