Caterina Alda
Martina Arroyo
Arleen Auger
Teresa Berganza
Carlo Bergonzi
Ursula Boese
Inge Borkh
Rolf Boysen
Willi Brokmeier
Virgilio Carbonari
Fiorenza Cossotto
Franz Crass
Helen Donath
Kieth Engen
Brigitte Fassbaender
Lorenz Fehenberger
Hans Herbert Fiedler
Mirella Fiorentini
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Placido Domingo
Renate Freyer
Albert Gassner
Nicolai Gedda
Alfredo Giacomotti
Donald Grobe
Raimund Grumbach
Ernst Haefliger
Victor von Halem
Julia Hamari
James Harper
Karin Hautermann
Nikolaus Hillebrandt
Gundula Janowitz
Gwyneth Jones
John van Kesteren
James King
Richard Kogel
Karl Christian Kohn
Adalbert Kraus
Eberhard Kraus
Irmgard Lampart
Horst Laubenthal
Evelyn Lear
Friedrich Lenz
Edith Mathis
Franz Mazura
Peter Meven
Elsie Morison
Theodor Nicolai
Gerd Nienstedt
Birgit Nilsson
Hans Gunter Nocker
Wieslaw Ochman
Piero de Palma
Hermann Prey
Norma Procter
John Shirley-Quirk
Anna Reynolds
Karl Ridderbusch
Hilde Rossel-Majdan
Erika Ruggeberg
Herbert Schachtschneider
Marga Schiml
Peter Schranner
Renata Scotto
Erna Spoorenberg
Heribert Steinbach
Thomas Stewart
Gerhard Stolze
Lorenzo Testi
Marjorie Thomas
Hertha Topper
Tatiana Troyanos
Astrid Varnay
Ivo Vinco
Heinrich Weber
Bernd Weikl
Peter Witsch
Fritz Wunderlich
Geza Anda (piano)
Alfred Brendel (piano)
Rudolf Firkusny (piano)
Wilhelm Kempff (piano)
Rudolf Koeckert (violin)
Rafael Kubelik (piano)
Karl Leister (clarinet)
Henryk Szeryng (violin)
Alexander Tcherepnin (piano)
Margrit Weber (piano)
Zvi Zeitlin (violin)
Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks
Chor des Norddeutschen Rundfunks
Chor des Westdeutschen Rundfunks
Coro del Teatro alla Scala di Milano
Regensburger Domspatzen
Tolzer Knabenchor
Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks
Berliner Philharmoniker
Boston Symphony Orchestra
The Cleveland Orchestra
Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam
English Chamber Orchestra
Israel Philharmonic Orchestra
London Symphony Orchestra
Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala di Milano
Orchestre de Paris
Wiener Philharmoniker

Conductor

Rafael Kubelik

Works

Bartok, Bela

Concerto for Orchestra, Sz116 BB123

Beethoven, Ludwig van

Leonore Overture no.3 in C major, op.72b
Symphonies 1-9 (complete)
Symphony no.2 in D major, op.36
Symphony no.3 in E flat major, op.55 'Eroica'

Berg, Alban

Violin Concerto 'To the Memory of an Angel'

Bruckner, Anton

Symphony no.4 in in E flat major 'Romantic'

Dvorak, Antonin

Falla, Manuel de

Noches en los Jardines de Espana (Nights in the Gardens of Spain)

Gluck, Christoph Willibald

Iphigenie en Tauride (excerpts in German)

Grieg, Edvard

Piano Concerto in A minor, op.16

Handel, George Frideric

Music for the Royal Fireworks, HWV351
Serse (Xerxes), HWV40 (excerpts in German)
Water Music Suite

Hartmann, Karl Amadeus

Symphony no.4
Symphony no.8

Haydn, Franz Joseph

Mass in C major, Hob.XXII:9 'Missa in tempore belli', 'Paukenmesse'

Janacek, Leos

Capriccio for piano (left hand) and chamber ensemble, 'Vzdor', JWVII/12
Concertino, JWVII/11
Glagolitic Mass, JWIII/9
Sinfonietta
Taras Bulba
The Diary of one who Disappeared

