Rafael Kibelik

Une utopie négative située dans un monde de boue et de déchets, une plaine hantée par des groupes hostiles. C'est là que naît Plop, fils de la Chanteuse, recueilli par la vieille Goro, l'ancienne du Groupe, gardienne de l'écriture. Le récit se présente comme un flash-back intégral où le début et la fin se bousculent dans la trajectoire d'abord ascendante puis déclinante et fatale du personnage. …

This is a 1972 historic live recording of the only opera written by Spanish composer Manuel de Falla: La Vida Breve. Pedro Lavirgen, Ángeles Gulin, Lucero Tena and Rafael Frübek provide a wonderful performance of this unique masterpiece by de Falla.

The reissue game continues. All of this material has been available more or less continuously in recent years, with the exception of Frühbeck's Three-Cornered Hat, which only resurfaced quite recently on an EMI twofer accompanied by Atlántida. The reason it reappears here, evidently, stems from the fact that this two-disc set contains all of Victoria de Los Angeles' stereo Falla recordings; and despite the fact that she sings for about 60 seconds in total in "Hat", it's always a pleasure to hear Frühbeck's big-hearted, expansively Romantic but always exciting way with the music.

Gustav Mahler - Symphonie No. 2 "Auferstehungs-Symphonie"
Chor und Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks / Rafael Kubelik
EAC+LOG+CUE | FLAC: 341 MB | Artwork | 5% Recovery Info
Label/Cat#: Deutsche Grammophon "Resonance" # 445 017-2 GR | Country/Year: Germany 198_, 1969
Genre: Classical | Style: Romantic

A top conductor of large orchestral works of the late nineteenth century, Rafael Kubelik was born near Prague in 1914. The son of violinist Jan Kubelik (1880-1940), he studied violin, piano, composition, and conducting at the Prague Conservatory. He made his debut before the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra at age 19, and in 1939 became the music director of the National Opera in Brno, Czechoslovakia. In 1941, he became the music director of the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, a post he held until 1948. In 1948, with the establishment of a Communist dictatorship in Czechoslovakia, Kubelik left his homeland and became an exile for the next 40 years…