Berlioz Symphony Fantastique (Opus Arte)

The conductor Sergiu Celibidache was a legend in his own lifetime, mesmerising orchestras with his intensity and brilliance, both in rehearsals and in performances -- which were always conducted from memory. In this recording, he takes on Berlioz's passionate autobiographical monument to obsessive and unrequited love.

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[congrang]

you should go to an audition of the Munich philharmonic, see whether they will accept you, you idiot

[jacksogh]

I;ve never heard such a tempo for this movement as wonderful and fitting as Celibidache's! This truly is a march to the scaffold.

[vvsivakumar]

I can understand why someone would want to drag his feet if he was being taken to the scaffold but.... surely ....this is hardly a march ?! Far far too slow a tempo with all due respect to the great Celi . Or perhaps this is just another example of his famous eccentricites .

[Lonegan63]

The orchestra is Sinfonica della Rai de Turin

[nelassov]

What's the orchestra ? Stuttgart ? French radio orchestra ? Il commencait déjà à adopter des tempi très lents !

[minieinstein319]

The tempo is fitting. They aren't rehearsing.

[rec12573]

This is the Celibidache's sound.

[MahlerTitan]

he probably will be denied at the door, since he donesn't even know how to play ANY instrument! But, he does have a critic's mouth and a donkey's intelligence for insulting other professionals.

[skybart]

Only an amateur orchestra would have to rehearse at this tempo!

[Sinneo91]

Listen to his Pictures at an Exhibition, It sounds the same.