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Beethoven - Symphonies nrs. 5 & 6 'Pastoral' - Concertgebouw Orchestra, Erich Kleiber

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Erich Kleiber was born in Vienna in 1890 and died in Zürich in 1956, sadly denied the lenghthy Indian summer in the concert hall and recording studio enjoyed by Bruno Walter and Otto Klemperer, distinguished colleagues from Kleiber's Berlin days. Like Walter, Kleiber had been brought up in the richly productive environment of turn-of-the-century Vienna, a city dominated musically by the all-encompassing genius of Gustav Mahler. Though Kleiber was neither a pupil nor a disciple of Mahler, he often conducted Mahler's more avant-garde music (most interestingly the much maligned, notably 'classical' Seventh Symphony), and he grew up with a first-hand knowledge of Mahler's wonderfully clear-headed yet vital and supple way of conducting the music of Mozart, Beethoven, and their successors in the Viennese tradition. ...

Richard Osborne

Beethoven

Symphony nr. 5 in C minor, Op. 67
Symphony nr. 6 in F major, Op. 68 'Pastoral'

Concertgebouw Orchestra
Erich Kleiber

Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, 1952

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