Carlos Kleiber Archive

Conductor Carlos Kleiber was born on July 3, 1930, in Berlin, where his Viennese father conducted the Berlin State Opera. The elder Kleiber, opposed to the Nazi regime and its restrictions on performances of modern …

Conductor Carlos Kleiber belongs to a small group of orchestral leaders whom I have admired over the years. I found Kleiber to be a terrific interpreter of the music of Brahms and Mozart. What also …

Carlos Kleiber. The late conductor, Carlos Kleiber, is one of the orchestral leaders that I most admire. When he came before any orchestra, and he knew the music cold! He needed no score… As you …

  Two Brahms Masterpieces: Double concerto, and Symphony #2. The symphony #2 by Johannes Brahms is one of my great favorites, because I hear in it the composer painting the Austrian countryside. The composer spent …

  Gustav Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde. I have always been nuts about the amazing capabilities of the late conductor, Carlos Kleiber. As the son of the famous Austrian conductor Erich Kleiber, the father …