In Memoriam Carlos Kleiber

[Guest]

B. 3 July 1930, d. 13 July 2004
Will we ever hear his like again?

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[french frank]

Thanks tom_960.

I know he did conduct the NYD concert a few times, but I never really imagined him in that role. Still, he was an Austrian by ancestry so I suppose it shouldn't surprise that he was so at home in the Musikverein (I could almost see the seat where I once sat up on the left in the organ gallery - couldn't see a thing!).

[Petrushka]

Thanks tom_960.

I know he did conduct the NYD concert a few times, but I never really imagined him in that role. Still, he was an Austrian by ancestry so I suppose it shouldn't surprise that he was so at home in the Musikverein (I could almost see the seat where I once sat up on the left in the organ gallery - couldn't see a thing!).

Kleiber conducted the NYD Concert twice, in 1989 and again in 1992. Together with Karajan in 1987 and the Boskovsky years they were the best NYD Concerts ever.

My own Musikverein seat (VPO/Bychkov/Mahler 3, May 2008) was towards the back of the hall at the side. Fabulous acoustic but view could have been a little better.