I recently found Kubelik's live recording of Ma Vlast, played during the
first Prague Spring festival (the CD still says Made in Czechoslovakia).
I don't think it's possible to hear a better interpretation of this great
tone poem.

I have always been happy with my Macal version, and my Bruno Walter "Moldau
(Vltava)", but this recording, on Supraphon, makes me fear I may never
listen to those CDs again.  While in Prague I also purchased Neumann's Ma
Vlast (and a few other CDs I may write about as I listen to them), and
while it is elegant and beautiful, it too pales by comparison.  Kubelik
nails it from the opening harp of Vyserhad --incredibly powerful, yes a
powerful harp!-- to the final note of Blanik.  Wow!

As a postscript, I decided to listen to Kubelik's Slavonic Dances (DG
Originals) and now my Dohnyani will most likely gather dust...  I must now
find Kubelik doing the Brahms Hungarian Dances, and put my Masur at risk of
similar fate...

Miguel Muelle
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