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Release Date: 23rd Apr 2012
Catalogue No: SU40802
Label: Supraphon
Series: Great Czech Conductors
Length: 2 hours 34 minutes

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Dvořák: Symphony No. 8 in G major, Op. 88

Work length37:52

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Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
Rafael Kubelik

I. Allegro con brio

Track length9:49

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$1.05

II. Adagio

Track length10:52

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III. Allegretto grazioso

Track length6:42

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IV. Allegro ma non troppo

Track length10:29

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Dvořák: Piano Concerto in G minor, Op. 33

Work length37:09

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Rudolf Firkušný (soloist), Rudolf Firkušný (piano)
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
Rafael Kubelik

I. Allegro agitato

Track length17:21

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II. Andante sostenuto

Track length8:48

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III. Finale. Allegro con fuoco

Track length11:00

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Shostakovich: Symphony No. 9 in E flat major, Op. 70

Work length27:10

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Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
Rafael Kubelik

I. Allegro

Track length4:50

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II. Moderato

Track length10:33

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III. Presto

Track length4:09

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IV. Largo

Track length1:38

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V. Allegretto

Track length6:00

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Martinů: Symphony No. 4, H. 305

Work length31:53

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Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
Rafael Kubelik

I. Poco moderato

Track length6:15

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II. Allegro vivo. Moderato (Trio). Allegro vivo

Track length7:58

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III. Largo

Track length10:16

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IV. Poco allegro

Track length7:24

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Martinů: Memorial to Lidice, H. 296

Work length9:08

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Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
Rafael Kubelik

Dobiáš: Stalingrad. Cantata for Baritone, Male Chorus and Orchestra

Work length11:33

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Zdeněk Otava (vocalist)
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Army Recitation Corps, Typografia Male Chorus
Rafael Kubelik

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Groundbreaking early recordings made by the legendary Czech conductor Rafael Kubelík.

The name of Rafael Kubelík symbolically opens the Supraphon series of archival recordings featuring the most celebrated Czech conductors. Kubelík’s journey to catharsis, which was represented by the legendary performance of My Country at the first liberated Prague Spring festival in 1990, lasted more than half a century.

He first conducted the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra when he was twenty and at the age of twenty-eight (1942) became its chief conductor. The precious recordings on this double CD were made between 1944 and 1948, prior to Kubelík’s emigration. When it comes to Dvořák’s music, one of the cornerstones of the Czech Philharmonic’s repertoire, unique recordings of Kubelík’s singular interpretation of Symphony No. 8 and the Piano Concerto with a spellbinding performance by the young Rudolf Firkušný have been preserved. Yet Kubelík also boldly presented a contemporary repertoire.

The live recording of Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 9 dating from December 1945 (a mere three months after the work was completed!) is probably the very first recording of the work. The onerous experience of the war is also reflected in Martinů’s Symphony No. 4. The unique recordings of the Memorial to Lidice and Dobiáš’s Stalingrad cantata depict the atmosphere of a difficult time. Kubelík’s recordings from the 1940s are a testament to a legendary figure who after another 40 years of conducting leading orchestras abroad would in the spring of 1990 make a triumphant return to liberated Prague.

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