Furthest in terms of style, and certainly, next to Leoš Janáček, the one who retains the highest claim to international standing,” wrote the musicologist Ludwig Finscher in the classic encyclopaedia “Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart”. The music of Suk – violinist, composer and one of the most important Bohemian symphonists - isstill relatively rarely heard in Western European concert halls, a situation that should definitely change. With this recording of his second symphony, “Asrael”, BR-klassik makes a strong case for Suk’s impressive and compelling music. In 1891, Josef Suk, having started out as a violinist, became a master student of the worldfamousDvořák. He was regularly invited to the composer’s country house, where he fell in love with his teacher's daughter and married her.