Carlos Kleiber turns music into life. Under his baton vibrations that travel through air become something alive that your transcendental being can actually perceive.
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.
@@samdajellybeenie14 It was the privilege of my life. In the book, I try to make the case that he was an Ecstatic, in the sense of Blake and Dickinson and mystics long passed. But he was also preposterously funny, and appreciated that in others. Luckily, my own zany sense of 'humour' provoked his, and so it went for 15 years. You would have liked him. When I become a corpse, the original letters are all going to Stanford. Check them out sometime. When you see how he *actually* wrote, with interjections and asides and marginalia and little sketches -- and jokes crossed out for better jokes -- you'll see what I mean.
@@charlesbarber8166 Thanks for sharing your knowledge, Charles. Quicksilver genius. Your contact with him is one of the most interesting correspondences in classical music. Tolansky is a brilliant presenter and has done so much for classical performer interviews.
@@Bemew-yl4vw Thank you for saying so. One of the reasons I wrote the book was in order to contest the rubbish written about him. Some would have you believe that CK was a Howard Hughes, hiding above a casino and guarded by Mormons, saving his fingernail clippings and talking to no one. That was all nonsense. His letters are the proof of it. You would have liked him. Anyone who actually knew Carlos misses him terribly.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.”
@@charlesbarber8166 Thanks for sharing your wonderful experiences and insights, Charles (as well as too, your book!) while tapping this out from Sydney, Australia on what would have been 'Mice-tro' K's 91st birthday! As I always like to say, the world is divided into two insofar as the resonances that the initials 'CK' have, while regrettably 99% of the world's population immediately think of perfume and/or designer clothes! I daresay that you'll be thinking of Carlos and his fantastic legacy on this day too, while in your case, hopefully you get the equivalent of a 'Kleiber-gram' in reply after dusting off the Ouija board! With very best wishes and thanks again, while may we all be in gratitude today for what Carlos left us with re: his recordings and videos - and this rather than what we don't have! P.S. The 'mice-tro' reference has an especial meaning for many rural Australian's at the moment given that the country is in the grip of a mice plague, while I now somehow need to revise Mr Smerle's amusing parrot joke into one that replaces them with, as the collective noun would have it, 'a nest of mice'!...or should that be 'mice-tri'?
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...
Micestro!! Love it Charles.
Carlos Kleiber turns music into life. Under his baton vibrations that travel through air become something alive that your transcendental being can actually perceive.
THE BEST!!!
The absolute greatest ever.
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.
How lucky you were to know him personally Charles. I would give anything to have that kind of relationship with him.
@@samdajellybeenie14 It was the privilege of my life. In the book, I try to make the case that he was an Ecstatic, in the sense of Blake and Dickinson and mystics long passed. But he was also preposterously funny, and appreciated that in others. Luckily, my own zany sense of 'humour' provoked his, and so it went for 15 years. You would have liked him. When I become a corpse, the original letters are all going to Stanford. Check them out sometime. When you see how he *actually* wrote, with interjections and asides and marginalia and little sketches -- and jokes crossed out for better jokes -- you'll see what I mean.
@@charlesbarber8166 Thanks for sharing your knowledge, Charles. Quicksilver genius. Your contact with him is one of the most interesting correspondences in classical music. Tolansky is a brilliant presenter and has done so much for classical performer interviews.
@@Bemew-yl4vw Thank you for saying so. One of the reasons I wrote the book was in order to contest the rubbish written about him. Some would have you believe that CK was a Howard Hughes, hiding above a casino and guarded by Mormons, saving his fingernail clippings and talking to no one. That was all nonsense. His letters are the proof of it. You would have liked him. Anyone who actually knew Carlos misses him terribly.
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.
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.
This is about the most wonderful, most exciting thing I have ever found on youtube. Thank you, thank you ever so much.
Carlos Kleiber was the best
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.
Carlos Kleiber was one of the best conductors. Thanks to Jon Tolansky for making these excellent podcasts. This is a real treat.
GENIUS
Karajan regarded him as the best conductor who ever lived. Beyond anyone who Karajan admired.
He kinda looks like Rutgers hauer?
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.
What's the title of the piece of the beggining?
Mein Kapellmeister 😥😢
Hagiography!!
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.”
I don't know if CK knew the joke, but he would have liked it. Thanks!
@@charlesbarber8166 Thanks for sharing your wonderful experiences and insights, Charles (as well as too, your book!) while tapping this out from Sydney, Australia on what would have been 'Mice-tro' K's 91st birthday! As I always like to say, the world is divided into two insofar as the resonances that the initials 'CK' have, while regrettably 99% of the world's population immediately think of perfume and/or designer clothes! I daresay that you'll be thinking of Carlos and his fantastic legacy on this day too, while in your case, hopefully you get the equivalent of a 'Kleiber-gram' in reply after dusting off the Ouija board! With very best wishes and thanks again, while may we all be in gratitude today for what Carlos left us with re: his recordings and videos - and this rather than what we don't have! P.S. The 'mice-tro' reference has an especial meaning for many rural Australian's at the moment given that the country is in the grip of a mice plague, while I now somehow need to revise Mr Smerle's amusing parrot joke into one that replaces them with, as the collective noun would have it, 'a nest of mice'!...or should that be 'mice-tri'?
This certainly is a very welcome change from viola jokes! Thanks for sharing Antwerp, while happy 91'st birthday today (July 3), Carlos Kleiber!!!
CELIBIDACHE PARA SIEMPRE! IL MEJOR DEL MUNDO . FOREVER N EVER!
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...
Estoy triste por ud!
@@santiagodeloscaballeros3743 No lo esté. Le agradezco su preocupación.