Carlos Kleiber Conducting Wagner's - Liebestod "Tristan Und Isolde" HD Audio

Richard Wagner. Tristan e Isolda. Liebestod from Act III
- Catarina Ligendza
- Carlos Kleiber
- Bayreuther Festspiele, 1976.
This is the original video sync to the better quality and restore audio from the live recording from 1976
Original Video: • 6
Complete Original recording: • Carlos Kleiber conduct...
The Shadow of a legend

[@ER1CwC]

Might anyone happen to know the backstory behind why Margaret Price rather than Ligendza ended up singing Isolde with Kleiber in the studio recording? It is a bit odd, considering that Kleiber did virtually all of his live Tristans with Ligendza. Was it simply because Price was a major recording artist and Ligendza was not? Was it primarily Deutsche Grammophon’s decision, or Kleiber’s?

[@jasonhurd4379]

Ligendza actually had a contract with Deutsche Grammophon at the time (which makes it even more inexplicable), under which she sang the Third Norn in the Karajan Ring, as well as Eva in the Jochum Meistersinger (as an eleventh-hour replacement for Edith Mathis). The only reason I can come up with for Ligendza's absence from Kleiber's DG Tristan is that her voice never seemed to expand to its fullest splendor and magnificence under studio conditions. Like Gwyneth Jones, Claire Watson and Leonie Rysanek, Ligendza was never at her best in the recording studio, where the microphones seemed to have an inhibiting effect, rendering her efforts therein somewhat generic and anonymous. For that reason, I've an idea the decision to replace Ligendza for the recording came from the record company rather than the conductor. Kleiber's close association with the Bavarian State Opera, where Margaret Price was a valued member of the roster, may have dictated (at least in part) his choice of Ligendza's replacement.

[@ER1CwC]

@@jasonhurd4379 Thanks for this really plausible explanation. The fact that she had a DG contract makes the whole situation borderline unjust! I get she wasn’t Nilsson or Flagstad, but still she must have been one of the leading Isolde’s at the time... to give the recording to someone who couldn’t have remotely begun to sing it on stage! Price does sound lovely in the recording, but it is ultimately a fantasy. Do you know if she sang Isolde with Kleiber after the recording? I would think that that would’ve been awkward.
Also it occurs to me that Ligendza concurrently participated in the Bohm/Rysanek Elektra recording. Go figure....

[@jasonhurd4379]

@@ER1CwC I've no idea whether Ligendza sang Isolde with Kleiber again after the recording, but if I had to guess, I would say probably not. Funny that you mention the Friedrich Elektra film, as that soundtrack is perhaps Ligendza's least successful studio recording, making her sound like a third-rate jugendlicher at a provincial German house. There, however, her participation was almost certainly insisted upon by Götz Friedrich, who had worked with her countless times in Berlin and maintained a satisfying artistic relationship with her. When she announced her imminent retirement a scant five years later, Friedrich begged her to reconsider, but her mind was made up.

[@ER1CwC]

@@jasonhurd4379 Really interesting. And for obvious reasons, the house-Chrysothemis was not available. I agree with your assessment of Ligendza’s performance there, although as you note in the previous comment, it might be a product of the mic placement. I’ve always felt that all three of the women in that recording are mic’ed too closely: the mic placement probably helped Fischer-Dieskau though! (Also Bohm’s conducting there drags a bit. But given that he usually conducted fast, I attribute that to his advanced age.) Thanks for your insights!

[@jasonhurd4379]

@@ER1CwC One thing to remember about that Elektra soundtrack: Böhm died before it was completed, leaving roughly between one-third and one-half of the score to be conducted by his assistant. It's true he was old (he died two weeks shy of his eighty-seventh birthday), but I have a hard time believing the finished product would have sounded quite so sluggish and enervated had he been able to finish the job. As you point out, he did tend to 'conduct fast'.

[@Tubomiro]

I would even contend, as much as I love Furtwängler and Bernstein, Carlos Kleiber was and is the greatest of conductors.

[@crml2012]

It is like Wagner wrote Tristan .....
For Carlos Kleiber
To conduct and for us to enjoy!

[@adamokolicsanyi4774]

For the eyes of the most die-hard fans of Carlos Kleiber only. What a treat!

[@jinwoobae7555]

World’s best Conducting

[@lionelthiebaud7081]

Le plus grand chef d'orchestre de tous les temps, merci Carlos Kleiber d'avoir vécu

[@roberttendl8592]

I love this great man.....

[@CraigFarangBa]

Wow. Ligendza is spectacular, and Kleiber of course is in total command.

[@MrTann2010]

Unbelievable.. just unbelievable! The free flowing nature and clarity of his gestures and his left hand.. Geez..

[@jamestolksdorf]

This is what I sometimes miss alot in these days when singing opera myself. Those movements are breathing and you know exactly what kind of emotions and flow the conductor feels. I sang Kurvenal, Klingsor and Dutchman myself and know how much you depend in Wagner's symphonic compositions on this kind of conducting. Kleibers art of conducting is fusing heaven and earth together into devine.

