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[the recordings] are rewarding readings of rigour and intensity from a conductor every music lover should know.
Record Review / David Mellor, Mail on Sunday / 05 September 2004
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. . . a 1978 Schubert "Unfinished" with the Vienna Philharmonic is testimony enough to his genius, the first movement (with repeat) initially poised on a nerve's edge, tremulous and full of energy; the second properly relaxed. Kleiber was one of the few conductors to mark a profound climate change between the two movements, and his benchmark performance contradicts the notion that Schubert's Eighth is a mere torso. It has never sounded more perfectly complete.
Record Review / Rob Cowan, Independent (London) / 06 September 2004
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The musical strengths are easy to list. Each work -- or, in the case of "Tristan", complete scene -- is a living whole. Complex, richly variegated musical arguments emerge like single, soaring spans of melody . . . If you haven't yet discovered Kleiber, don't hesitate.
Record Review / Stephen Johnson, BBC Music Magazine (London) / 01 December 2004
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Faixas
1. 1.Allegro moderato ~Symphony No.8 in B minor, D.759 - "Unfinished"
2. 2.Andante con moto ~Symphony No.8 in B minor, D.759 - "Unfinished"
3. 1.Allegro non troppo ~Symphony No.4 in E minor, Op.98
4. 2.Andante moderato ~Symphony No.4 in E minor, Op.98
5. 3.Allegro giocoso - Poco meno presto - Tempo I ~Symphony No.4 in E minor, Op.98
6. 4.Allegro energico e passionato - Piu allegro ~-Symphony No.4 in E minor, Op.98
7. "Tod und Holle" ~Tristan und Isolde Act3
8. "Mild und leise wie er lachelt" (Isoldes Liebestod) ~Tristan und Isolde Act3