If you are a connoisseur of Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony, conductor Carlos Kleiber and the great Bavarian State Orchestra; and if, like me, you missed the first issue of this 1983 live performance, ...

I’m a sucker for a cult figure in music, and in classical music there’s barely a more cultish proposition than Carlos Kleiber. He was one of the greatest musicians of the 20th century, but you can’t ...

It's arguably the most famous opening in all of classical music. But what's the best recording of Beethoven's Symphony No. 5? Listen to our playlist, read our recommendations, and click on the links ...

Beethoven's Fifth Symphony — with its famous, jolting first four-notes — broke expressive ground and overturned many of the formal concepts on which the classical symphony had been based. The scoring ...

Andrew Farach-Colton and David Gutman lock horns over the pros and cons of Kleiber’s recording of Beethoven’s Seventh with the Vienna Philharmonic for DG ...

Erich Kleiber's interpretation of Beethoven's Missa Solemnis was the stuff of legend in the 1940s and 50s. He never made a commercial recording of the work, however, so the release of this live ...

Any disc from Carlos Kleiber is to be treasured, and this is his only recording of the Pastoral Symphony. That ought to make it self-recommending, particularly as the performance has a wonderful ...

Carlos Kleiber, who died on July 13 aged 74, was one of the greatest conductors of the past half-century, yet he never held a major permanent appointment. He deliberately restricted his repertory to ...

Kleiber takes Beethoven's metronome markings literally, which results in a fast performance that is swift, though unhurried. But if you listen within these tempi, you will hear that Kleiber exercises ...