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Mendelssohn & Kubelík: Homage to Jan Kubelík / Šporcl, Brauner, Prague SO
Haenssler Classic

Mendelssohn & Kubelík: Homage to Jan Kubelík / Šporcl, Brauner, Prague SO

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Details

Composer
Felix Mendelssohn, Jan Kubelik
Artist
Pavel, Tomas, Šporcl, Brauner
Format
CD
Label
Haenssler Classic
Released
Oct 07, 2022
Catalog #
HC22065
UPC
881488220650

About

Kubelík’s star began to wane in the years before World War I. Some felt he had gone off the boil but it was more a question of his public turning to new idols, Elman and Vecsey. In 1915 he retired to take composition seriously, not resuming his concert career until 1920. He toured Britain 20 times from 1900 to 1934 (packing the Royal Albert Hall with 7,000 people in 1926) and the U.S. many times up to 1938 (6,000 heard him at the New York Hippodrome in 1920-21). He commanded a wide range of music and in Central Europe he is remembered as a great musician. He died in Prague on 5 December 1940. The main fruits of Kubelík’s five-year break were his first three Violin Concertos, published in Prague in 1920. Of the eventual series of six, Pavel Šporcl says: ‘They are technically very demanding and musically extremely interesting.’ The First Concerto in C major, which he plays here, is a melodious Late Romantic work, well tailored to a front-line virtuoso’s strengths, and it should not have fallen out of the repertoire. Kubelík emerged from his purdah to première it at the Grosse Musikvereinssaal in Vienna on 29 January 1917, Nedbal conducting the Tonkünstler Orchestra.

Tracklist 6 tracks

  1. 1 I. Allegro moderato 16:53
    Track
    1
    Title
    I. Allegro moderato
    Duration
    16:53
    Composer
    Jan Kubelík
    Performer
    Pavel Šporcl
    Ensemble
    Prague Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    Tomas Brauner
  2. 2 II. Andante cantabile 09:01
    Track
    2
    Title
    II. Andante cantabile
    Duration
    09:01
    Composer
    Jan Kubelík
    Performer
    Pavel Šporcl
    Ensemble
    Prague Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    Tomas Brauner
  3. 3 III. Allegro molto, ma non troppo 08:32
    Track
    3
    Title
    III. Allegro molto, ma non troppo
    Duration
    08:32
    Composer
    Jan Kubelík
    Performer
    Pavel Šporcl
    Ensemble
    Prague Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    Tomas Brauner
  4. 4 I. Allegro molto appassionato - 13:44
    Track
    4
    Title
    I. Allegro molto appassionato -
    Duration
    13:44
    Composer
    Felix Mendelssohn
    Performer
    Pavel Šporcl
    Ensemble
    Prague Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    Tomas Brauner
  5. 5 II. Andante - 08:02
    Track
    5
    Title
    II. Andante -
    Duration
    08:02
    Composer
    Felix Mendelssohn
    Performer
    Pavel Šporcl
    Ensemble
    Prague Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    Tomas Brauner
  6. 6 III. Allegro molto vivace 06:45
    Track
    6
    Title
    III. Allegro molto vivace
    Duration
    06:45
    Composer
    Felix Mendelssohn
    Performer
    Pavel Šporcl
    Ensemble
    Prague Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    Tomas Brauner