Final trio

[@Johnny1206]

Kleiber is one of the best conductors in the History of Music and he is almost unmatched in Strauss! This whole performance is perfect.

[@Chishannicon]

The music/singing in this video is absolutely gorgeous...

[@juancar988]

The best version from "the rosenkavalier" of Carlos Kleiber. I love it so much!!! Of course i have this dvd at home.

[@SMMHELDENTENOR]

felicity lott is SO MOVING...AMAZING reading....

[@berndhuebel5665]

How wonderful! Viele Grüße from the Münsterland in Northwestern Germany, Bernd.

[@ceb2633]

My Pearly Gates music! Incredible!

[@spn1007]

The video from Covent Garden 1981 w/ Barbara Bonney (she has aged quite well!) and Te kanawa is available on DVD. It's a gordeous production. I highly recommend it. Conducted by Solti and designed/directed by John Schlesinger. It was Te Kanawa's first Marschallin at C.G.

[@knottyknot]

This is heavenly. Forget those self-righteous pseudo-musicologists.

[@DagAndersEriks1]

Goosebumps all over!

[@Salamon2]

I think the "abrupt" tempo change actually flows and is the culmination of all the buildup over the past measures before it. That's what I'm sure Strauss intended, and I'm actually not disturbed by it at all. I rather quite like it infact!

[@AmiJurgl]

Was fuer einen Katzenjammer der Strauss hat uns hintergelassen!

[@muslit]

@nickfox2 I do feel Kleiber pushes to hard. He's actually around quarter=96 at figure 292 (quarter=86). My hunch was that Strauss' faster tempo marking was more for the endurance of the voices than for anything else. Today sopranos have no problem navigating this section at a slower pace. Even with a slight accelerando leading to 292, most conductors take this slower than Strauss' tempo indications.

[@SymphonikerHamburg]

Eine der größten Sopranistinnen aller Zeiten! Am 27. Januar ist sie zu Gast in der Laeiszhalle in Hamburg - mit Maestro Tate am Piano. Einmalig! hamburgersymphoniker.de/artikel-445-st-konzertdetails-282.htm

[@davidpark5840]

Ich gehe davon aus, dass Barbara Bonney nur die einzige Sopranistin in diesem Jahrhundert ist, die sich mit Lucia Popp messen kann.

[@AmiJurgl]

Hast recht amonsaro! Meine entschuldigungen! (I was having a bad hair day)

[@Gigglingatagas]

When Bonney really gets the voice open up top, it's incomparable - particularly as Sophie. The voice is so full of light. Dame Lott is a little...underpowered as the Marschallin, for my taste.

[@James_Bowie]

Trio, so dopey camera director shows 2 singers for majority of the time. Video FAIL. Singing glorious.