"The problem with Carlos is that once Erich was dead, he saw the entire musical world as a surrogate. When he cancels a concert, he is killing his father, when he conducts a great performance, he is identifying with him". Conductor Carlos Kleiber, "elusive Titan of the podium" and Erich's son, a perfectionist who intensely dislike recordings ("every unproduced record is a good record"), worked only sporadically (sometimes canceling engagements at the last moment), never gave a press interview, never hired a media agent and conducted all his own negotiations for contracts. His recordings are as few as one might expect. Of his recording of Beethoven's 5th, one critic wrote: "It was as if Homer had come back to recite the Iliad". Now, we can admire Kleiber in the "Carlos Kleiber - The Legend" DVD set. →[More:]