2. It wasn't a live recording with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, it was a studio recording.
3. Kubelik did not work with the Berlin Philharmonic on "My Country", it was Karajan who worked with the Berlin Philharmonic on this "My Country". However, Kubelik did work with the Czech (his home country) Philharmonic Orchestra on the song "My Country", and this version is a live recording.
CD recordings of the symphonic suite of poems "My Country" are not hard to find on the audio-visual market, and one of the most famous is undoubtedly the version conducted by maestro Kubelik. Kubelik is not only a famous Czech conductor with worldwide influence, but also a composer. born in Biholy on June 29, 1914, he is the son of the famous violinist J. Kubelik. Kubelik studied at the Prague Conservatory of Music, and after graduation toured the world as his father's piano accompanist, making his debut with the Czech Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra in 1934, where he was promoted to permanent conductor two years later, and then to music director of the Brno Opera House from 1939 to 1941, before rejoining the Czech Philharmonic in 1942. After the Second World War, he worked as a guest conductor in England, and after 1950, he was the conductor and music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Covent Garden Opera House in London, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra in Munich, and the Metropolitan Opera in the U.S.A. He became a Swiss citizen in 1973. His conducting style is gentle and full of inner passion. The most collectible Kubelik editions of "My Country" are the following two:
I. Boston Symphony Orchestra Edition
DG 429 183-2
This is Kubelik's second recording of the piece, and it's also a rather sound-heavy recording. Kubelik left his homeland in 1948, but always felt a deep longing for his native land, and this 1971 recording, in which the maestro puts his sincere feelings for his country into Smetana's music, is much more idealized and exciting than the previous ones. At the same time, the acoustics of the recordings are so good that one can't help but be impressed. It was recommended by Japan's Art of Recording as the best of the best.
The 1990 Prague Spring Edition
SUPRAPHON 11 1208-2
This is a live recording of Kubelik conducting the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra at the opening ceremony of the Prague Spring in 1990. It is of great historical significance. As we know, the annual Prague Spring Festival is one of the most important musical events in the world, having started in 1946, and in 1990 it was destined to go down in history as the first time that the Czech Republic, as an independent country, had organized a music festival. The 1990 Prague Spring Festival is destined to go down in history as an exceptional event, the first to be held in the Czech Republic since its rebirth as an independent nation. Personally, it was the last time that Kubelik conducted the symphonic suite "My Country". Although Kubelik was already the conductor of the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra in 1936, at the age of 24, he refused to cooperate with Nazi Germany and was forced to leave the country in 1948. In 1948, he was forced to leave his country and traveled to Europe and the United States. After forty-two years of wandering, the wandering wanderer set foot again on the homeland that he had long been away from and had been haunted by, and returned to his country that had gone through so many vicissitudes and internal and external troubles. At this moment, the performance of Smetana's "My Country" with the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, as the "father of Czech music", was meaningful to him. Here, the Czech Philharmonic and Kubelik, the renowned conductor of the nation, had a heart-to-heart, and thus the whole performance reached a state of blending - through the simple and sincere musical delineation they conveyed the same ****: pride in the great motherland and the wish for blessings. Although the sound of this recording is not very good compared to previous recordings, especially the famous recording by the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the significance of this recording is not as great as it should be. But the significance of this recording cannot be measured in terms of acoustics. Listening to this live recording is really like Gu Kai Zhi eating sugar cane, from the beginning to the root all the way down, gradually getting better and better. The orchestra grows more and more assertive and confident, spewing out a magnificent light that reflects the first few movements as if they were a colorful haze. This was not just an interpretation of Smetana's music, but an expression of the Czech nation's belief in the future through My Country.
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