DVD Video, Sergiu Celibidache (conductor)
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Celibidache makes the most of Prokofiev's balletic moments, and has a keen sense of pacing and balance in Strauss. The sound could be more opulent, both from the orchestra, and as recorded. —
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March to the Scaffold' may be slow, but this live performance, unfussily filmed, shows Celibidache moulding detail of balance and rubato to great effect. The sound is dry, and there are no... —
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Music in the Air
A History of Classical Music on Television
Featuring Glenn Gould, Herbert von Karajan, Leonard Bernstein, Anna Netrebko, Igor Stravinsky, Arturo Toscanini, Pierre Boulez, Sergiu Celibidache, Francis Poulenc, Luciano Pavarotti, Plácido Domingo, José Carreras, Jonas Kaufmann, Franz Welser-Möst
Perhaps the more interesting television is found in the rarer moments of observation: of Stravinsky using facial expressions to conduct his Petrushka, or Yan Pascal Tortelier totally immersing... —
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Firm architecture, steadfast belief, sober conducting, no added rhetoric: these are the star qualities in Sergiu Celibidache's Bruckner —
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Even with a reduced orchestra, Celibidache creates a full sound here. But there's also some energetic and precise phrasing, lightness in the fast movements, and obvious enjoyment from a beaming... —
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Celibidache in St. Florian
A Film by Jan Schmidt-Garre
Margaret Price, Doris Soffel, Peter Straka, Matthias Hölle & Hans Sotin
Munich Philharmonic & Munich Philharmonic Choir, Sergiu Celibidache
this is a conducting masterclass at a level of detail and insight that is rarely permitted today. —
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More spiritual, no-frills Brucnker from the Zen Buddhist conductor. The slow movement is lit with fervour, while the finale's last pages open heaven's doors. —
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Sergiu Celibidache's Bruckner is often monumental. It is also revelatory in a way no other Bruckner conductor
equals. Celibidache conducts these great symphonies as if he were King Lear himself,... —