[@MrTann2010]

@@jamestolksdorf nice! Which conductors and orchestras have you done these operas with?

[@jamestolksdorf]

@@MrTann2010 I did this with on the Landestheater Detmold and Theater Hof. Klingsor (Parsifal) in 2012, Kurvenal (Tristan) I think it was 2014 and Dutchman in 2017. There were several conductors. You may go to my website james-tolksdorf.com if you need proof of me having sung those roles. This is the Trailer of Der Fliegende Holländer. th-cam.com/video/zHRdLgphlUQ/w-d-xo.html

[@jamestolksdorf]

@@MrTann2010 Are you a singer, musician or conductor yourself?

[@MrTann2010]

@@jamestolksdorf that's awesome! I will certainly check out your page! I am a pianist, but I also sing and I am currently studying to get my music degree at Luther College. My dream is to become a conductor, and Carlos Kleiber is my all time favorite! My next project over this summer is to study Wagner's ring cycle!

[@poetChinweJohn]

Mesmerizing! What Gorgeous conducting and singing!

[@conchiricoribera3927]

Impresionante Carlos Kleiber, no hay otro como el!!!

[@MorganHayes_Composer.Pianist]

CK's conducting is so expressive.

[@alessiofagioli9235]

carlos kleiber e wagner. musica celeste. grazie

[@DrahomiraBiligova]

Klebier GÉNIUS !! 🌹

[@Fritz_Maisenbacher]

3:32 from here .... Wagner and Kleiber hand in hand ...; for these unspeakable moments .... what ...; oh Fritz, just shut up, this is over, far over you ....

[@Fritz_Maisenbacher]

Tonnes of beauty, tonnes ....

[@gerhardmoser4030]

Das ist für die Ewigkeit. 😻

[@Fritz_Maisenbacher]

Ist schon im Marmor

[@Fritz_Maisenbacher]

4:28 how is it possible to write such a music down .. ?

[@williamsibree4286]

Because he saw her voice as perfect for the role, which it was. No one had tried ths before with a high Welsh soprano, but a powerfu soprano. People like the Liebestod but Act I is so exciting: she is so young and antagonistic. Isolde is not an old frump!

[@henryrol9841]

Impressionante...

[@humbertolelis1805]

Unbelievable…

[@cescorosa61]

Impressionante

[@doGreatartistsgrowontrees]

Quite possibly, the finest conducting I have heard of the Liebestod. And I thought Karajan had done the finest with Mödl (if I am not mistaken).

[@ilirllukaci5345]

Thanks.

[@ildefonsocortes1901]

Freitas, que gosta desta melodia. Aqui ,com a regencia de Carlos Kleiber, o soprano canta a morte de Isolda do terceiro ato de Tristão e Isolda

[@Felix73able]

utter magic. a fairy tale

[@hiromimaruyama8810]

One person did not like this!? Does the person knows how to click or did not like Isolde?

[@Yves_Ka]

Probably because the video is so fuzzy 😎🤣

[@lublondon]

Einfach grandios

[@isammolina4842]

Los expertos dicen que fue el ultimo gran Tristan...(la orquesta "hervia")que logro' un cromatismo musical palpable no escuchado desde 1939' en Bayreuth.👏👏👏👀🌹🍃🎼🎶🎵🌹🍃🎼🎶🎵🌹🍃🎼🎶🎵

[@jordipanadesribera6890]

👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

[@user-wf3hx2mx8n]

これ、全曲ブルーレイかDVDで販売してくれないだろうか。いくらでも出す。

[@Fritz_Maisenbacher]

4:32 das Gras vor dem Hügel in Bayreuth ......

[@kome1976]

Carlos' water world 1976

[@papagen00]

For Kleiber's sake I would put up with any soprano even Ligendza.

[@henrykszeryng5900]

free like a bird

[@HermanIngram]

He was using the score, though.

[@henrykszeryng5900]

@@HermanIngram he’s conducting a fucking wagner opera what did u think lol

[@Yves_Ka]

@@HermanIngram How do you know? He didnt look once at any score, not to mention turn a single page. Watch him conduct Rosenkavalier completely without a score!

[@HermanIngram]

@@henrykszeryng5900
Gilels didn’t need a score when he played Beethoven 106.

[@henrykszeryng5900]

@@HermanIngram who cares, if it is great music making?

[@martinbusch2823]

Besser kann man das nicht dirigieren!

[@uriuri_8]

4:15

[@botbeo1091]

Help me. What's the name of this music?
th-cam.com/video/miSJ_wZTE3g/w-d-xo.html

[@Fritz_Maisenbacher]

Bieber, Justin.

[@lublondon]

@@Fritz_Maisenbacher🤣🤣

[@Fritz_Maisenbacher]

3:32 . 3:32. 3:32. 3:32.