Carlos Kleiber (3 July 1930 - 13 July 2004) was a German-born Austrian cond… Read Full Bio ↴Carlos Kleiber (3 July 1930 - 13 July 2004) was a German-born Austrian conductor.
He was born as Karl Ludwig Kleiber in Berlin, the son of the Austrian conductor Erich Kleiber and Ruth Goodrich, an American. In 1935, the Kleiber family emigrated to Buenos Aires, after Erich Kleiber had resigned his post at the Berlin Opera in protest over the Nazi Party's policies. Karl's name became Carlos. As a youth, he had an English governess, grew up in English boarding schools in Argentina and later studied in New York and Zurich. He also composed, sang, and played piano and timpani. While his father noticed his son's musical talents, Erich Kleiber nevertheless dissuaded Carlos from pursuing a musical career: "What a pity the boy is musically talented", wrote his father to a friend.
Carlos Kleiber initially studied chemistry in Zürich, but soon decided to dedicate himself to music. He was repetiteur at the Gartnerplatz Theatre in Munich in 1952, and became Kapellmeister at Potsdam in 1954. From 1958 to 1964 he was Kapellmeister at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Düsseldorf and Duisburg, and then at the Opera in Zürich from 1964 to 1966. Between 1966 and 1973 he was first Kapellmeister in Stuttgart, his last permanent post. During the following years, he often conducted at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich.
During his freelance career, Kleiber restricted his conducting appearances to a select number of occasions. He made his British debut in 1966 with a performance at the Edinburgh Festival of Alban Berg's opera Wozzeck, a work his father had conducted at its premiere in 1925. He made his Bayreuth debut in 1974 with a performance of Richard Wagner's Tristan und Isolde.
His American debut came in 1978 with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, where he again conducted in 1983, his only US orchestra appearances. His New York Metropolitan Opera debut was in 1988, conducting Giacomo Puccini's La bohème with Luciano Pavarotti and Mirella Freni. In 1989, following Herbert von Karajan's resignation from the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Kleiber was offered, and declined, the post of the orchestra's next music director.[6] Kleiber returned to the Met in 1990 to conduct Otello and Der Rosenkavalier.
Kleiber kept out of the public eye and reportedly never gave an official interview. After he resigned from the Bavarian State Opera, his appearances became less frequent, and he made only a few recordings. Most of these are regarded as very fine; his versions of Ludwig van Beethoven's fifth and seventh symphonies with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra and of the Symphony No. 4 and No. 7 (Beethoven) with the Bavarian State Orchestra are particularly notable. Other notable recordings include Johannes Brahms' Symphony No. 4 and Franz Schubert's third and eighth ("Unfinished") symphonies, also with the Vienna Philharmonic, recordings of Dvořák's Concerto for piano and orchestra with Sviatoslav Richter, Carl Maria von Weber's Der Freischütz, Johann Strauss' Die Fledermaus, Giuseppe Verdi's La Traviata and Richard Wagner's Tristan und Isolde.
Kleiber's unique conducting style is preserved on video in a number of performances: Beethoven's Symphony No. 4 and Symphony No. 7 from the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Johann Strauss' Die Fledermaus from Munich, Richard Strauss' Der Rosenkavalier from both Munich and Vienna, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's 36th symphony and Brahms' second symphony from the Musikverein in Vienna ; Beethoven's Coriolan Overture, Mozart's 33rd and Brahms' fourth symphonies from Munich and Bizet's Carmen again from Vienna. He led the New Year's Concert of the Vienna Philharmonic in 1989 and 1992, and these are both preserved on video.
He effectively retired from concert life in the early 1990s, occasionally appearing to give private concerts or benefit concerts. For one such event in Ingolstadt , instead of the usual fee, Kleiber received a new Audi made to his specifications. In the opinion of many of his colleagues and audiences who have experienced his meticulously rehearsed but ever spontaneous and inspired performances, this eccentric genius is the greatest conductor of all time, first among equals, despite the paucity of his appearances.
He is buried in the Slovenian village of Konjšica near Litija in 2004, together with his wife Stanislava Brezovar, a ballet dancer, who died 7 months earlier. He and his wife had two children, a son, Marko, and a daughter, Lillian.
