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Hard on the heels of Audite’s Mozart Concerto disc (Audite 95453) with Clifford Curzon and Rafael Kubelik comes this pairing of Beethoven’s last two Concertos
Though the title of this series is “Decca Legends”, the real legend here is Rafael Kubelik himself, and not these recordings. These performances are neither
Rafael Kubelik brings to Schumann’s last two symphonies the same qualities he did to the First and Second. He suffuses the music with an engagingly
These are warmly affectionate, poetic, yet red-blooded readings. Rafael Kubelik approaches Schumann from the opposite direction of George Szell, who maintains a classical rigour throughout
Deutsche Grammophon has at long last begun to reissue Rafael Kubelik’s 1970’s Beethoven cycle. While all three of Herbert von Karajan’s increasingly processed and denatured
Rafael Kubelik was one of this century’s great conductors, and his recordings have worn remarkably well. His Mahler cycle, though less heavily promoted than Bernstein’s,
This concert performance of Handel’s Judas Maccabaeus took place in Munich in 1963, and for what it is, it’s very exciting. By “what it is”
As suggested by his Chicago Symphony Orchestra recordings from the early 1950s, Rafael Kubelik has a special intensity that was still very much present in
