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Record Collector | Mons, Belgium | 02/16/2007

(5 out of 5 stars)

""Strange to relate that Rafael Kubelik's orchestral layout (at least as reproduced on his EMI recordings) reverts to the 'bass on the right, treble on the left' principle favoured by so many stereo-era conductors, although his post-EMI Munich sessions again reveal divided violins. Best here are the Martinu and Janacek items, Les fresques de Piero della Francesca in particular benefiting from warmly traced detail and homogeneous recording quality. The Bartok Concerto for Orchestra is characterful, the Hungarian Dances, precisely pointed and brightly lit, while the two VPO symphony recordings share flexible phrasing and a certain low-key sense of drama."

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