Kubelik

Kubelík’s star began to wane in the years before World War I. Some felt he had gone off the boil but it was more a question of his public turning to new idols, Elman and Vecsey. In 1915 he retired to take composition seriously, not resuming his concert career until 1920. He toured Britain 20 times from 1900 to 1934 (packing the Royal Albert Hall with 7,000 people in 1926) and the U.S. many times up to 1938 (6,000 heard him at the New York Hippodrome in 1920-21). He commanded a wide range of music and in Central Europe he is remembered as a great musician. He died in Prague on 5 December 1940. The main fruits of Kubelík’s five-year break were his first three Violin Concertos, published in Prague in 1920. Of the eventual series of six, Pavel Šporcl says: ‘They are technically very demanding and musically extremely interesting.’ The First Concerto in C major, which he plays here, is a melodious Late Romantic work, well tailored to a front-line virtuoso’s strengths, and it should not have fallen out of the repertoire. Kubelík emerged from his purdah to première it at the Grosse Musikvereinssaal in Vienna on 29 January 1917, Nedbal conducting the Tonkünstler Orchestra.

Anton Bruckner - Sinfonie Nr. 3 d-moll
Symphonie-Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks / Rafael Kubelik
EAC+LOG+CUE | FLAC: 278 MB | Full Artwork | 5% Recovery Info
Label/Cat#: Audite # 92.543 | Country/Year: Germany 2005, 1962
Genre: Classical | Style: Romantic, Symphonic

"…Still, the 1962 is not first rank for todays standards but is very good for the period. Recommended." ~sa-cd.net

Rafael Kubelik was one of our foremost interpreters of Dvorak and other great Czech composers such as Smetana and Janacek. His critically acclaimed 1960's Dvorak symphony Deutsche Grammophon cycle was reissued several years ago as a budget-priced collection.

Karl Amadeus Hartmann - Sinfonien - Gesangszene
(Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks - Rieger - Leitner - Kubelik - Macal)
EAC 099pb4 Rip | FLAC+CUE, LOGs | 4 CD | 224:50 min
973 MB | 300 dpi PDF Complete Scans
Genre: 20th Century - Contemporary | Label: Wergo

Hello buddies! I know many of you know about this set and how the modern recording by Metzmacher is maybe, more interesting than this one, but it contains some historical recordings by conductors who knew and met Hartmann and worked close to him, such as Rafael Kubelik, a great champion of his symphonies and stage music. Enjoy!

Music for orchestra is a separate part in Schumann's works. With the exception of the concertos, this album contains almost all of this part. The First Symphony, known as the "Spring Symphony" was written at the beginning of 1841. This first work for orchestra was outlined in four days, between January 23 and 26. One month later, it was already orchestrated and the premiere took place in Leipzig at the end of March. The Fourth - which in fact is the second - followed a few months later, in September 1841. The main lines were also composed in four days and was finished on December 6. A second version with modified instrumentation was performed in 1853 in Dusseldorf and was titled the Fourth Symphony.

Gustav Mahler - Symphonie Nr. 5
Symphonie-Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks / Rafael Kubelik
EAC+LOG+CUE | FLAC: 340 MB | Full Artwork | 5% Recovery Info
Label/Cat#: Deutsche Grammophon "Resonance" # 429 519-2 GR | Country/Year: Germany 198_, 1971
Genre: Classical | Style: Romantic

The Symphony No. 5 by Gustav Mahler was composed in 1901 and 1902, mostly during the summer months at Mahler's cottage at Maiernigg. Among its most distinctive features are the funereal trumpet solo that opens the work and the frequently performed Adagietto.