I was fortunate enough to play for Kleiber in the LSO and to play Freichutz overture with him in the 1980s . He made everything he conducted feel like the greatest music ever written. I will never forget how fortunate I was Martin Gatt
I have no clue about music, don’t play a Instrument, can’t read notes,… I’m just a simple waitress. But I do love and respect passion and the will for perfection when I see it. Fascinating!
You're absolutely right, it's like a momentary inspiration that is born right before our eyes.This is the best speaker of many. Hello to you from Western Siberia, Russia
This visual document is priceless for true music lovers the world over. Incomparable Kleiber, and behaving as a gentleman to the players, as always. What a sound he gets from the strings at the sombre outset of the piece.
Carlos Kleiber - rehearsal Der Freischütz Overture in 1970 South German Radio Symphony Orchestra (the present: Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra) Sinfonieorchester des Süddeutschen Rundfunks (Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart des SWR)
Merci beaucoup pour le partage de ce document! C'est toujours un énorme plaisir que de voir le grand Carlos Kleiber et son art incomparable de la direction d'orchestre. Magnifique!
This genius & unique maestro had set such a very high standard for music interpretation & conducting that it's unfortunately impossible to have anyone who can match this level, neither now nor in future. Amazing person.
I don't speak German or Japanese but I do know that CK's finished products in performance are among the finest ever, indeed sometimes the gold standard.
Incredible genius. One of a kind whose like will never be matched. I am a symphonic conductor and I bow down to this great genius. PS The principal clarinet in the white turtle neck was a substitute and not quite up to snuff. Maestro didn't know this and spent so much time trying to improve his performance.
It doesn't exist such a thing as "The greatest". There are no "top-ten" when you talk about real art. Please. Kleiber, Karajan, Celibidache, Bernstein, Klemperer, Walter, De Sabata, Scherchen, Furthwängler.... comeon.
This idea of "The greatest" is so puerile - so schoolboy. "Kleiber is better than Celibidache", "No he's not", "Yes he is". Art is not about The Greatest - that's the Olympic games. Some performers are unsurpassed. They are wonderful, marvelous, special. But "the greatest"? ABSURD
I treasure this video, captured long before Kleiber had achieved his “legendary” status. Simon Rattle tells the story of how he and Haitink were sitting in a Covent Garden box at a closed Kleiber rehearsal of Otello. When it ended, Haitink turned to Rattle and said: “Well, I don’t know about you, but I think that my studies in this art have only just begun.”
One does sincerely hope they're not going to work through the whole opera this way. Must be only the overture. Otherwise, they'll need the same number of rehearsals Boehm had at the Met for "Wozzeck" in 1959. Which I think was 32 or something....
Dobbiamo sempre distinguerci con fesserie come questa,fra giapponesi,inglesi,tedeschi e francesi che fanno commenti sensati ed appropriati.Sta parlando del direttore d'orchestra più grande di tutti i tempi.Le sue esecuzioni di Brahms,Beethoven,la prima e la quarta di Brahms,la settima di Beethoven sono vertici insuperabili.Ma,dal suo commento,temo che non le abbia mai ascoltate.Senza offesa,ma è veramente insopporabile un simile commento su Carlos Kleiber.
@@hiobaname, insuperabili per lei. Affermare che Kleiber sia " il più grande" significa solo che non ha ascoltato gli altri dal vivo.Io dal vivo ho ascoltato tanti e tante volte, Bernstein, Solti, Bohm, Pretre, Karajan...e ho ascoltato Kleiber almeno in una decina di concerti...non e'il solo. Forse lei non ha ascoltato dal vivo "quegli altri....
@@fabriziogarzi9892 Di fronte a una simile esperienza,mi arrendo e mi ritiro umilmente.Resto comunque della mia opinione,anche se non poggia certo sulla sua invidiabile esperienza,che pochissime persone credo possano vantare.Buona serata e buona musica.
@@hiobaname , io ho molti anni più di te e per forza sono riuscito ad ascoltare questi direttori. Comunque Kleiber era un ottimo direttore ma non mi faceva impazzire. Mi piace tanto Bernstein e Pretre. Buon ascolti anche a te.
Bisogna sempre fare classifiche? La musica come il calcio. Pelé più grande di Maradona, Bernstein più grande di Kleiber... per favore ! stiamo parlando di grandissimi direttori, fare classifiche è riduttivo . Comunque quella concertazione dell'Ouverture del Freuschutz è assolutamente magistrale .
Merci beaucoup pour le partage de ce document! C'est toujours un énorme plaisir que de voir le grand Carlos Kleiber et son art incomparable de la direction d'orchestre. Magnifique!