Official discography (complete)
1973: Carl Maria von Weber: Der Freischütz, Staatskapelle Dresden, DG. Soloists: Gundula Janowitz, Edith Mathis, Peter Schreier, Theo Adam, Bernd Weikl, Siegfried Vogel, Franz Crass.
1973: R.Strauss : Der Rosenkavalier - complete, Orfeo D'or
1974: Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 5, Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Deutsche Grammophon.
1975: Johann Strauss II: Die Fledermaus, Orchestra of the Bavarian State Opera, Munich, Deutsche Grammophon. Soloists: Hermann Prey, Julia Varady, Lucia Popp, René Kollo, Ivan Rebroff, Bernd Weikl.
1975-1976: Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 7, Vienna Philharmonic, Deutsche Grammophon.
1976: Antonín Dvořák: Concerto for piano and orchestra, Orchestra of the Bavarian State Opera, EMI. Piano: Sviatoslav Richter.
1976-1977: Giuseppe Verdi: La traviata, Orchestra of the Bavarian State Opera, Deutsche Grammophon. Soloists: Ileana Cotrubaş, Plácido Domingo, Sherrill Milnes.
1978: Franz Schubert: Symphony No. 3, Vienna Philharmonic, Deutsche Grammophon.
1978: Franz Schubert: Symphony No. 8 "Unfinished", Vienna Philharmonic, Deutsche Grammophon.
1980: Johannes Brahms: Symphony No. 4, Vienna Philharmonic, Deutsche Grammophon[17].
1980-1982: Richard Wagner: Tristan und Isolde, Staatskapelle Dresden, Deutsche Grammophon. Soloists: René Kollo, Margaret Price, Brigitte Fassbaender, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Kurt Moll.
1982-1983: Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 4, Symphony No. 6, Symphony No. 7, Orchestra of the Bavarian State Opera, Orfeo.
1989: Vienna New Year's Concert, Vienna Philharmonic, Sony.
1992: Vienna New Year's Concert, Vienna Philharmonic, Sony.
Official DVD releases
1970: "The Great conductors", TDK and Arthaus. Overtures: Der Freischütz & Die Fledermaus Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra (rehearsals)
1978: Georges Bizet: Carmen, Vienna Philharmonic, TDK. Soloists: Elena Obraztsova, Plácido Domingo, Yuri Mazurok, Isobel Buchanan.
1979: Richard Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier, Orchestra of the Bavarian State Opera, Deutsche Grammophon. Soloists: Gwyneth Jones, Brigitte Fassbaender, Lucia Popp, Francisco Araiza.
1983: Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 4, Symphony No. 7, Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam, Philips.
1986: Johann Strauss II: Die Fledermaus, Orchestra of the Bavarian State Opera, Deutsche Grammophon. Soloists: Pamela Coburn, Brigitte Fassbaender, Janet Perry, Eberhard Wächter.
1989: Vienna New Year's Concert, Vienna Philharmonic, Deutsche Grammophon.
1991: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Symphony No. 36, Johannes Brahms: Symphony No. 2, Vienna Philharmonic, Philips.
1992: Vienna New Year's Concert, Vienna Philharmonic, Philips.
1994: Richard Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier, Orchestra of the Vienna State Opera, Deutsche Grammophon. Soloists: Felicity Lott, Kurt Moll, Anne Sofie von Otter, Gottfried Hornik, Barbara Bonney, Heinz Zednik.
1996: Ludwig van Beethoven: "Coriolan" Overture, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Symphony No. 33, Johannes Brahms: Symphony No. 4, Bavarian State Orchestra, Deutsche Grammophon
He was born as Karl Ludwig Kleiber in Berlin, the son of the Austrian conductor Erich Kleiber and Ruth Goodrich, an American. In 1935, the Kleiber family emigrated to Buenos Aires, after Erich Kleiber had resigned his post at the Berlin Opera in protest over the Nazi Party's policies. Karl's name became Carlos. As a youth, he had an English governess, grew up in English boarding schools in Argentina and later studied in New York and Zurich. He also composed, sang, and played piano and timpani. While his father noticed his son's musical talents, Erich Kleiber nevertheless dissuaded Carlos from pursuing a musical career: "What a pity the boy is musically talented", wrote his father to a friend.
