Ravel Bolero conducted by Sergiu Celibidache

[procspec]

It is definitely the best Bolero performance. Fantastic.

[crazyhorse2100]

Wonderful!!!!!!Thank you!!!!

[TheDWM90]

i am proud to be born in romania because of him

[robertslistening]

This comes off more like a royal procession, than something like a victorious calvary riding through the streets. A tad too slow. This piece should also show off each instrument group. Andre Rieu does this. I like the way each instrument group get to show their stuff in his version. It's a simple repeating melody and they take turns...like...now it's my turn to show what I can contribute to this piece. This was okay, but I think he missed some of the intent of the piece.

[sgabriel]

@robertslistening I agree. Why? Not because I consider myself superior to "The Great Celibidache", but because I consider Ravel's tempo more appropriate to Ravel's piece than Celibidache's.

[RecCreatiOnOfficial]

Bravoooooooooooooooooooooooooo­oo

[cristianilisiu]

Bravo Maestre.

[qhubbles]

:S don't like it... but don't worry, i don't like the Karajan's version either! xD

[aragrengia1980]

is that Bill Gates playing the snare drum? :P

[lipkinasl]

It's so slowwwwwwww, interesting thought, totally different balance on the harmonies.

[procspec]

Да, еще раз повторю, это было фантастическое выступление. Сергу мой кумир.

[procspec]

Fantastic performance.

[SelenaAndDemiLover1]

Breathtaking, apoteosic!!!!

[MultiTyrannosaurus]

Absolut KONGENIAL!

[cornellie1953]

EXCEPTIONAL!

cuvintele sunt de prisos.

[luizlapa]

maravilha...

[mao6298]

大師 出手 果然不凡 來過一次台灣 沒趕上去看啦

[danybrig]

Immenso Celibidache!!!

[mao6298]

@danybrig 

[johnny41chan]

It is great but the duration is too short. Thank you for sharing.

[loontjuhhh13]

echt prachtig



[edgluhrs]

There's currently a video up of Celi conducting this in 1971, in a much quicker tempo. His facial expressions in that one are priceless!

[BeowulfVids]

We're pkaying this in marching band for our show, though we are doing it twice as fast as this, and It's Carmen and Bolero put together.

[Gheorgyi]

@BeowulfVids That is, a bastardization of both pieces. Typically american.

[mariusfelix]

@BeowulfVids And won't you be punished for that?

[MultiNihil]

me encanta

[mrsticks28]

I am partial to Bolero at a tempo such as this... a real tension builder. I heard Ravel's Bolero around 1956 with Fritz Reiner conducting... majestic tempo made for a wonderful rendition. There is a version of Bolero by Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra. Listen at the very end; one trumpet player went up on a note. Funny to hear and that they let that go on the recording...

[gsuaza]

Where do I can get the partiture in order to play it in my flaute?

[muslit]

What a total bore. There are countless better renditions.

[cristianilisiu]

Bravo Maestre. We love you.

[wmnwantmefishfearme]

I don't know what you guys are talking about. Alls I know is that this redneck just heard some good music.

[lslight2k8]

I like the way he conducts. Ravel himself would have been horrified but I keep thinking that Bolero is the right theme to make conductors havings people discoverings his music, just the way some seeams to be involved in it.

[plalexx]

@lslight2k8 sunt mandru...

[sam0xin]

thank God there is a little portion of THAT GENIUS - PERFORMANCE...Full version disappears from YouTube..Thank you medicitv ! Do you have an idea if this version released on DVD ? Thanks again.

[bruckner4444]

Genial. Celi no solo es supremo en Bruckner. Para mí este es el mejor Bolero ever...

[herodot2]

And like with Bruckner, he takes Bolero at a much slower seped than everybody else, gets a richness and balance of sound sout of it that at a higher speed is impossible, WHILE BEING ABLE to maintain the music's tension.

Only he could do that.

[Pippin76]

@herodot2 But Celibidache did EVERYTHING slower. That was his shtick.

[koolu99]

GOD speaks!

[easyfizzy]

Celi, maybe the only one that could conduct a real Bolero and not make it a military march like everyone else.

Bolero is slow.

[sam0xin]

Or cartoon-soundtrack...! ! ! Celi's Bolero is T H E BOLERO ! You are MUSICIAN ( even if not...) !

Thank you.

[DrummerMass]

I really don't think so. It gets to unserious.. This is too boring and not good in this tempo with the trumpets carrying the theme about 1:50. Karajan and Barenboim can conduct Bolero.

[PPchopin]

incredible

[armoricano]

¡Majestuoso!

[ZephyrZXA]

Love this song ;D

[sam0xin]

ZephyrZXA this is NOT a SONG ! songs are singing madonna, britnyes & other spearses . THIS IS THE BOLERO ! If you're in love with this...it's time to know its real name.!

[ZephyrZXA]

"1. a short metrical composition intended or adapted for singing, esp. one in rhymed stanzas; a lyric; a ballad."

well, you're right, still i love this

[sam0xin]

Thank you.

[majkapz]

Nádherná hudba a úžasný prednes...skvelí umelci...tlieskam im.../Slovakia/

[frausto092249]

oir esta musica es volver a vivir hay que disfrutarla.

[LardoDiColonnata]

Celibidache was usually slow.

But He always rise the "intensity"...

Just great!

[FFBassooner]

Kinda slow don't you think?

[Glemser]

un fenomen mai puncin cunoscut

greet's from a late Celi's student

[marosigy]

The late maestro is great.

[PISICASALBATICA]

A great conductor and very original , I enjoy watching .Make me proud to be Romanian.

[sabadabaduz]

for him you can be, indeed! (German)

[guilarth]

And also, Dinu Lipatti, Clara Haskil, Radu Lupu... so great romanian artists !