Re: Giulini Bruckner bargain from Berkshire

"Steven de Mena" <demenas@xxxxxxxxxxx> appears to have caused the
following letters to be typed in news:vomdnTi2__x62oTeRVn-qQ@xxxxxxxxxxx:

> "Matthew B. Tepper" <oyþ@earthlink.net> wrote in message
>>>> I sit corrected again...the Kleiber Heldenleben was a Sony project and
>>>> it was complete-he just refused to let it be issued. Those who have
>>>> heard it can't for the life of them figure out what he didn't like
>>>> about it. Perhaps it will get an "official" release. I understand it
>>>> clocked in at about 38 minutes-pretty quick though they say it doesn't
>>>> sound rushed.
>>>
>>> The one I have (don't know if it's the same) is c. 39'40", doesn't
>>> sound the least bit rushed, and has superb sound - a performance from
>>> 1993. I can't imagine why he wouldn't want it released either.
>>
>> He was coo-coo? Or maybe somebody at Sony "Classical" rubbed him the
>> wrong way?
>
> More likely the first one.
>
> I remember years ago when I was running a Chicago Symphony syndicated
> broadcast of one his rare live concerts, the host (Norman Pellegrini)
> mentioned that they had hoped to have an interview with Maestro Kleiber
> during the intermission feature but "we were told that he doesn't give
> interviews". I thought it was interesting that they felt it necessary
> to say that.

Could have been Pellegrini's way of saying he was miffed at Kleiber for
treating *him* like that.

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