Carlos Kleiber Carlos Kleiber - Complete Recordings on Deutsche Grammophon Boxset

Carlos Kleiber disliked recordings – he once said that "every unproduced record is a good record" – but those he made have naturally come to occupy a special place in recording history.

Deutsche Grammophon had the good fortune to be the label with which this most charismatic of conductors was associated.  Imbued with Kleiber's characteristics of intellectual rigour, passion and perfectionism, the few recordings he did make are among the greatest treasures of the DG catalogue. In 2011, 100 members of his own profession voted Carlos Kleiber 'the greatest conductor of all time,' but he also remains the personification of the genius recluse – Herbert von Karajan used to joke that Kleiber would only conduct when his fridge was empty.

"Kleiber didn't often go into the recording studio, but when he did the results were entirely unforgettable" - BBC Music Magazine

"Mercurial, thrilling accounts of two warhorses from the unique Carlos Kleiber" - Gramophone on CD1 of this limited edition

"Better than any other production... it is impossible not to love" - Diapason (France) on CD4-5 of this limited edition