Rafael Kubelík was a Czech conductor and composer, one of the major conductors of the twentieth century. He was admired in Czech repertory, Mozart, Mahler and the broad central-European symphonic tradition.

In the Pristine catalogue he appears conducting Dvořák’s Stabat Mater with Bavarian Radio forces and an international solo quartet.

Kubelík’s conducting combined humane warmth, rhythmic life and structural integrity, with a special authority in music rooted in the Czech tradition.

His page is essential despite a compact catalogue footprint. Kubelík gives the Dvořák shelf a Czech heart with broad European lungs.