Carlos Kleiber initially studied chemistry in Zürich, but soon decided to dedicate himself to music. He was repetiteur at the Gartnerplatz Theatre in Munich in 1952, and became Kapellmeister at Potsdam in 1954. From 1958 to 1964 he was Kapellmeister at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Düsseldorf and Duisburg, and then at the Opera in Zürich from 1964 to 1966. Between 1966 and 1973 he was first Kapellmeister in Stuttgart, his last permanent post. During the following years, he often conducted at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich.
During his freelance career, Kleiber restricted his conducting appearances to a select number of occasions. He made his British debut in 1966 with a performance at the Edinburgh Festival of Alban Berg's opera Wozzeck, a work his father had conducted at its premiere in 1925. He made his Bayreuth debut in 1974 with a performance of Richard Wagner's Tristan und Isolde.
His American debut came in 1978 with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, where he again conducted in 1983, his only US orchestra appearances. His New York Metropolitan Opera debut was in 1988, conducting Giacomo Puccini's La bohème with Luciano Pavarotti and Mirella Freni. In 1989, following Herbert von Karajan's resignation from the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Kleiber was offered, and declined, the post of the orchestra's next music director.[6] Kleiber returned to the Met in 1990 to conduct Otello and Der Rosenkavalier.
Kleiber kept out of the public eye and reportedly never gave an official interview. After he resigned from the Bavarian State Opera, his appearances became less frequent, and he made only a few recordings. Most of these are regarded as very fine; his versions of Ludwig van Beethoven's fifth and seventh symphonies with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra and of the Symphony No. 4 and No. 7 (Beethoven) with the Bavarian State Orchestra are particularly notable. Other notable recordings include Johannes Brahms' Symphony No. 4 and Franz Schubert's third and eighth ("Unfinished") symphonies, also with the Vienna Philharmonic, recordings of Dvořák's Concerto for piano and orchestra with Sviatoslav Richter, Carl Maria von Weber's Der Freischütz, Johann Strauss' Die Fledermaus, Giuseppe Verdi's La Traviata and Richard Wagner's Tristan und Isolde.
Kleiber's unique conducting style is preserved on video in a number of performances: Beethoven's Symphony No. 4 and Symphony No. 7 from the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Johann Strauss' Die Fledermaus from Munich, Richard Strauss' Der Rosenkavalier from both Munich and Vienna, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's 36th symphony and Brahms' second symphony from the Musikverein in Vienna ; Beethoven's Coriolan Overture, Mozart's 33rd and Brahms' fourth symphonies from Munich and Bizet's Carmen again from Vienna. He led the New Year's Concert of the Vienna Philharmonic in 1989 and 1992, and these are both preserved on video.
He effectively retired from concert life in the early 1990s, occasionally appearing to give private concerts or benefit concerts. For one such event in Ingolstadt , instead of the usual fee, Kleiber received a new Audi made to his specifications. In the opinion of many of his colleagues and audiences who have experienced his meticulously rehearsed but ever spontaneous and inspired performances, this eccentric genius is the greatest conductor of all time, first among equals, despite the paucity of his appearances.
He is buried in the Slovenian village of Konjšica near Litija in 2004, together with his wife Stanislava Brezovar, a ballet dancer, who died 7 months earlier. He and his wife had two children, a son, Marko, and a daughter, Lillian.
Official discography (complete)
1973: Carl Maria von Weber: Der Freischütz, Staatskapelle Dresden, DG. Soloists: Gundula Janowitz, Edith Mathis, Peter Schreier, Theo Adam, Bernd Weikl, Siegfried Vogel, Franz Crass.
1973: R.Strauss : Der Rosenkavalier - complete, Orfeo D'or
1974: Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 5, Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Deutsche Grammophon.
1975: Johann Strauss II: Die Fledermaus, Orchestra of the Bavarian State Opera, Munich, Deutsche Grammophon. Soloists: Hermann Prey, Julia Varady, Lucia Popp, René Kollo, Ivan Rebroff, Bernd Weikl.
1975-1976: Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 7, Vienna Philharmonic, Deutsche Grammophon.
