Post by mcginn on Jul 14, 2011 13:49:33 GMT -5
NOTE ADDED JUNE 18, 2013:
Unfortunately, the video clip referenced in the following original message has now been removed. If you click on the link I provided below, you will get a message stating "Sorry, this video is private." I regret that this has happened. Probably someone transmitted a copyright claim to YouTube.
RM
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Friends,
Last week I discovered a marvellous treat. The original European TV footage of CK conducting the 1989 Neujahrskonzert -- with commentary auf deutsch on each piece -- has been uploaded on YouTube. It contains much more footage than was previously available on the commercial DVD release.
In particular, check out what happens during the applause at the end. The commercial DVD cut off the video and audio a few seconds after the end of the "Radetzky-Marsch." However, this wonderful upload enables us to see what happened in full detail.
First was the initial storm of applause right after the end of the "Radetzsky" and before Carlos left the stage for the first time. Then something interesting happened that can be seen only in the new upload. After bowing to the audience Carlos stepped down from the podium, went to each of the first-chair string players, shook hands, and said something to each. At this point we get an excellent shot of a woman, wearing what looks like a brown-fur pillbox hat. She looks like Hillary Clinton's twin sister. (F.y.i., she is in one of the seats close to the stage on the side where Carlos enters and leaves the stage.) She is standing and applauding vigorously. This woman was fascinated with Carlos' conducting style and focused on him with rapt attention throughout the concert. For years I 've wondered who she is. Did she know Carlos personally? By any chance, do any of you know anything about who this woman is?
Then FIVE curtain calls ensued. For the first one, the WPO again remained seated so that Carlos would get all the applause. In fact many of them applauded Carlos along with the audience, hitting their music stands with their bows in the time-honored manner. Carlos was evidently surprised and a little embarrassed by the rhapsodic reception, and after reluctantly accepting it he goes off stage slightly shaking his head.
On the second curtain call, the musicians do stand with him, but here we see Carlos face them and make his familiar gesture of appreciation: hands clasped, held waist high, and slightly extended to the orchestra. He does that twice.
The WPO finally leaves the stage after the fourth curtain call. However, even after it leaves the stage, the audience keeps up its fervent applause and shouts of "bravo!", thereby inducing Carlos to come back for yet another bow, THIS TIME ON AN OTHERWISE EMPTY STAGE! You can see this if you look closely right at the end of the video clip as the credits are rolling across the screen. I have never seen that occur, before or since; A TRUE SOLO BOW FOR AN ORCHESTRA CONDUCTOR. Since it is clear throughout the concert that Carlos was a bit embarrassed over the extremely effusive applause he was getting, I am surprised-bordering-on-shocked -- although delighted -- that he actually came out for a solo bow.
Here, then, is the URL for the January 1, 1989, 3Sat/ORF live TV transmission:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UvaL4NwqEM
Although the clip is only in 360p, the audio and video are of surprisingly high quality. I listened to the entire concert on Bose noise-cancelling QC-2 earphones plugged into my Apple MacBook Pro; the sound was magnificent, including good base response. I heard many subtleties in the performance that had escaped me during previous auditions of the commercial DVD.
Enjoy!
All the best,
Robert McGinn
Founder and Editor
www.carlos-kleiber.com
Unfortunately, the video clip referenced in the following original message has now been removed. If you click on the link I provided below, you will get a message stating "Sorry, this video is private." I regret that this has happened. Probably someone transmitted a copyright claim to YouTube.
RM
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
Friends,
Last week I discovered a marvellous treat. The original European TV footage of CK conducting the 1989 Neujahrskonzert -- with commentary auf deutsch on each piece -- has been uploaded on YouTube. It contains much more footage than was previously available on the commercial DVD release.
In particular, check out what happens during the applause at the end. The commercial DVD cut off the video and audio a few seconds after the end of the "Radetzky-Marsch." However, this wonderful upload enables us to see what happened in full detail.
First was the initial storm of applause right after the end of the "Radetzsky" and before Carlos left the stage for the first time. Then something interesting happened that can be seen only in the new upload. After bowing to the audience Carlos stepped down from the podium, went to each of the first-chair string players, shook hands, and said something to each. At this point we get an excellent shot of a woman, wearing what looks like a brown-fur pillbox hat. She looks like Hillary Clinton's twin sister. (F.y.i., she is in one of the seats close to the stage on the side where Carlos enters and leaves the stage.) She is standing and applauding vigorously. This woman was fascinated with Carlos' conducting style and focused on him with rapt attention throughout the concert. For years I 've wondered who she is. Did she know Carlos personally? By any chance, do any of you know anything about who this woman is?
Then FIVE curtain calls ensued. For the first one, the WPO again remained seated so that Carlos would get all the applause. In fact many of them applauded Carlos along with the audience, hitting their music stands with their bows in the time-honored manner. Carlos was evidently surprised and a little embarrassed by the rhapsodic reception, and after reluctantly accepting it he goes off stage slightly shaking his head.
On the second curtain call, the musicians do stand with him, but here we see Carlos face them and make his familiar gesture of appreciation: hands clasped, held waist high, and slightly extended to the orchestra. He does that twice.
The WPO finally leaves the stage after the fourth curtain call. However, even after it leaves the stage, the audience keeps up its fervent applause and shouts of "bravo!", thereby inducing Carlos to come back for yet another bow, THIS TIME ON AN OTHERWISE EMPTY STAGE! You can see this if you look closely right at the end of the video clip as the credits are rolling across the screen. I have never seen that occur, before or since; A TRUE SOLO BOW FOR AN ORCHESTRA CONDUCTOR. Since it is clear throughout the concert that Carlos was a bit embarrassed over the extremely effusive applause he was getting, I am surprised-bordering-on-shocked -- although delighted -- that he actually came out for a solo bow.
Here, then, is the URL for the January 1, 1989, 3Sat/ORF live TV transmission:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UvaL4NwqEM
Although the clip is only in 360p, the audio and video are of surprisingly high quality. I listened to the entire concert on Bose noise-cancelling QC-2 earphones plugged into my Apple MacBook Pro; the sound was magnificent, including good base response. I heard many subtleties in the performance that had escaped me during previous auditions of the commercial DVD.
Enjoy!
All the best,
Robert McGinn
Founder and Editor
www.carlos-kleiber.com