Kubelik, Rafael

Forme per archi (4)

Mahler, Gustav

Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen (Songs of a Wayfarer)
Symphonies 1-9 (complete)

Martinon, Jean

Violin Concerto no.2, op.51

Martinu, Bohuslav

Piano Concerto no.5, H366 'Fantasia concertante'

Mendelssohn, Felix

A Midsummer Night's Dream: Incidental Music, op.61
A Midsummer Night's Dream: Overture, op.21

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

Palestrina

Gurrelieder
Piano Concerto, op.42
Violin Concerto, op.36

Schumann, Robert

Genoveva, op.81

» Overture

Introduction and Allegro appassionato in G major, op.92
Manfred Overture, op.115
Piano Concerto in A minor, op.54
Symphonies 1-4 (complete)

Smetana, Bedrich

Hakon Jarl, op.16
Ma vlast (My Country)
Richard III, op.11
The Prague Carnival
Wallenstein's Camp, op.14

Stravinsky, Igor

Circus Polka
Scherzo a la russe

Tcherepnin, Alexander

Piano Concerto no.2, op.26
Piano Concerto no.5, op.96

Verdi, Giuseppe

Rigoletto

Wagner, Richard

Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg

» Prelude to Act 1

Lohengrin
Siegfried Idyll, WWV103
Tristan und Isolde

» Prelude and Liebestod

Weber, Carl Maria von

Abu Hassan, J106

» Overture

Clarinet Concerto no.1 in F minor, op.73 J114
Der Freischutz, J277

» Overture

Euryanthe, J291

» Overture

Jubel-Ouverture (Jubilee Overture), op.59 J245
Oberon, J306
Preciosa, J279

» Overture

Artists

Conductor

Rafael Kubelik

About

The entirety of Rafael Kubelík's recordings for the Yellow Label, united for the first time in one edition. Featuring his justly famed Beethoven cycle with nine different orchestras, and including pioneering cycles of Dvořák’s and Mahler’s symphonies, as well as standard-setting recordings of works by Janáček, Orff and Smetana.

- Original cover art on sleeves
- 120-page booklet with new liner notes by Rob Cowan

‘It has the kind of freshness and vigor that remind one of what it was like to hear this piece for the very first time. … Kubelík has captured the enthusiasm of his players and generates a sense of excitement and poetry. ... The recording has great dynamic range and encompasses the most featherweight string “pianissimo” to the fullest orchestral “tutti” without discomfort ... Very special, very Kubelík.’ – Robert Leighton, Andrew Achenbach, Gramophone, June 2016 on Dvořák 9

‘The Beethoven cycle is “very Kubelík” in that it goes global, with each symphony calling on a different national orchestra, highlights being the Berlin Phil “Eroica” (full-bodied and finely detailed), the Israel Phil Fourth (an expressive Adagio and a fiery finale) and the Munich “Choral”, where Kubelík realizes the work’s many daring prophecies ... And yet for me the high point of the entire set is Kubelik’s reading of the Seventh, Mahler as open-minded Bohemian, joker, romantic, the two atmospheric “Nachtmusik” movements quietly playful, the Scherzo a slithery reptile, the ragbag finale unexpectedly conclusive ...’ – Rob Cowan, Gramophone, August 2014 on the Symphony Edition from Universal Italy

‘The poet among Mahler conductors delivers a performance filled with imagination and delight.’ – Michael McManus, Gramophone, March 2010 on Mahler 1

‘Má vlast was very memorable for its great, rich orchestral sound and the opportunity to perform it with Kubelík, a giant of his generation. He truly lived that piece. One could feel his identity through it, his patriotic pride.’ – Ronald Barron BSO trombonist, section member 1970–75; principal trombone 1975–2008

‘Kubelík’s Bartók Concerto for Orchestra was the best interpretation I ever played. I went on to play the piece with many other conductors after Kubelík, and nothing ever came close to his interpretation.’ – Cecylia Arzewski, BSO violinist, 1970–1987