Carlos Kleiber First Recordings

Georg Philipp Telemann

Suite in B-flat major (Tafelmusik)

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

Cello Concerto in B-flat major, Wq. 171

Interview Carlos Kleiber

Carlos Kleiber

Hamburger Rundfunkorchester

Recorded: Hamburg, 12/1960

Not for the repertoires, but for its documentary value. :)

Kubelik conducts Verdi Don Carlos (Hamburg, 03/21/1978)

Giuseppe Verdi

Don Carlos

Don Carlo(s) - Vasile Moldoveanu
Filippo II - Simon Estes
Rodrigo - Bernd Weikl
Il Grande Inquisitore - Kurt Moll
Elisabetta di Valois - Sylvia Sass
La principessa Eboli - Grace Bumbry

Rafael Kubelik

Hamburg State Opera Orchestra & Choir

Recorded: Hamburg, 03/21/1978

Carlos Kleiber conducts R. Strauss Der Rosenkavalier (Tokyo, 10/07/1994)

Richard Strauss

Der Rosenkavalier

Marschallin - Felicity Lott
Baron Ochs - Kurt Moll
Octavian - Anne Sopie von Otter
Faninal - Gottfried Hornik
Sopie - Barbar Bonney

Carlos Kleiber

Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra & Vieanna State Opera Chorus

Recorded: Tokyo Bunka Kaikan, 10/07/1994



Carlos Kleiber conducts Verdi Falstaff

Giuseppe Verdi

Falstaff

Sir.John Falstaff - Norman Mittelmann
Ford - William Justus
Fenton - Ernst-August Steinhoff
Dr. Cajus - Paul Späni
Bardolfo - Richard van Vrooman
Mrs. Ford (Alice) - Gerry de Groot
Nannetta - Lucille Kailer
Mrs. Quickly - Erika Wien
Mrs. Page (Meg) - Ellen Kunz
Pistola - Heiz Borst

Carlos Kleiber

Zurich Opera Orchestra & Chorus

Recorded: Zurich, 03/04/1965

The sound quality of these recordings are poor, but the documentary value is priceless.

Steinberg conducts Beethoven Symphony No. 9 "Choral"



Ludwig van Beethoven

Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125 "Choral"

Ella Lee - Soprano

Joanna Simon - Alto

Richard Kness - Tenor

Thomas Paul - Bass

William Steinberg

Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra

Mendelssohn Choir of Pittsburgh

Carlos Kleiber conducts Verdi Otello (Covent Garden, 01/13/1987)

Giuseppe Verdi

Otello

Otello - Plácido Domingo

Desdemona - Katia Ricciarelli

Iago - Justino Díaz

Cassio - Kim Begley

Rodrigo - Christopher Gillet

Lodovico - Gwynne Howell

Montano - Geoffrey Moses

Emilia - Anne Mason

Un Araldo - Paschal Allen

Carlos Kleiber

Royal Opera Orchestra & Chorus

Recorded Coven Garden, January 13, 1987

 

Kondrashin conducts Mahler Symphony No. 6 (Baden-Baden, 1981)

Gustav Mahler

Symphony No. 6 in A minor

Kirill Kondrashin

SWR Symphony Orchestra

Recorded Baden-Baden, January 13-15, 1981