Great Conductors of the 20th Century: Rafael Kubelik

Great Conductors of the 20th Century: Rafael Kubelik

Great Conductors of the 20th Century: Rafael Kubelik

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Composer: Antonin Dvorak
Composer: Paul Hindemith
Composer: Robert Schumann
Composer: Franz Schubert
Composer: Gustav Mahler
Composer: Felix Mendelssohn
Composer: Hector Berlioz
Composer: Leos Janacek
Composer: Bohuslav Martinu
Conductor: Rafael Kubelik
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2004-07-13
Music Label: EMI Classics
Soundtracks:

Music CD 1

Slavonic Rhapsody In A Flat Major, Op.45 No.3, B86
I Poco Moderato - Poco Allegro - Allegro
II Scherzo. Allegro Vivo - Trio. Moderato
III Largo
IV Poco Allegro
La Damnation De Faust, Op.24: Ballet Des Sylphes
A Midsummer Night's Dream: Overture
I Allegro
II Turandot: Scherzo. Moderato - Lebhaft
III Andantino
IV Marsch

Music CD 2

Genoveva, Op.81: Overture
I Adagio Maestoso - Allegro Con Brio
II Allegretto
III Menuetto. Vivace - Trio
IV Presto Vivace
Symphony No.10: Adagio
I Fanfares. Allegretto - Allegro - Maestoso
II Andante - Allegretto - Maestoso
III Moderato
IV Allegretto
V Andante Con Moto - Maestoso

Music reviews of Great Conductors of the 20th Century: Rafael Kubelik

Music Review: The Last of the "Great Conductors"
Rating: 4 Stars

Those familiar with my reviews on Amazon know of my love for the "Great Conductors of the 20th Century" series. With a recent batch of six releases (Reiner, Toscanini, Furtwangler, Karajan, Celibidache and this title of Kubelik), the series now has a total of 40 volumes. And while the "Great Conductors" website claims that 60 releases will eventually be made, it is hard to imagine that this series is not concluding with these six big name conductors. What is also a shame is that while all of these releases boast "rare and previously unreleased material on CD," most of the last six sets have, inevitably I suppose because of these conductors' popularity, lots of material that has been readily available on disc for years. Take this Kubelik set, the majority of the first-time CD tracks are mono recordings from the late 40s and early 50s -- Martinu's 4th Symphony, Mendelssohn's Midsummer Night's Dream Overture, a Berlioz "Damnation de Faust" excerpt and Janacek's Sinfonietta (the latter being one of the set's highlights IMO). To my knowledge the only new to CD stereo reissues are the 1960 Schubert 3rd Symphony with the Vienna PO and a 1959 Dvorak Slavonic Rhapsody with the Royal PO, and both are wonderful. The remainder of the set is a re-tread -- Kubelik's 1953 Chicago Symphony Orchestra performance of Hindemith's Symphonic Metamorphosis is included on a Mercury Living Presence title, still currently available though that line has seen many recent deletions. The 1964 Berlin Philharmonic performance of Schumann's Genoveva Overture is currently available on a DG "Double 2CD" title of Kubelik performing the four Schumann Symphonies. Finally, the Adagio from Mahler's unfinished 10th Symphony is included on the box set of Kubelik's Mahler Symphony Cycle with the Bavarian RSO (see my review). In all, the "Great Conductors of the 20th Century" has been a delightful series, but in some ways it is a lackluster conclusion to have purchased these final discs knowing that I'm buying material I already own. Surely, there were some other unreleased treasures to send this series off gallantly into the sunset.

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STEREO & MONO 2 CD set in a slimline double j.b. Stickered: Contains rare material previously unreleased on CD. Great Conductors Of The 20TH Century series.

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