Blog for the great Austrian conductors Erich and Carlos Kleiber (Father and Son).
Постинги в блога от Ноември, 2008 г.
30.11.2008 17:50 -
The Conductor Who Could Not Tolerate Error by Harvey Sachs
Carlos Kleiber"s rehearsals for Wagner"s "Tristan und Isolde" at La Scala in Milan in the spring of 1978 were fraught and exhausting.
The opera had not been performed there for 13 seasons, and many younger members of the orchestra had ...
The opera had not been performed there for 13 seasons, and many younger members of the orchestra had ...
30.11.2008 17:40 -
Carlos Kleiber's death by Marc Bridle
The death of Carlos Kleiber at the age of 74 (and characteristically, his death on 13th July took almost a week to become public) ends perhaps the most infuriating career of any of the great conductors of the last century. His last publi...
28.11.2008 14:42 -
THE GREAT MAESTRO by Mark Audus and Tommy Vichev
A famous photograph taken at the 1929 Berlin Festival shows five great conductors at a reception to mark the visit of Toscanini and the La Scala Company. Toscanini himself is unmistakable, as are Bruno Walter and the towering Otto Klempe...
28.11.2008 14:40 -
THE MYTH CARLOS by Giorgio Vitali
One of the most famous conductors of the Twentieth Century - Carlos Kleiber, son of Erich Kleiber - has always been compared with his father. But that fact did not obstruct the revelation of his talent.
Carlos Kleiber is the greatest orc...
Carlos Kleiber is the greatest orc...
28.11.2008 14:38 -
THE SON OF A MINOR GOD by Fernando Peregrin Gutierrez
In Carlos Kleiber"s life there is plenty of material to please the admirers of biographic psychoanalysis. Kleiber is the son of a great conductor, the son of a minor God, perhaps the most modem of his generation, in a time called the Gol...
28.11.2008 14:37 -
THE MAVERICK by Norman Lebrecht
Carlos Kleiber is an enigma, perhaps even to himself. He was intended for a safer scientific occupation by his father, Erich, who endured a dozen desperate years in South America after leaving the Berlin State Opera in a clash with the N...
25.11.2008 17:36 -
Carlos Kleiber Is Dead, But For How Long? by David Hurwitz
The death of Carlos Kleiber on July 13 2004 at the age of 74 brings to a sudden end the sporadically active career of one of the most enigmatic yet respected conductors of this century. Of course, the respect to some extent stemmed from ...
25.11.2008 17:33 -
Carlos Kleiber: Not a great conductor by Norman Lebrecht
An exclusive new clique has formed in the world’s concert foyers. Following the sad death of the conductor Carlos Kleiber, a notoriously elusive performer, a silken cord of snobbishness now separates the few of us who witnessed the...
25.11.2008 15:07 -
Short Biography of Carlos Kleiber
The charismatic, eccentric and enigmatic conductor Carlos Kleiber became a legend during his lifetime. Although loved, even adored by musicians and the public, once established as a leading conductor, he refused to accept a permanent p...
13.11.2008 17:04 -
A rare touch of musical magic by Martin Kattle
Carlos Kleiber is a conductor with an unrivalled international reputation, yet he performs only rarely, makes few recordings and never gives interviews. This week he is in London for Otello with Placido Domingo for whom he is, quite simp...
13.11.2008 16:58 -
Complete Biography of Carlos Kleiber - Alexander Werner - Part Two
Complete Biography of Carlos Kleiber - Part Two
1981
1981
13.11.2008 16:53 -
Complete Biography of Carlos Kleiber - Alexander Werner - Part One
Complete Biography of Carlos Kleiber (1930-2004).
3 July 1930 - 13 July 2004
Carlos Kleiber was born in Berlin as the second child of Erich Kleiber, the General musical director of the State Opera “Unter ...
3 July 1930 - 13 July 2004
Carlos Kleiber was born in Berlin as the second child of Erich Kleiber, the General musical director of the State Opera “Unter ...