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Corresponding with Carlos: A Biography of Carlos Kleiber de Charles Barber

Corresponding with Carlos: A Biography of Carlos Kleiber

Autor Charles Barber
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 26 dec 2013

În cele 365 de pagini ale volumului, cititorul va descoperi o structură narativă echilibrată, unde cele 29 de ilustrații și fotografii alb-negru punctează vizual o analiză biografică densă și fascinantă. Considerăm că Corresponding with Carlos depășește formatul unei biografii convenționale, fiind rezultatul unei prietenii neașteptate, purtate prin corespondență timp de un deceniu și jumătate, între un student la Stanford și unul dintre cei mai enigmatici dirijori ai secolului XX. Subliniem modul în care Charles Barber reușește să pătrundă în universul intim al unui artist care, deși a realizat doar 12 înregistrări în întreaga carieră, a lăsat o amprentă indelebilă asupra muzicii clasice.

Experiența lecturii este una senzorială, autorul reușind să transpună în cuvinte pasiunea și energia pe care Kleiber le emana pe podium. Tonul este erudit, dar presărat cu umorul ludic al dirijorului, demontând mitul geniului inaccesibil. Complementar volumului The Letters of Arturo Toscanini din aceeași sferă a marilor maeștri ai baghetei, lucrarea de față oferă o perspectivă diferită prin prisma relației personale, aproape mentorale, dintre biograf și subiect. În timp ce scrisorile lui Toscanini documentează o epocă întreagă, corespondența lui Kleiber se concentrează pe perfecționismul tehnic și pe o estetică muzicală introspectivă.

În contextul operei sale, Charles Barber demonstrează aceeași rigoare a cercetării pe care am observat-o în Lost in the Stars: The Forgotten Musical Life of Alexander Siloti, însă aici abordarea este mult mai personală. Dacă în alte lucrări precum In the Blood sau Comfortably Numb autorul explorează teme sociale sau invenții tehnice, în Corresponding with Carlos el revine la marea sa pasiune, muzica, oferind o resursă esențială pentru înțelegerea modului în care un dirijor transformă o partitură într-o experiență transcendentă.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781442231177
ISBN-10: 1442231173
Pagini: 365
Ilustrații: 1 b/w illustrations; 28 b/w photos;
Dimensiuni: 152 x 234 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.62 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Rowman & Littlefield
Locul publicării:New York, United States

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte oricărui meloman care dorește să înțeleagă misterul din spatele unui geniu al muzicii clasice. Cititorul câștigă acces la gândirea intimă a lui Carlos Kleiber, învățând despre rigoarea tehnică și filozofia sa artistică. Este un omagiu adus perfecționismului, ideal pentru cei care apreciază biografiile documentate prin surse primare inedite și doresc să descopere omul din spatele legendei.

Despre autor

Charles Barber este un autor versatil și director artistic al City Opera Vancouver, cu o carieră marcată de explorarea biografiilor muzicale și a studiilor culturale. Deținând titlul de profesor asistent de istoria artei la Universitatea Notre Dame, Barber îmbină rigoarea academică cu o înțelegere profundă a practicii muzicale. Printre lucrările sale notabile se numără biografia lui Alexander Siloti și studii de impact social precum „Comfortably Numb”. Expertiza sa în dirijat și relația personală cu Carlos Kleiber i-au permis să scrie prima biografie majoră în limba engleză a acestui mare dirijor, devenind o voce autoritară în cercetarea performanței muzicale moderne.

Descriere

Carlos Kleiber (1930-2004) was the greatest conductor of his generation. His reputation is legendary, and yet astonishingly, in his five decades on the podium, he conducted only 89 concerts, some 600 opera performances, and produced 12 recordings. How did someone who worked so little compared to his peers achieve so much?

Between his relatively small output and well-known aversion to publicity, many came to regard Kleiber as reclusive and remote, bordering on unapproachable. But in 1989 a conducting student at Stanford University wrote him a letter, and an unusual thing occurred: the world-renowned conductor replied. And so began a 15-year correspondence, study, and friendship by mail.

Drawing heavily on this decade-and-a-half exchange, Corresponding with Carlos is the first English-language biography of Kleiber ever written. Charles Barber offers unique insights into how Kleiber worked based on their long and detailed correspondence. This biography by one friend of another considers, among other matters, Kleiber's singular aesthetic, his playful and often erudite sense of humor, his reputation for perfectionism, his much-studied baton technique, and the famous concert and opera performances he conducted.

