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This initial installment, combining "Vysehrad" (the name refers to an ancient fortress high above the Moldau River near Prague) and "The Moldau," adds up to a strong and distinctive start. Even while bringing a vital pulse to both works, Jarvi allows the DSO to show its colors; and Chandos' recording team delivers the big sound with a grand concert hall perspective. The second new disc, called stands in the honored Paul Paray tradition of DSO showcase albums. Jarvi's smorgasbord 15 miniatures running nearly 73 minutes ranges from favorites such as Debussy's Clair de Lune and Ellington's Solitude to Glinka's evocative Kamarin-skaya and a cluster of disarmingly beautiful pieces by Latvian composers nobody in this country ever heard of. Oh, yes, and Sousa's Stars and Stripes Forever.

Too bad there's no video of Jarvi mugging on the podium. Sonically, however, it's in living color. FibichSmetana: Lawrence B. Johnson 10 Rebate Check is from Thomasville! I jr) il CIO 'rfl It'" If i vaV Wsc? ix POPRQCH s3 idh .1 Mariah Carey Music Box (Columbia) It won't matter to her legion of fans that Carey has cut yet another album without even a scintilla of honest emotion. For them, she is a beloved figure because she impersonates a singer so deftly.

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Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Neeme Jarvi conducting (Chandos) With a flourish of trumpets and a stirring of strings, the Detroit Symphony Orchestra heralds the opening of its 1993-94 season still two weeks away in two new compact discs, both of which have the potential to break the orchestra's CD sales records. One disc pairs works by two 19th-century Czech composers, Zdenek Fibich's tuneful Symphony No. 1 in and the first two movements of Bedrich Smetana's six-part cycle of symphonic poems collectively titled My Fatherland (or in the equally common Czech, Ma Vlast). Fibich's 35-minute symphony plays out its course in unshadowed optimism, an endless lyric stream sparkling on the surface and tender in its deepest currents. So much for depth.

If no concert-wise ear could confuse Fibich with Brahms, it's just as certain that this open-hearted music will touch many another heart. To conductor Neeme Jarvi's credit, he allows Fibich's work its own ingenuous charm, never forcing a dramatic point that isn't there. Whether out of respect for the music or its music director, the DSO offers a heads-up, supple performance. Apparently Jarvi and company will traverse Smetana's Ma Vlast two movements Rebate JM) UIWM Offer not valid with any other promotional discount. Michigan's Only Thomasville Store bloofiriiGld hill fornltufe The Juliana Hatfield Three Become What You Are (Mammoth) With apologies to Adam Ant, "Can't sing, can't write, what do you do?" If you're Juliana Hatfield, you just keep selling records.

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