Because was managed by the same agency, I ever so often heard things about him through the company. And I'd have said exactly the same while Karajan was alive.'
Time and again in researching this profile, contacts have given warnings not to put the Otello at risk that to publish this or that fact could endanger patiently and laboriously constructed working relationships with Kleiber and provisional agreements with him over future work. The young Carlos quickly showed musical ability. when you spend enough time on something, you will achieve what you want. Additional taxes may apply. Come to think of it, I met him twice in 2019. But not in London, unfortunately.
Pieces of music which are often encrusted with performance cliches and sloppy interpretation were served up fresh, sharp and ravishing.
He has studied the meaning of the music like no one else. But from a certain time, I stopped feeling this discomfort. That same week, Lupu also had a concert in Paris with Claudio Abbado. Herbert von Karajan once said: “Carlos has a genius for conducting but he doesn’t enjoy doing it.
'I admire his total involvement in a score,' Domingo explains. The surge of public interest was enormous. However, my lack of conducting abilities and experiences sometimes did not allow me to extract some specific shapes I was hoping to express.
But as a pianist, I am not sure I will spend too much time learning how to conduct. 'He studies a great deal,' says a friend. Whenever I am Lausanne, he's so nice to me. It was a dramatic moment for me. SC: The conductor is the only musician on stage who doesn't make a sound. A series of events lead to my eventual moving to Berlin. Apprentice years followed, as an assistant opera conductor in Dusseldorf, during which he performed a much wider repertoire than is nowadays associated with him, before his appointment from 1966-68 as Kapellmeister at the Stuttgart Opera. At the end of this week, Kleiber is due to conduct the first of four performances of Verdi's Otello at Covent Garden, with Placido Domingo as the Moor. For a German city, the food is good.
This was after midnight, but we still proceeded to have sushi and sashimi with beer. How, and why, did he suddenly become world famous when Deutsche Grammophon released his first ever recording in 1973 of Weber’s To celebrate what would have been Carlos Kleiber’s 90th birthday (3 July 2020) Deutsche Grammophon have remastered and reissued his landmark recording of Carl Maria von Weber’s opera “Weber’s famous attention to details of orchestration is lovingly explored by a conductor who has taken the trouble to go back to the score in manuscript and observe the differences between that and most of the published versions […] this would be of little point were the performance itself not of such interest […] The singing cast is excellent, with Gundula Janowitz an outstanding Agathe to a somewhat reflective Max from Peter Schreier, […] Edith Mathis is a pretty Aennchen, Theo Adam a fine, murky Caspar.” – Amy Winehouse Quotes: Ten Poignant Insights Into Her Life‘Space Oddity’: The Story Behind David Bowie’s Influential Song
The Guardian's Edward Greenfield felt that 'at no point with such aggressive exaggerations and idiosyncracies was it quite possible to dismiss the suspicion that here was a conductor determined at all costs to do things differently, to attract to himself rather than to the music.' Check out Interview with Carlos Kleiber by Carlos Kleiber on Amazon Music. To hear him explain these things is incredible. He is loathe to commit himself far in advance and, although he imposes strict conditions for his appearances, he rarely signs contracts.
But just watch the total independence of Carlos's hands. His Beethoven recordings are incredible. ... An Interview with Elaine Douvas, Principal Oboist. 'What a pity he is musical,' Erich Kleiber wrote in a letter from Lima.
But this evening moved me a lot.
'His stick technique is very clear, but he uses his body terribly well too,' says Saunders.
For example, he advised me that I should look for good human-qualities when choosing one's management.SC: In some ways, I am closer to Lupu than I am with Zimerman.
Carlos Kleiber was born in Germany from an Austrian father and American mother, and held German nationality even when living in Argentina in his youth.
If Zimerman is the person who initially instilled upon me a dream of becoming a pianist, Lupu continues to show me the highest point of music-making.
He was 74. Twelve months ago this morning Carlos Kleiber 's name suddenly became known to millions, as he marched briskly on to the platform of the Grosser Saal of the Musikverein in Vienna to conduct the traditional New Year's Day concert of waltzes and polkas which is nowadays televised to all corners of the globe. When we were up there, I was impressed with how well Zimerman knew the city. He has a deep-freeze.
His violinist wife is also a lovely person.
YH: Talking of conducting, you've stated in a recent interview that you admire the works of conductor Carlos Kleiber. He once told the English National Opera's general manager Peter Jonas that he would like to conduct The Mikado, and when Jomas was in charge of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra he even persuaded Kleiber to perform George Butterworth's first English Idyll.
I've seen the scores.'
So whenever I made a mistake, they didn't make a big issue out of it. FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) -- Carlos Kleiber, the celebrated perfectionist conductor whose mystique grew partly out of the rarity of his performances, has died. He's more experienced than me in these things, so I have much to learn. 'He is just like a magician,' Domingo continues.
He never repeats.
'He always has a trump card up his sleeve.
In London last week a tall grey haired man walked in unannounced off the street in jeans and anorak carrying an old plastic bag to see a friend. In between came La Traviata, which he almost abandoned midway, and Die Fledermaus, as well as an acclaimed handful of Beethoven, Brahms, and Schubert symphonies with the Vienna Phlharmonic.
We talked about all sorts of things, including a conversation about Michelangelo.After we finished, he left for home to practice the piano.SC: Yes, it was around 2am. 'Without any doubt,' came the great tenor's instant reply. SC: I think Carlos Kleiber is one of the greatest conductors in history. I was especially moved by the fact that one of my childhood heroes had written to me. Of course Kleiber is a complex figure. It was a wonderful house with Marks and Spencers just around the corner (SC grins).
Carlos Kleiber’s love and hate relationship with conducting is another ironic twist.
I could show him that my phone's background image is a photograph of him. Yet it masks the extent of his scholarship and sympathies.