1976: Antonín Dvořák: Concerto for piano and orchestra, Orchestra of the Bavarian State Opera, EMI. Piano: Sviatoslav Richter.
1976-1977: Giuseppe Verdi: La traviata, Orchestra of the Bavarian State Opera, Deutsche Grammophon. Soloists: Ileana Cotrubaş, Plácido Domingo, Sherrill Milnes.
1978: Franz Schubert: Symphony No. 3, Vienna Philharmonic, Deutsche Grammophon.
1978: Franz Schubert: Symphony No. 8 "Unfinished", Vienna Philharmonic, Deutsche Grammophon.
1980: Johannes Brahms: Symphony No. 4, Vienna Philharmonic, Deutsche Grammophon[17].
1980-1982: Richard Wagner: Tristan und Isolde, Staatskapelle Dresden, Deutsche Grammophon. Soloists: René Kollo, Margaret Price, Brigitte Fassbaender, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Kurt Moll.
1982-1983: Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 4, Symphony No. 6, Symphony No. 7, Orchestra of the Bavarian State Opera, Orfeo.
1989: Vienna New Year's Concert, Vienna Philharmonic, Sony.
1992: Vienna New Year's Concert, Vienna Philharmonic, Sony.
Official DVD releases
1970: "The Great conductors", TDK and Arthaus. Overtures: Der Freischütz & Die Fledermaus Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra (rehearsals)
1978: Georges Bizet: Carmen, Vienna Philharmonic, TDK. Soloists: Elena Obraztsova, Plácido Domingo, Yuri Mazurok, Isobel Buchanan.
1979: Richard Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier, Orchestra of the Bavarian State Opera, Deutsche Grammophon. Soloists: Gwyneth Jones, Brigitte Fassbaender, Lucia Popp, Francisco Araiza.
1983: Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 4, Symphony No. 7, Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam, Philips.
1986: Johann Strauss II: Die Fledermaus, Orchestra of the Bavarian State Opera, Deutsche Grammophon. Soloists: Pamela Coburn, Brigitte Fassbaender, Janet Perry, Eberhard Wächter.
1989: Vienna New Year's Concert, Vienna Philharmonic, Deutsche Grammophon.
1991: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Symphony No. 36, Johannes Brahms: Symphony No. 2, Vienna Philharmonic, Philips.
1992: Vienna New Year's Concert, Vienna Philharmonic, Philips.
1994: Richard Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier, Orchestra of the Vienna State Opera, Deutsche Grammophon. Soloists: Felicity Lott, Kurt Moll, Anne Sofie von Otter, Gottfried Hornik, Barbara Bonney, Heinz Zednik.
1996: Ludwig van Beethoven: "Coriolan" Overture, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Symphony No. 33, Johannes Brahms: Symphony No. 4, Bavarian State Orchestra, Deutsche Grammophon
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Brahms: Symphony No.4 in E minor Op.98
Carlos Kleiber Lyrics
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Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) - Symphony No.4 in E minor Op.98
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00:00 Allegro non troppo
12:49 Andante moderato
24:13 Allegro giocoso - Poco meno presto - Tempo I
30:20 Allegro energico e passionato - Più allegro
Wiener Philharmoniker
Carlos Kleiber
Recorded in 1980, at Vienna City
New mastering in 2021 by AB for CMRR
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Carlos Kleiber, while keeping a perfect coherence from the first to the last bar, does not seem to submit to any predictable way of treating the structure of this symphony, which is difficult to handle because of its richness of inspiration. Carlos Kleiber's master stroke is explained by an immense variety of phrasing. The tempo is never set in stone, it can be wide or narrow, serving the most serene or the most tense and dramatic climates. Even under tension, elegance is the order of the day and the Vienna Philharmonic responds to its slightest inflection. This recording was awarded the World Recording Prize.
Brahms - Symphonies Nos.1,2,3,4 NEW MASTERING (Ct.rc.: Eduard Van Beinum, Concertgebouworkest): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeUteN1t-G0&list=PL3UZpQL9LIxOfigsjIfHNN6AuqZVVmfGR&index=3&t=151s
Johannes Brahms PLAYLIST (reference recordings): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfBg2UnQcZY&list=PL3UZpQL9LIxOfigsjIfHNN6AuqZVVmfGR&index=4&t=3177s
Lotus white
in front of me
By the time the person walking ahead disappears
A man's house is darkened
The wind will get colder
The dry leaves that have fallen to the ground roll endlessly lightly on the floor
who made a forest here
Who gave birth to a child in this forest and built a human city?
