Carlos Kleiber Conducts: Beethoven, Mozart & Brahms (DVD)

When Carlos Kleiber passed away in 2004, many classical music lovers went into a sense of loss, mourning the demise of the last of the special maestros. Son of an equally very special conductor, comparably fastidious and difficult, strongly centred on the central european tradition but both with particular and equally strong views on how music from the central repertoire should be played, Carlos's passing brought also a sense of despair in view of his very infrequent visits to the recording studio (his father's legacy is larger). Thankfully, a few of his public performances have begun to emerge, both on video and on cd, more often than not to complement the handful of studio recordings he left, done mostly for DG, rather than revealing new material, as research over the internet on his performances in concert halls and opera houses of many countries will yield a surprisingly narrow repertoire