The Art of Rafael Kubelik

[Que]

Now Rafael Kubelík has entered my private Pantheon of preferred Mahler conductors - joining only Bruno Walter and Bernhard Haitink (and Willem Mengelberg, though there is only the complete recording of the 4th - which is still a thing of eternal beauty nevertheless) - I'd like some feedback on Kubelík's Mahler recordings.

Are the live Mahler recordings on Audite to be preferred in each case? (The 4th is lacking I believe)
Which symphonies are particularly successful?

Thanks!

Q

[The new erato]

  I still have the Life Magazine Warren Report issue -- Zapruder tape stills and all; turn the page after that article (written by Gerald Ford, no less) and the first eye catching thing you see are photos of Karajan and his wife in bikinis in their yacht on the Mediterranean. 

I'll take Kubelik over Karajan in bikini any time!

[sidoze]

Are the live Mahler recordings on Audite to be preferred in each case? (The 4th is lacking I believe)
Which symphonies are particularly successful?

only heard Das Lied (which doesn't have a studio counterpart anyway) and Sym 1 which was outstanding but I don't know the studio counterpart. You're welcome

[just Jeff]

I have not heard Dvorak's Slavonic Dances sound better than the 1975 Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra recordings on DG.  Both for sound quality and performances, they are knockouts.

It's no wonder that they keep getting reissued decade after decade.

[mc ukrneal]

I have not heard Dvorak's Slavonic Dances sound better than the 1975 Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra recordings on DG.  Both for sound quality and performances, they are knockouts.

It's no wonder that they keep getting reissued decade after decade.

I agree. They are fantastic!