Mesmerised by Carlos Kleiber #1/6 | Introduction

MESMERISED BY CARLOS
PERSONAL MEMOIRS OF THE EXCEPTIONAL IMPACT THAT CARLOS KLEIBER MADE ON MUSICIANS AND AUDIENCES
A VIDEO PODCAST SERIES BY JON TOLANSKY

Podcast 1: Introduction – Who was Carlos Kleiber? How and why did he suddenly leap to world fame when Deutsche Grammophon issued his first ever recording, in 1973, conducting Weber’s Der Freischütz? Why was he legendary in his own lifetime as an electrifying and vividly charismatic conductor and yet, to most people, a remote and inaccessible person who refused to give interviews and only appeared increasingly infrequently, but when he did so unfailingly mesmerised both musicians and audiences – people who knew him and people who never met him?

Mesmerised by Carlos Kleiber #1/6 | Introduction
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[leokim]

Carlos Kleiber turns music into life. Under his baton vibrations that travel through air become something alive that your transcendental being can actually perceive.

[charlesbarber]

The musical genius of Carlos was, perhaps, unparalleled in our time. But tell him about it and he would mock you. For all the glory of his career, his agony was this: the performances he gave in public never equalled the ones he had already given internally, in his fabulous ear and mind and conception. To himself, he was never good enough. Jon Tolansky very ably captures this paradox.

[zelimircabraja]

With this time distance, we can all agree: maestro Carlos was and will stay the best conductor ever lived! Greater than life. Never reproducting always creating. Listening to todays "best" conductors, they sound, look and conduct in a style: take the money and run.

[Bemew-ylvw]

Jon Tolansky is a brilliant commentator/presenter who has encyclopedic knowledge of the repertoire, and also intimate knowledge and contact with most great performers. His insights and interviews are an invaluable service to classical music students, teachers, and performers.

[adamokolicsanyi]

This is about the most wonderful, most exciting thing I have ever found on youtube. Thank you, thank you ever so much.

[crisantosanmartin]

Para mi Carlos Kleiber ha sido el mejor director de orquesta desde que existen grabaciones y verlo dirigir es sentir la transmisión de su arte musical al espectador. Es una pena que 500.000.000 de personas que hablan español no puedan acceder a todas sus grabaciones subtituladas o dobladas en español.

[jepcorp]

Karajan regarded him as the best conductor who ever lived. Beyond anyone who Karajan admired.

[acalzado]

Carlos Kleiber was one of the best conductors. Thanks to Jon Tolansky for making these excellent podcasts. This is a real treat.

[crisantosanmartin]

Estoy muy agradecido de poder acceder a los archivos de Carlos Kleiber, para mi el mejor director que he visto y mi agradecimiento sería mayor si los comentarios y su obra fuentes traducidos o subtitulados en español, somos 500.000.000 millones de personas y potenciales clientes.

[lucasgust]

What's the title of the piece of the beggining?

[antwerpsmerle]

Charles Barber talks of CK joking about the reverence accorded to maestros. I wonder if they ever heard this joke?

A guy walks into a pet store wanting a parrot. The store clerk shows him two beautiful ones out on the floor.
“This one is $5, 000 and the other is $10, 000.” the clerk said.
“Wow! What does the $5, 000 one do?”
“This parrot can sing every aria Mozart ever wrote.”
“And the other?” said the customer.
“This one can sing Wagner’s entire Ring cycle. Theres another one in the back room for $30, 000.”
“Holy moly! What does that one do?”
“Nothing that I can tell, but the other two parrots call him Maestro.”

[ionutzamfir]

CELIBIDACHE PARA SIEMPRE! IL MEJOR DEL MUNDO . FOREVER N EVER!

[TomboVersta]

En mi personal recuerdo quedan dos directos con Carlos Kleiber y la Bayerisches Rundfunk. Fueron unos auténticos desencuentros, decepciones absolutas. Así como hay directores cuyo directo se eleva hasta los cielos, más allá de las limitaciones de las grabaciones -y que supusieron verdaderas sorpresas- hay otros que descendieron a niveles más terrenales. Fue el caso de Carlos Kleiber. Más allá de la plasticidad visual del movimiento de sus brazos...planos sonoros limitados, sonido algo duro, dinámicas no destacables, y muchas cosas más cosas que el disco logró ocultar en mi muy personal percepción. Una de mis grandes decepciones. Solamente quizás el Allegretto de la Séptima de Beethoven logró alcanzar sensaciones de gran altura...