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I know that the Beethoven 5th and 7th by Carlos Kleiber are considered by a great many people to be "reference" recordings. Maybe it's because I don't care for faster / really fast Beethoven readings, but the Jr. Kleiber performances have never done anything for me... I stumbled across a channel on YouTube that makes available MANY top flight recordings by various conductors and artists (more vintage). It's easy to search their channel by artist when I came across Kleiber Sr.'s Beethoven 5th recording with the Royal Concertgebouw and what a revelatory recording it is IMO! At what I would consider to be a more moderate pace, it's nuanced and nicely done. Stereo did not appear on the recording scene until about 5 years later... How glorious THAT might have been! Of course the senior Kleiber passed away in 1956 just a few years after this recording was made...
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Topic - A tale of two Kleibers......... - TWB 19:57:08 06/7/20 (12)
- RE: A tale of two Kleibers......... - Todd Krieger 09:52:37 06/8/20 (10)
- Slower tempos is part of the reason that I like Celibidache so much.... - TWB 12:01:17 06/8/20 (9)
- The longest 5th I have heard... - kuma 13:51:30 06/8/20 (8)
- I've never been a fan of Previn's.... - TWB 14:19:49 06/8/20 (7)
- RE: He's had a lot of nice things to say about you (nt) - B. Scarpia 17:50:07 06/8/20 (1)
- LOL... yeah I doubt seriously he cared what I thought one way or the other(nt) - TWB 18:30:30 06/8/20 (0)
- RE: I've never been a fan of Previn's.... - pbarach 15:39:07 06/8/20 (4)
- RE: I've never been a fan of Previn's.... - blakey 07:15:54 06/9/20 (0)
- +1 Rach Symphony 2 - jimbill 16:33:36 06/8/20 (1)
- Zinman and Baltimore has always been my reference for that (nt) - TWB 18:31:51 06/8/20 (0)
- Yeah - he definitely had his moments - very much agree about the RVW symphonies [nt] - Chris from Lafayette 16:03:33 06/8/20 (0)
- father and Son. I love both performances... - kuma 00:34:22 06/8/20 (0)