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In Reply to: RE: DVORAK! István Kertész! posted by Ivan303 on January 07, 2017 at 14:01:22
He was, as I understand it, quite popular with the musicians of the San Francisco symphony. Apparently during one concert, after a solo by then-concertmaster Stuart Canin, Kertesz flipped him a coin - Canin broke out laughing.
I have the complete Dvorak set with Kertesz, also the Kubelik, on LP. I have not compared most of the symphonies head to head - I want to do that someday.
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Family friends had those seats and I was able to hear him conduct the Dvorak Eighth after a forgotten undercard. I recall it was the eighth because at the same time I was rehearsing it with the Suburban Symphony.
From the Dress Circle all I remember of the concert was looking up and up and up at this towering madman waving his arms and hair around.
I was 16.
With what was called the Bavarian Symphony Orchestra, in English. This would have been about 1974, when I was the classical music critic for the UC Santa Barbara Nexus (student newspaper). I believe the concert was a Wagner overture (Tannhauser, perhaps), a work by Hartmann, and Beethoven's 7th. I loved that he split the violins left and right. I was actually seated next to the conductor of the Santa Barbara Symphony, who assured me that was an "old-fashioned practice".
Kubelik did great service to romantic music, early and late, and also to the various Czech composers. I own 3 of his versions of Ma Vlast! (Just need the Mercury with Chicago).
It was no coincidence that the concert broadcast on Kubelik's return to Prague, which included Ma Vlast, opened with music from Smetana's Libuse - that opera is a kind of Czech national opera (and actually full of beautiful, somewhat Wagnerian, music).
I saw him conduct Mahler 9 at Severance Hall; I was a little older than you. It was a memorable performance.
and most of the Kubelik as well.
As a vinyl guy with 3000+ LPs in the racks, I consider this latest re-master by DECCA as a real wonder.
The Requiem alone is nearly worth the price of admission and I'm not much of a 'Requiem' guy.
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