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Perhaps the main reason you’d want this disc would be as a souvenir of the Otto Klemperer Memorial Concert, held on January 14, 1974 (assuming,
Rafael Kubelik’s DG recording of Dvorák’s Slavonic Dances remains one of the reference editions, and it’s available on “Originals” at exactly the same price as
Contractual problems prevented Rafael Kubelik’s 1967 Bavarian Radio recording of Wagner’s Die Meistersinger from being released until its appearance on the Calig label several years
Rafael Kubelik seems to be enjoying a second career since his death, thanks to the flood of live and broadcast performances appearing on CD. He
The Sinfonietta was recorded with the Czech Philharmonic in 1946, just two years before Rafael Kubelik made his fateful decision to leave his homeland (to
This Kubelik Mahler Two is the latest in Audite’s series of live Bavarian Radio broadcast concerts. As an interpretation it shares many of the virtues
Dvorak’s apprentice symphonies have been so heavily eclipsed in popularity by his last three that they’re seldom encountered either on disc or in the concert
Rafael Kubelik’s excellence in Mahler can almost be taken for granted. In general, his live performances offer a higher degree of risk-taking than his studio
The Israel Philharmonic, circa 1958, seemed better equipped to handle Tchaikovsky’s luxuriously upholstered textures than Dvorák’s exposed and rhythmically challenging string writing. Even under Rafael
A pianist of grace and refinement, Clifford Curzon brought sufficient depth to his playing to avoid the twin evils of so many Mozart performances of
