Sergiu Celibidache in Rehearsal with London Symphony Orchestra. G
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yM-cPpPKKQ
Sergiu Celibidache Maestro furioso 2012
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hG-biP9kwjo
Sergiu Celibidache
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Obituary: Sergiu Celibidache
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-sergiu-celibidache-1309910.html
Among the most idiosyncratic of orchestral conductors,
Sergiu Celibidache was a rare figure in Britain, where his visits in the
past 40 years can be counted on the fingers of one hand. Always a
perfectionist, he priced himself beyond most orchestral budgets by his demands
for rehearsal time, requiring a minimum of five or six sessions for any
programme, and for similar reasons he restricted his association with
orchestras with whom he was not familiar.
Yet his meticulous preparation made possible a degree of
instinctive insight when it came to performance that could achieve powerful
conviction. Documentary evidence of this came recently to hand with an
hour-long video, commercially issued in Britain in 1992, of which over half is
devoted to the conductor's rehearsal session with the Munich Philharmonic
Orchestra for the performance of Prokofiev's "Classical" Symphony
that follows thereafter.
Working as usual without a score for music he already knew
down to the smallest detail, and letting the orchestra leader give any
necessary cues, he is seen to smile and joke with the players (in German, of
course; English subtitles are added) to illuminate his batonless gestures. His
ultra-sensitive ears fasten on the slightest deviation from his intentions, and
he sings the phrase as he wanted it. Yet the performance which follows, so
assiduously prepared, comes across with astonishing freshness and apparent
spontaneity.
He once said that the quality of an orchestra governed the
number of rehearsals he needed, and the better the orchestra the more he
rehearsed it, because the possibilities were greater. "There is no miracle
in music," he declared, "only work." On occasion he did go too
far, once so exacerbating a Rome
orchestra in a particularly trying session that the players threw their music
at him, bringing an abrupt cancellation of the engagement and a permanent rift.
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