Rafael Kubelík conducts Haydn, Schoenberg & Tchaikovsky
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LUCERNE FESTIVAL Historic Performances, Vol. 18
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BCA
2022.09.02
"Tchaikovsky ist wohl kaum je intensiver [...] und persönlicher erklungen als damals in Luzern. [...] Wahrhafter kann Musik und deren Interpretation nicht sein." (Online Merker)
"In between explosive passages bursting with energy, there are beautifully warm and colorful moments full of tenderness, and this spontaneous contrasting makes the music immensely exciting." (Pizzicato)
In the summer of 1968, a few days after the brutal suppression of the “Prague Spring”, the Czech émigré Rafael Kubelík conducted a gripping concert in his adopted home city of Lucerne: a Haydn Symphony, full of joie de vivre, and a passionately glowing account of Tchaikovsky’s Fourth Symphony frame Schoenberg’s Piano Concerto, played by the British piano legend John Ogdon in his only appearance at Lucerne Festival.