Source: Orfeo Beethoven Symphonie NR. 4 Live Recording (March 1984) Bayerisches Staatsorchester Carlos Kleiber C100841B.

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CD booklet:

For me, okaying a recording is normally a horror. But the Bavarian State Orchestra's playing made the approval of this live recording my very own pleasure. We neither could nor wanted to use any cosmetics or make even the most minute corrections in this aural 'snapshot' of a performance. For any petty critics we have an alibi: A benefit publication for the Prinzregententheater and a live performance. But for those who have an ear for vitality there are things here that no orchestra can play for you as eagerly and pertly or as inspired and delightfully as this orchestra on that day. Many thanks! Carlos Kleiber

... Carlos Kleiber seemed to have managed effortlessly with that 'quadrature of the circle' that make all Mozart and Beethoven interpretations so difficult. The broad outline, the festive tone, the unerring tempo were always present as should be the case in symphonics, and at the same time, there was the indulgence in individual aspects, in blossomy particulars. We witnessed the reconciliation between the demands of the parts and the requisites of the whole, something that could never be achieved socially and about which so much has been philosophized: finally fulfilled in the realm of Beethoven's art as understood by Kleiber! An unforgettable Fourth ... Joachim Kaiser (Translation: Richard Sterling)