Comic and compelling, Corresponding with Carlos explores the great conductor's musical lineage and the contemporary contexts in which he worked. It repudiates myths that inevitably crop up around genius and reflects on Kleiber's contribution to modern musical performance. This biography is ideal for musicians, scholars, and anyone with a special love of the great classical music tradition.

Recenzii

There's much, much more to Kleiber than the myth-making. At least there is now, thanks to Charles Barber's astonishing new book, Corresponding with Carlos: A Biography of Carlos Kleiber. Charles had a unique relationship with Kleiber. As a conducting student at Stanford University, with dazzling boldness and naivety, he wrote to Kleiber out of the blue and said he wanted to study with him. The key was Barber's use of humour and irony to attempt to elicit a response from Kleiber - it worked. Barber never formally became a student of Kleiber's (nobody ever did), but from 1989 until the maestro's death, he corresponded with the supposedly unknowable Carlos, and as well as vivid account of Kleiber's life, Barber's book publishes pretty well the complete letters he received. And they're a revelation. Kleiber proves as virtuosically funny and self-deprecating as he was incandescent on the podium....Barber's book does more than any other I know to simultaneously reveal the truth behind the Kleiber myths and to illuminate the deeper mystery of how his recordings and films continue to have such a talismanic power. This is a brilliant summary of Kleiber's way of making music.
Barber is artistic director of City Opera Vancouver, with a longstanding, busy career in California music life, including contributions to Classical Voice. Corresponding With Carlos: A Biography of Carlos Kleiber offers unique insights into how Kleiber worked. This biography considers his singular aesthetic, his playful and often erudite sense of humor, his reputation for perfectionism, his much-studied baton technique, and the famous concert and opera performances he conducted. It explores the great conductor's musical lineage and the contemporary contexts in which he worked.
Once the book turns from biographical sketch to lively correspondence, we get the thrill of reading-hearing-the voice of Carlos Kleiber, and all is light.
Charles Barber's book on Carlos Kleiber is fascinating, remarquable and unexpected....Rich in details....it contains unique jewels as one can appreciate Kleiber's encyclopedic knowledge....While Charles Barber's book is comprehensive, it is easy to read and the author fascination and respect is palpable at every page....This is probably the musical book of the year.
Charles Barber's Corresponding with Carlos: A Biography of Carlos Kleiberrepresents an admiring younger conductor's efforts, begun during his graduate-student days, to draw out a brilliant but eccentric and reclusive maestro through multiple layers of correspondence.
This is mainly a book so fascinating that for once the 'impossible to put down' cliché is appropriate. Charles Barber was, in 1989, a young music teacher and conductor who sent a short letter to Kleiber, and to his amazement received a reply a few days later. He wanted to be Kleiber's student, but there could be no question of that. Instead, they became frequent correspondents, and all of Kleiber's letters concerning music are published here, with enough of Barber's to make the exchanges intelligible..What makes Kleiber's correspondence with Barber especially interesting is that Barber regularly sent Kleiber video cassettes of the great conductors, eliciting a deluge of comments on their style, greatness (or weaknesses), and their music. Kleiber's criticism alternates with his commentary on his own slender repertoire and his growing distaste for conducting..The first 180 pages are devoted to a biographical sketch, with many quotations from letters: illuminating, but I doubt whether many readers will be able to resist the temptation to leap ahead to the epistolary section.
As a musician and old Kleiber fan, one cannot resist the temptation to whole-heartedly recommend this book.
'An artist par excellence', and 'creativity par exellence' - those are the definitions that come to mind when one thinks of Carlos Kleiber. Each time he conducted, it seemed that the music was being created anew that very moment in all its greatness, beauty and freshness. How wonderful that now we have a book about this genius. Bravo and many heartfelt thanks to Dr. Charles Barber for his work!
Having heard most of the world's best conductors in the last 35 years, I can safely say that none brought so much passion, energy and exquisite musicality and beauty to their work as did Carlos Kleiber. La Bohéme and Der Rosenkavalier under his baton at the Met will remain among my most treasured memories. In this fascinating work Charles Barber offers a rare glimpse into the enigma that was Carlos Kleiber.