貝多芬: 第九號交響曲 / 莊嚴彌撒 庫貝利克 指揮 Rafael Kubelík / Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 & Missa solemnis (Live)

庫貝利克 指揮
巴伐利亞廣播交響樂團暨合唱團

Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks
Rafael Kubelík

As the head of the Symphony Orchestra
of Bavarian Radio, Rafael Kubelik was
one of the major personalities of postwar
German music life. His proverbial
modesty and his creed of absolute
faithfulness to the original work earned
him many admirers, especially during his
years in Munich as principal conductor
of the Symphony Orchestra of Bavarian
Radio (1961–79). Let it be noted that it
was less the person Kubelik that was
venerated, but rather his interpretation
of music: uncompromising concentration
on what was essential, unadulterated
and relevant in the best sense of the
word.

Examples of this can be shown by
these audio recordings of two of Ludwig
van Beethoven's best-known works, the
Missa Solemnis, in which Beethoven like
in no other work thematized his lifelong
struggle with faith, and the famous
Symphony No. 9, which by including
a choral movement broke with the
conventions of Viennese Classicism like
no other symphony of the time and was
viewed as a ground-breaking work.
With Helen Donath, Brigitte
Fassbaender, Peter Schreier, John
Shirley-Quirk and other voices from the
very top ‘league' of the concert and song
guard of the 1970s and 1980s, thes
Munich recordings also go far beyond the
status of historical sound documents –
they are veritable reference recordings!

Rainer Aschemeier