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Artist: Rafael Kubelik, Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Title: The Mercury Masters
Year Of Release: 2021
Label: Universal Music
Genre: Classical
Quality: FLAC (*tracks,covers)
Total Time: 10 CDs, 07:37:56 min
Total Size: 1,3 Gb

Groundbreaking technology, dynamic musical leadership, world-class orchestral playing: a brief marriage of lasting impact for the history of recorded music. To mark the 70th anniversary of Mercury Living Presence, this limited-edition box presents the Chicago Symphony/Rafael Kubelík recordings, more complete than any previous set, newly remastered and including never-before-published material.

The brief and turbulent tenure of Rafael Kubelík as the CSO’s music director has become the stuff of legend for its intense partisan hostility. When he arrived in Chicago in 1950 to replace Artur Rodzinski, the 36-year-old Kubelík had impressive credentials and a fast-growing list of triumphs in Europe. The city’s musical press had hung previous directors out to dry, including Rodzinski, but they subjected Kubelík to intense and sustained criticism of his programming and performances until he resigned in 1953.

Kubelík’s arrival coincided with the lapsing of the CSO’s previous recording contract and the almost immediate appearance of the ambitious Mercury label. The conductor later recalled how “a very clever team from Mercury turned up and established that the best microphone positioning was just a single one above my head…the resulting sound was identical to what I heard during the playing and didn’t need to be altered.”

CD 1
MODEST MUSSORGSKY (1839–1881)
Orchestrated by Maurice Ravel (1875–1937)
Pictures at an Exhibition

CD 2
BÉLA BARTÓK (1881–1945)
Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta, Sz. 106
Irwin Fischer, celesta
Edward Metzenger, timpani
Allen Graham, Lionel Sayers, Thomas Glenecke, percussion

ERNEST BLOCH (1880–1959)
Concerto Grosso for String Orchestra with Piano Obbligato*
George Schick, piano
*FIRST INTERNATIONAL RELEASE ON CD

CD 3
ANTONÍN DVOŘÁK (1841–1904)
Symphony No. 9 in E minor, Op. 95 ‘From the New World’

CD 4
PIOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY (1840–1893)
Symphony No. 4 in F minor, Op. 36
FIRST INTERNATIONAL RELEASE ON CD

CD 5
PIOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY (1840–1893)
Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Op. 74 ‘Pathétique’
FIRST INTERNATIONAL RELEASE ON CD

CD 6
JOHANNES BRAHMS (1833–1897)
Symphony No. 1 in C minor, Op. 68
FIRST INTERNATIONAL RELEASE ON CD

CD 7
BEDŘICH SMETANA (1824–1884)
Má vlast

CD 8
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART (1756–1791)
Symphony No. 38 in D major, KV 504 ‘Prague’
Symphony No. 34 in C major, KV 338*
*FIRST INTERNATIONAL RELEASE ON CD

CD 9
PAUL HINDEMITH (1895–1963)
Symphonic Metamorphosis on Themes by Carl Maria von Weber

ARNOLD SCHOENBERG (1874–1951)
Fünf Orchesterstücke, Op. 16

CD 10
PERSPECTIVE, THE FIRST REEL AND EXPERIMENTAL STEREO
Interview with Wilma Cozart Fine (Interviewer: Sedgwick Clark)

ERNEST BLOCH (1880–1959)
Concerto Grosso – First reel of tape, 23 April 1951*
PREVIOUSLY UNPUBLISHED

BERT WHYTE – THE EXPERIMENTAL STEREO RECORDINGS
BEDŘICH SMETANA (1824–1884)
Tábor (Má vlast) – stereo*

WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART (1756–1791)
Symphony No. 38 in D major, KV 504 ‘Prague’ – excerpts (stereo)*
*FIRST RELEASE ON MERCURY LIVING PRESENCE

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
RAFAEL KUBELÍK

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