Carlos Kleiber conducts 'Radetsky March' by Strauss

[Vic2Guem4]

I prefer this version to Karajan's version : it is less solemn but it is more animated, it is like a dance.

[WHITECK9]

:22 to :26 pushing and shaping the horns; now that's a perfect example of what a conductor does

[nss21heath]

What grace!

[pohsiBRD]

@SatchmoSings: I think you fail to understand what I was saying. Of course the condctor is the one who makes the artistic decisions. However, Klieber does not overconduct!  His style does not get in the way of the message being communicated. Much like James Levine... understated. The major work is done in rehearsals.

[SatchmoSings]

Another superb example of why Carlos Kleiber was such a great conductor; I've wathce about a half dozen versions of this on youtube and this one is the best.

[albertschmidlin]

Impresionante Carlos Kleiber, "vive" la música, y una sonrisa de conexión, el mejor segun la BBC Music Magazine, me encantaba Radetzke con Herbert von Karajan, pero este Director vibra con la música, gracias por el video

[pohsiBRD]

Here is a conductor guides the orchestra, allowing them to express the music through their own voice. He clearly enjoys the music and sets the orchestra at ease to do their best. One of my absolute favourite conductors, Herr Carlos Kleiber!!!

[SatchmoSings]

@pohsiBRD If Kleiber, or any conductor allowed the musicians to express the music through their own and inner voices you'd have nothing but a collection mulish chaos.

Even the justly renowned Orpheus Chamber Orchestra would do better with a good and sympathetic conductor.

[Kleiber2004]

Great Conductor!!

I like varlos Kleiber.

My id is Kleiber2004 ! (^_-)☆

I'm japanease.

[yuyueyuyue]

masterpiece! very dramatic, strong like thunderbolt, soft like silk.

fast and clean.

Feels like he doesn't want to be bothered by the audience, lol

[yuyueyuyue]

masterpiece! very dramatic, strong like thunderbolt, soft like silk.

fast and clean.

Feels like he doesn't want the audience to bother him, lol

[Nunchackus]

why the people claping??



[Kleiber2004]

@Nunchackus

It is a custom of New Year's concert.

Last Music is always this music.

Radetsky March

[LordHettrick]

@Nunchackus Usually, also, the conductor turns and conducts the audience as well as the orchestra.

[SatchmoSings]

@Nunchackus It's the custom to do this, dork.

[Nunchackus]

@SatchmoSings why I'm asking stupid

[SatchmoSings]

@Nunchackus You could have shown a bit of resourcefulness and found the answer as I did when I "Googled" Radetsky March New Years Day Vienna Clapping.

You're obvoiusly so without personal resource as to have done this yourself; you are the kind of idiot that always demands the easy, spoon-fed answer; fuck you.

[AndyLamful]

well!

[valdengo1]

..the wiki biography of him is excellent......he was a marvellously gifted conductor that walked to his own drummer, shunned the invitation to lead the Berlin Philharmonic, and was a very private man ..and what spontaneous performances he gave..died far too young

[CYTL1960]

Carlos Kleiber's version is in a faster pace, delivers more power and makes Radetsky March sounds more like military music, which is the way it should be.

[austrorus]

it is interesting to watch and listen to, the different interpretations of different conductors of this march.

[vivienmerchant]

You hear things in this performance (eg. the wave of brass at .26; The double accs from the flutes at .32; the absolutely even winds at .42) that never get a look in from anyone else. The march is transformed. What a genius of intent and of detail.

[naturgesetz]

This recording brings out instrumental lines that get buried in other performances.

[64ftContraBombarde]

@berto41 Precisely! You've accurately summed up my existence. Impressive.

[64ftContraBombarde]

@berto41 I'm surprised nobody has realised that I was just sh*t-stirring...

[OrsolyaIvett]

ahogy 2:04nél kiint a közönségnek is, hogy na most lehet tapsolni :)

[amy1227]

i would like to have sex with each man who is playing on that stage!!! lololol

[mumulengo]

Chido

[alfredocx]

CARLOS INOLVIDABLE

[pizsigabi]

Carlos Kleiber egy nagyon jó ügyes karmester,de sajnos meghalt 2x vegényelt Újévi Koncertet Bécsben egyzer 1989-ben utána 1992-be szép munkát végzett minden elismerésem!

[pizsigabi]

Carlos Kleiber egy nagyon jó ügyes karmester,de sajnos meghalt 2x vegényelt Újévi Koncertet Bécsben egyzer 1989-ben utána 1992-be szép munkát végzett minden elismerésem!

[SapphireM]

I think Kleiber is quite simply wonderful

[fojaak]

Carlos Kleiber was and IS the very best ever seen! Such a pity I never saw him in real nor he gave more productions.

