Just up: Carlos Kleiber’s lost Beethoven 7th

Just up: Carlos Kleiber’s lost Beethoven 7th

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norman lebrecht

August 09, 2022

An off-air recording has turned up of Carlos Kleiber conducting the London Symphony Orchestra at La Scala Milan in 1981.

This was Kleiber’s last encounter with a London orchestra. One bad review in (I think) the Guardian led to a boycott of London bands.

The recording is only partial.

Listen to it quickly before the LSO have it taken down.

Some of the phrasing and dynamics here are spectacular.

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