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Carlos Kleiber’s appearances, whether
in the concert hall or opera house, were legendary both for their
rarity and the sublime quality of the music-making. It is no exaggeration
to say that Kleiber was most sought-after and highly-regarded conductor
of the late 20th century.
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Carlos Kleiber’s appearances, whether
in the concert hall or opera house, were legendary both for their
rarity and the sublime quality of the music-making. It is no exaggeration
to say that Kleiber was most sought-after and highly-regarded conductor
of the late 20th century (with the debatable exception of Herbert
von Karajan). Kleiber’s recent death, at the age of 74, has cost
classical music one of its most charismatic yet elusive figures (Kleiber
never gave interviews), and his relatively few excursions into the
recording studio have left the musical world with a frustratingly
small number of recordings, albeit all of them of the highest quality.
Thus we are particularly fortunate that several concerts were filmed
during his career, including thi, which he gave in Vienna’s glamorous
Musikverein in October 1991, devoted to Mozart’s ‘Linz’
Symphony and Brahms’s Second. The hallmarks of Kleiber’s
conducting – his minimal but graceful gestures, the authority
he conveys from a thorough understanding and faultless memory of the
score, plus his hypnotic command of his musicians – are all clearly
in evidence here.
This DVD release joins two other Kleiber DVDs, his 1983 performance
of Beethoven’s Fourth and Seventh Symphonies, given with the
Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam, and the second of the two New
Year’s Concerts he gave, that held in 1992.
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1 Titles 1.08
2 I Adagio — Allegro spiritoso 10.46
3 II Andante 7.25
4 III Menuetto 3.55
5 IV Finale: Presto 7.53
Johannes Brahms 1833–1897
Symphony No.2 in D major, op.73
6 Titles 0.43
7 I Allegro non troppo 14.49
8 II Adagio non troppo — L’istesso tempo, ma grazioso 9.43
9 III Allegretto grazioso (Quasi andantino) 5.24
10 IV Allegro con spirito 10.32
Wiener Philharmoniker
Carlos Kleiber
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| Colour |
6-7 October, 1991, Musikverein,
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English, French, German |
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