Long-lived people disappear
The hills that flowed down from high places have disappeared.
Only the oak tree is alive
The history of the oak tree is nowhere
hard winter rain
The night is deep, a man is lying on that cold pavilion
A figure in which one person is added to the other
He takes off his black coat and puts it on
Protruding from the cloak that did not cover the whole body
small and fine bare feet
young bare feet
street lamp lights
get wet in the rain
who gave birth to people here
Could it have become a city of people? The oak tree knows its history
I don't know how to go home on a cold winter evening
Trees getting brighter as it gets darker
who cut someone's arm
Does the tree sleep
..
Lyle Waller
My pa, he was a moonshine man,
A regular sort of fellar.
He kept Ma plastered for forty years
With the still he kept in the cellar.
I remember the folks who sampled his stuff -
The glassy looks on their faces.
One day our spaniel inhaled the fumes
And dropped dead at twenty paces.
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Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) - Symphony No.4 in E minor Op.98
Click to activate the English subtitles for the presentation (00:00-03:00)
00:00 Allegro non troppo
12:49 Andante moderato
24:13 Allegro giocoso - Poco meno presto - Tempo I
30:20 Allegro energico e passionato - Più allegro
Wiener Philharmoniker
Carlos Kleiber
Recorded in 1980, at Vienna City
New mastering in 2021 by AB for CMRR
🔊 FOLLOW US on SPOTIFY (Profil: CMRR) : https://spoti.fi/3016eVr
🔊 Download CMRR's recordings in High fidelity audio (QOBUZ) : https://bit.ly/2M1Eop2
Carlos Kleiber, while keeping a perfect coherence from the first to the last bar, does not seem to submit to any predictable way of treating the structure of this symphony, which is difficult to handle because of its richness of inspiration. Carlos Kleiber's master stroke is explained by an immense variety of phrasing. The tempo is never set in stone, it can be wide or narrow, serving the most serene or the most tense and dramatic climates. Even under tension, elegance is the order of the day and the Vienna Philharmonic responds to its slightest inflection. This recording was awarded the World Recording Prize.
Brahms - Symphonies Nos.1,2,3,4 NEW MASTERING (Ct.rc.: Eduard Van Beinum, Concertgebouworkest): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeUteN1t-G0&list=PL3UZpQL9LIxOfigsjIfHNN6AuqZVVmfGR&index=3&t=151s
Johannes Brahms PLAYLIST (reference recordings): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfBg2UnQcZY&list=PL3UZpQL9LIxOfigsjIfHNN6AuqZVVmfGR&index=4&t=3177s
호로비츠블라디미르
When I heard the news of Kleiber's death, I felt like my distant uncle died. Rest in peace, Maestro. This recording is the best Brahms ever.
Berto3141
Sorry, that's not the case. Check out the HD video of Carlos conducting the BSO in JB's 4th recorded in Munich in 1996. It's superior even to this excellent performance. The driven performance of Carlos conducting the Berlin Phil in 1994 is also mind-boggling, even if the sound quality is mediocre.
jesus tovar
A beautiful remastering, Carlos Kleiber was such an unique conductor, Brahms symphonies were really his especiallity and this recording proves it, still one of the best Brahms 4 to put ever on record.
Lydmila Max
Брамс сам по себе великолепен, а в исполнении Венского симфонического оркестра непревзойденный. Спасибо за очень качественную запись. Привет из Киева. Всем мира и добра.
Matteo Vasta
Sono pienamente d’accordo
Elena Kun
Какая работа, какое исполнение !
Спасибо за это чудо , Карлос Кляйбер !
Shin-i-chi Kozima
The overwhelming wonderfulness of this performance‘s sound quality is off the charts.
Classic music is all about sound quality
Costas Douligeris
Thank you very much for the excellent classical music offering to us and listening most of the time!!
Michele Bui
The best performance of this Symphony!!!