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See Terms & Conditions for p&p rates. | |  | Celibidache conducts BrucknerSymphonies Nos. 6 - 8 and 4
3 DVDs and 2 bonus CDs Picture format: 16:9 Playing time: 4hrs 13mins (DVDs); 1hr 24mins (CDs) | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Recorded live at Philharmonie Berlin, 1992
EuroArts is proud to present the only available concert video recording with the Berliner Philharmoniker on DVD. Classified as EuroArts "Recorded Excellence", with high historical value. A new release from the series of Metropolitan Munich programs of Sergiu Celibidache (11. July 1912 – 14. August 1996) for his 100th Anniversary. For the first time after 37 years, in 1992, Maestro Celibidache returned to the podium of the Berliner Philharmoniker for a reconciliatory concert. This was to be his last concert with the Berliner Philharmoniker. To maximise the artistic impact of this momentous occasion, the video assets have been restored and upscaled from 4:3 to 16:9. The DVD Disc includes the Documentary ‘The Triumphant Return’ directed by Wolfgang Becker: The film documents the maestro Celibidache’s reunion with the Berliner Philharmoniker after 38 years, and includes extensive footage from the rehearsals of Bruckner’s Symphony No. 7 and interviews with former orchestra members. Picture format DVD: NTSC 16:9 Sound formats DVD: PCM Stereo Region code: all Booklet notes: English, German, French Runnning time: 144 mins (90 mins Concert + 54 mins Documentary) “An initial session with these performances confirms that among the most striking aspects of Sergiu Celibidache's Bruckner is its tendency towards extreme breadth; but, as the conductor himself suggests in an interview featured alongside the Fourth Symphony, other considerations are of equal if not more importance.” Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2012 | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Live Recording from The Herkulessaal In Munich, 1983
The Romanian conductor Sergiu Celibidache (1912-96) was one of the most adamant personalities in the music world. He rehearsed three times as much as other conductors and avoided making recordings because he believed they were a false representation his musical intentions. This concert from the Herkulessaal in Munich captures one of the rare occasions on which he consented to a recording being made. He conducts the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra with Anton Bruckner’s “Romantic” Symphony No. 4 in E flat major. SPECIAL FEATURE: Interview with Sergiu Celibidache about conducting Bruckner’s Symphony No. 4. Sound Formats: PCM Stereo, D D 5.1 Picture Format: 4:3 DVD Format: DVD 9, NTSC Languages (bonus): FR (Original Version), GB, DE Running Time: 82 mins + 40 mins (bonus) FSK: 0 “Firm architecture, steadfast belief, sober conducting, no added rhetoric: these are the star qualities in Sergiu Celibidache's Bruckner” BBC Music Magazine, December 2012 **** | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Sergiu Celibidache
This box contains five splendid productions of Sergiu Celibidache (28 June1912 – 14. August 1996) for his 100th Anniversary. He was one of the most charismatic, talented and fascinating conductors of all time; his profound knowledge of instrumental frequencies and acoustic science made him a genius of sound. The five DVD-titles in this magnificent box-set present him conducting some of the most beloved pieces in the world, in concert and in valuable, rarely-seen rehearsal footage. He is joined by Daniel Barenboim (who dubbed him ‘one of the greatest musicians I ever encountered’), Hans Kalafusz, the Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart des SWR, and his beloved Münchner Philharmoniker, in a illuminating and moving set of performances. Highly acclaimed, fascinating and dazzling productions - A real must-have! Picture format: NTSC 4:3 ∙ Region code: 0 ∙ German FSK: 0 Sound Formats: DVD 1,2&5: PCM Stereo, DVD 3: PCM Mono, DVD 4: DD 2.0 Booklet Notes: GB, D, F ∙ Subtitles: DVD 3&5 GB, D, F, (DVD 5: + E) Running Time: 511 mins (DVD1 81 mins; DVD2 111 mins; DVD3 114 mins; DVD4 101 mins; DVD5 104mins) “admirers will find much to interest them...It’s notable for the richness of Celibidache’s verbal pointers...the longish Strauss rehearsal will merit a place on your shelf. It is an interesting character study - of control, relaxation, terseness and more floridly encouraging praise. Psychologically it’s a rewarding half an hour plus - and the performance shows the translation of those ideas and ideals in fine fashion.” MusicWeb International, November 2012 | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Barenboim plays Schumann & Tchaikovsky
A new release of the series of Metropolitan Munich programs. Today Daniel Barenboim is internationally recognized and revered as an orchestral and operatic conductor, pianist, and a musical ambassador and also as a humanitarian. Partnering him is the remarkable conductor Sergiu Celibidache. “He was one of the greatest musicians I ever encountered”, says Barenboim. Sergiu Celibidache has been called a musical giant, a magician, a brilliant lion-tamer and an enfant terrible of classical music. He was a legend in his own lifetime, mesmerizing orchestras audiences and critics with his intensity and brilliance. Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No.1 is one of the most popular of his compositions and among the best known of all piano concerti. The Schumann concerto is no less influential with its influence heard in Grieg’s Piano Concerto. Both works show Barenboim at his consummate best. Picture format DVD: NTSC 4:3 Sounds formats DVD: PCM Stereo Region code: 0 Booklet notes: English, German, French Runnning time: 81 mins “These 1991 performances exchange surface excitement for a poetic probing of the music's deeper undercurrents, with spellbinding results. A triumph.” BBC Music Magazine, April 2012 ***** “every bit as compelling as these starry names might suggest. Speeds are generally on the stately side, but the adrenalin count and musical intensity is on such a high setting that I can't imagine anyone even noticing.” International Record Review, June 2012 | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5
‘He seemed to have the knack of delving deep into the psychology of individual members of the orchestra, and of extracting from them playing of an almost transcendental nature.’ Misha Donat 1969 Turin recording.
