Great Conductors of the 20th Century: Rafael Kubelik
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Canadian Music Store CD DetailsComposer: Antonin DvorakComposer: 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
Music reviews of Great Conductors of the 20th Century: Rafael KubelikMusic Review: The Last of the "Great Conductors"
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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