RIP Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos

[gurnemanz]

Just heard about his death only a few days after he announced his retirement. Great man.... (and great name).

[richardfinegold]

I saw him Conduct Albeniz here a few years ago. Physically he was very frail but the music making had great vitality. Before that concert he was just a name to me.

[Richard Tarleton]

His 1967 recording of Rodrigo and Giuliani guitar concertos with Alirio Diaz (which I bought in 1970) is still available. He conducts one of the gems of my LP collection, Alicia de Larrocha's "Nights" (with Albeniz and Turina on side 2).

[PJPJ]

Ah, sad news indeed. RIP

[Keraulophone]

His Carmina Burana (with the New Philharmonia and Lucia Popp on top) is pretty classic - the Philharmonia Chorus were reputed to be the best symphony chorus in those days.

He conducted the RPO in a Brahms Requiem at St Paul's Cathedral that I sang in (City of London Festival, late 1970s), which seemed very grandiloquent at the time. The echo at the end of Der Gerechten Seelen sind was about 15 seconds.

(Yes, a great name.) RIP

[verismissimo]

Encouraged by the recent Falla thread, I invested (one penny) in RFdB's 1998 recording of The Three Cornered Hat and Love the Magician with the Orqestra Nacional de Espana.

Wonderful!

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Oh, this is sad news. RFdB brought such enthusiasm, zest and enjoyment to his Music-making - his concerts were life-affirming, fizzing occasions that made you feel as if all was right with the world: in every sense "Live" events. And the wattage of the chorus' licht in his recording of The Creation is second to none.

RIP, and thank you.

[Ferretfancy]

His EMI recording of La Vida Breve, made in Madrid with Victoria de Los Angeles is wonderfully atmospheric, as is his lovely recording of Nights in the Gardens of Spain with Gonzalo Soriano. I also treasure his recording of the Weber Clarinet Concertos with Gervase de Peyer.

There's also a good recording of Atlantida, that strange and incomplete Falla work.

Another great loss to music.

[BBMmk2]

The Grim Reaper at work again. Another sad day in music, especially if it is someone of note, as Rafael Frubeck de burgos. RIP

[cloughie]

The Grim Reaper at work again. Another sad day in music, especially if it is someone of note, as Rafael Frubeck de burgos. RIP

Indeed sad - he's one of those conductors who has been there throughout my recorded music buying career - did I really coin that phrase - no matter - but there are some real gems amongst his recordings - only recently I did the ZPP thing for a disc of Bartok and Kodaly Concerti for Orchestra on Collins Classics, for whom he made a number of good recordings . I also have a very good complete Daphnis (unfortunately blessed with a coupling of the B work) on Royal Classics. RIP RFdeB.

[slarty]

RIP. RFDB. Both he and Michelangeli participated in what must be one of the great live Grieg Piano Concerto performances ever - still available on BBC legends. Unforgettable .

[verismissimo]

I got out his classic recording of Mendelssohn's Elijah from 1968. Gwynneth Jones early in her career and not too wobbly. Janet Baker still in contralto mode and at her absolute best. Nicolai Gedda quite outstanding. Don't care much for DFD in it.

Taking JB's 'O rest in the Lord' to my desert island, wonderfully accompanied by Fruebeck's New Philharmonia.

[CallMePaul]

He also recorded a fine version of Carmen with Grace Bumbry in the title role and Jon Vickers as Don José. It is, I think, the first recorded version to use anything like an authentic version with spoken dialogue (I have a feeling that actors were used for this, though) rather than sung rectitives that were not written by Bizet.
RIP

[Barbirollians]

Sad news indeed - a cracking Creation and Elijah and benchmark Falla recordings but also a deeply felt and superb Mozart Requiem are among my favourite recordings of his - RIP

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

He also recorded a fine version of Carmen with Grace Bumbry in the title role and Jon Vickers as Don José. It is, I think, the first recorded version to use anything like an authentic version with spoken dialogue (I have a feeling that actors were used for this, though) rather than sung rectitives that were not written by Bizet.
RIP

- terrific performance from everybody. (I still have it on cassette tape somewhere.)