PICTURE FORMAT: 4:3
LENGTH: 77 Mins
SOUND: LPCM MONO
SUBTITLES: N/A
“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.” BBC Music Magazine, September 2007 *** | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Celibidache conducts Mozart
PICTURE FORMAT: 4:3
LENGTH: 79 Mins
SOUND: LPCM MONO
SUBTITLES: N/A
“His intense, finely balanced and deeply felt interpretations made him one of the greatest names in twentieth century orchestral conducting. Above all, he was a superb technician.” All Music Guide “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 conductor.” BBC Music Magazine, September 2007 *** | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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1969 Turin recording.
Includes 32-page booklet in three languages, with a newly-commissioned essay from Misha Donat on the genius of Celibidache.
PICTURE FORMAT: 4:3
LENGTH: 58 Mins
SOUND: LPCM MONO
SUBTITLES: N/A
“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 extras.” BBC Music Magazine, September 2007 **** “1969 is long enough ago in the history of sound and vision to feel primitive compared to today's technology, but Opus Arte has buffed up this black-and-white Italian TV original to some purpose. As has Maestro Celibidache Turin's RAI orchestra, whose every section shows off the care of his characteristically detailed rehearsal. It translates into a reading whose tempi and dynamics have been tailored with the care of a wonderful listener to the band and the hall at hand.
This Fantastique is not an especially dramatic or grandstanding performance – only the final pages of the 'Witches' Round' put the players under stress. But it is one where everyone has time and space to play with comfort and expression, to live fully in the rits of Celibidache's graceful, rather miniaturist waltz, to enjoy the pulsing, guitar-like accompaniments as the idéefixe gets under way for the first time in 'Passions', or to dig in with force (but never crudity) to a serious, steady 'March to the Scaffold'.
As an interpretation though per se this performance remains, intentionally perhaps, on the page, with the notes and the music viewed through an essentially 20th-century brain, as played smoothly by a 'modern' orchestra. Celibidache is totally uninterested in the dirtiness of some of Berlioz's bass and brass writing, or the Weber-like shrieks of the high wind, or the orchestral opera going on within the symphony.
A stylish, detailed note by Misha Donat and sensitive work by RAI's camera director – following the score's high-points without indulging in visual ping-pong – add to the value of a release that promises to be the first of a series.” Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 “…Opus Arte has buffed up this black-and-white Italian TV original to some purpose. As has Maestro Celibidache Turin's RAI orchestra, whose very section shows off the care of his characteristically detailed rehearsal. It translates into a reading whose tempi and dynamics have been tailored with the care of a wonderful listener to the band and the hall at hand.” Gramophone Magazine, September 2007 | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | 1969 Turin recording
Includes 32-page booklet in three languages, with a newly-commissioned essay from Misha Donat on the genius of Celibidache.
PICTURE FORMAT: 4:3
LENGTH: 62 Mins
SOUND: LPCM MONO
SUBTITLES: N/A
“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, for in every bar of Bruckner's scores he scales heights of pathos and emotion most other conductors simply do not see in Bruckner's writing.” MusicWeb International | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Live Recording from The Gasteig, Munich 1985
Maestro Sergiu Celibidache (1912–1996) was one of the most uncompromising figures in the music world, demanding three times as much rehearsal time as other conductors and with an ardent dislike of making recordings because he feared they misrepresented his musical intentions. He agreed to set aside his long-held antipathy to recordings of his work to enable the cameras to capture this concert from the Philharmonie in Munich, in which he conducts the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra. “Sergiu Celibidache demands unheard-of amounts of orchestral rehearsal time and obviously knows what he wants to do with it. He has an extraordinary ear for orchestral detail. He has a highly developed ... technique for maintaining spacious tempos. He understands, as Herbert von Karajan and Carlos Kleiber and a few other conductors do, that it is advantageous to play softly a lot of the time if you want a wide palette of expression and tonal beauty. He has a charismatic hold over his orchestra and his admirers.” The New York Times Sound Format: PCM Stereo, Dolby Digital 5.1 Picture Format: 4:3 DVD Format: DVD 9, NTSC Running Time: 90 mins FSK: 0 “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.” BBC Music Magazine, December 2012 **** | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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