Carlos Kleiber Beethoven: Symphonies Nos.5 1981

Recording of the Vienna Philharmonic of the Symphony No. 5 In 1981, at the Teatro Juárez de Guanajuato, within the framework of the International Cervantino Festival That’s why the recording quality is lousy. I think it is the only live recording of Carlos playing the fifth Carlos Kleiber (1930-2004) was a singular director, tremendously self-demanding, rigorous and almost certainly stigmatized by a complex personality. Kleiber was a managerial magician who seemed to live in direct communion with the very spirit of music. His way of directing and rehearsing never attended to reasons, techniques, or any logistics. He let himself be inspired by music and that was only enough for the musicians to follow his orders through the movement of his eyes rather than that of his hands. His ability to perform the orchestral accelerandi was prodigious and the transitions between the tempi were perfectly fine.