[LaIslaBonita26]

Grandissimo, "lovelissimo" conducting, he really just simplly "played" with it!

[SoSoNinja]

ahh yes a beautigul song esspecialy love listening to it wile reading mein kamphf a favorite of mine

[thewyj]

you stirrer!

[MrRichTBiscuit]

Congratulations, you must be so popular with such a razor sharp wit. Well done you.

[kvetynka]

Is he really the only one conductor who doesnt care for the audience while Radetzky March?

[fuckthepain]

Thanks Kvetynka,

It does seem that way at first, but if you look closely at 2:04 for example, I think you will see that he does turn slightly to the audience and with a glance and a gesture of one hand successfully bring them in.

It's not Karajan, perhaps, but it works.

[merkenstein]

@f...t..p...

Its no Karajan.

Thanks God, that there was also a Carlos...

[liric01994]

no, da solo gli attacchi , ma la telecamera li taglia via.

[emma8906]

Brilliant, thankyou

[schoschi09]

Carlos, you was the best.

I´ve lerned so much from you.

RIP

[crotchet66]

I agree he was (probably) the best and I have learned from him too... it's so frustrating he didn't conduct more often.

[saska83]

It doesn't mean he supported them... it's the same situation with communism, in many communist countries almost every citizen was forces to be a member of Communist party...

[saska83]

Karajan was not a nazi... niether Wilhelm Furtwängler. Just stop insulting people !!!

[malaisennui]

God damn fucking gere

kan, i wish that you all boiled in the asphalt of dersden

[anonymusum]

@ malaisenui

There isn´t a big difference between you and the nazis - "I wish that you all boiled in the asphalt of Dresden" - Hitler could have said that, Stalin and some others as well. You must be pretty stupid or bigoted.

[malaisennui]

my mother's family all but 3 died in concentration camps so suck my left nut,,, boo hoo hoo dresden, whatever dick suck

[anonymusum]

do you know how stupid this is? was it my fault? am I responsible for it? I feel sorry for people like you, only living in the past, posessed by hate, this way leads to nowhere or to a next war...

[crimsontoxic]

Well, it's a pity YOU nevertheless emerged. Obviously too many of your family survived. Hm. Maybe next time!

[jabsomdoc]

saska83, you're an idiot. it's well known that karajan was a nazi. hitler never liked karajan though. on the other hand furtwangler was NOT a nazi, but hilter loved his conducting.

[64ftContraBombarde]

He was a nazi, he joined on the 8th of April 1933. His membership no. was 1.607.525. These are facts, look it up.

[strauss12345]

@64ftContraBombarde Ummm Carlos Kleiber was born in 1930, so he joined the Nazi party when he was 3? Really? Oh and guess what, his father ditched the Berlin Opera in protest of the Nazi Party.

[cwcascales]

@strauss12345 his father was the famous conductor Erich Kleiber who left Nazi Germany in 1935 to live in Argentina. The father discouraged him from music but while studying in Switzerland he turned to his true love. What an amazing and talented individual. RIP.

[JMAADV]

@64ftContraBombarde se não sabes é melhor ficares calado. Em vez de dizeres asneiras.

[blichilde]

He was the best,with Giulini.Karajan was the most overrated conductor of all (and a nazi too...)

[wysiwyg248]

This version is way faster and more balanced.

Karajan rellied more on the drums and ended up with a Funeral March IMHO when compared to Kleiber's... oh, and Carlos does not even bother to start with the drum roll! LOL

Carlos, RIP

[Agomongo1235]

@wysiwyg248 ... Funeral march? Just because o fthe drums... That doesn't even make sense so if I were to focus more on drums on Beethovens Symphony no 6 3movement it would be a funeral march?

[wysiwyg248]

@Agomongo1235

Pls read AND listen before replying. I said that Karajan ended up with a funeral march, very slow and solemn.

If you don't believe me, listen to both and compare.

Beethoven's #6 has nothing to do with this. Do not mix apples with oranges, please.

Take care

[Agomongo1235]

@wysiwyg248 It sounds nothing like a funeral march it sounds like POWER. Kleiber sounds as if he got bored with the piece so he decided to rush it. Fast and balanced? What do you mean balanced? Are you saying that Karajan's version sounds as if he's going to break down any minute? I have listened to both I couldn't finish Carlo's, because his was just way too fast. Also, I made a mistake on the Beethoven one.

[japanesesweet]

interesting to compare this with Herbert V Karajan-this (kleiber) is lighter and more crisp -on the other hand,HvK gets a more rousing response from the audience for the clapping...a grander vision.